The Royal College of Nursing (RCN), a trade union organisation for nurses and midwives from the United Kingdom (UK) hosts an annual International Nursing Research Conference at different venues throughout the UK. The theme ...

Adolescent pregnancies are high-risk obstetric occurrences with far-reaching implications for these mothers' education, employment, general wellbeing and health. Adolescent motherhood could imply lifelong poverty. With ...

Ensuring patients' compliance with treatment to effectively manage hypertension remains a major challenge to public health in the Seychelles. Non-compliance with treatment is the most important single reason for uncontrolled ...

A qualitative, explorative, descriptive and contextual study, using interviews and field notes, investigated the implementation of cervical cancer screening by private medical practitioners in Soshanguve, South Africa. ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the socio-economic status (SES) and geographic differences in occurrence and burden of tropical endemic diseases, as well as the health seeking behaviours of individuals residing ...

The purpose of the study was to survey knowledge, lifestyle risks and screening practices of women living in a resource-poor community in Tshwane, South Africa. Convenience sampling was used to select the sample (N=299) ...

Critically ill patients may be incapable of making decisions, thus forcing their family members to make decisions on their behalf. Intensive care units (ICUs) are a new additions to hospitals in developing countries. The ...

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 ...

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 ...