Being a mental health worker in Rwanda is very difficult as many endure traumatic stress as a
result of working with trauma survivors and other psychiatric patients. This phenomenon has
been described as Secondary Traumatic ...
This prestigious conference, hosted jointly by the International Council of Women's Health Issues and the University of Pennsylvania, was attended by more than 400 delegates from 22 countries representing 17 different ...
Higher education in developing countries face a particular challenge; half of the world's higher education students are found in developing countries, placing great strain on an already under funded system. Whilst the New ...
The aim of this study was to describe and compare the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) competence of advanced practice student nurses at a medical training college in Kenya, who had undergone two different levels of CPR ...
Nurse educators function in a post-industrial, information and communication technology driven world. They are required to equip student nurses with the competencies to render healthcare in technologically advanced healthcare ...
The convention took place from 31 October to 4 November 2009 at the Indiana Convention Centre in Indianapolis, Indiana. At the convention the global nursing community was represented to share diverse experiences, perspectives ...
The 1st International Military Nursing Conference hosted by the South African Military Health Service (SAMHS) under the command of the Surgeon General (SG) of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), was held in ...
It was a privilege to attend the above conference, and to meet authors and editors from a number of different African countries, universities and institutions concerned with publications. I presented a paper entitled : ...
The joint 20th Asian Conference on Occupational Health (ACOH) and the 5th National Conference on Occupational and Environmental Health was held from 9 to 11 March 2011, in Bangkok, Thailand. The joint conference was hosted ...
This book is based on, but comprises a total revision of its predecessors (Contraception by F. Theron and Contraception: theory and practice by F. Grobler). Most authors are specialist gynaecologists and obstetricians.
Adherence rates of at least 95% are required for optimum viral suppression and the prevention of viral mutation of drug resistant HIV strains, measured by CD4 cell and viral load counts, especially at the beginning of ...
Resuscitation can be visually disturbing and stressful, even to the most experienced of clinical
staff. Allowing family members to remain with patients during resuscitation efforts has sparked
controversy among medical ...
A qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used to explore and describe the experiences of critical care student nurses of clinical accompaniment in open distance learning (ODL) and to interpret the meaning ...
This research sought to develop a palliative care measurement tool that could track and measure the rendering of care by informal caregivers to dying persons across the diversity of South African cultural and religious ...
The objective of this research was to develop and evaluate a set of life-skill techniques designed to prevent premature sexual relations among junior high school learners in Thailand. All participants completed a questionnaire ...
Banda, T.M.; Smith, J.E.; Du Toit, H.S.(Unisa, 2011)
A quantitative, non-experimental, descriptive design was used to investigate the challenges of diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in children under the age of five at 19 primary healthcare (PHC) clinics in the Ethekwini ...
Nurses and midwives throughout Africa face dire consequences of HIVAIDS in their daily lives. Much of Africa's healthcare resources are spent on HIV / AIDS. Worldwide many research reports have been published on HIV / ...
At the first editorial board meeting of 2009, it was decided that the AJNM should strive to publish nine worthwhile articles per issue, and continue to publish two issues per year. Some past issues contained only five ...