The purpose of this study was to explore the social / cultural perceptions of Ghanaians about women with infertility problems. Audio-taped interviews with nineteen (19) key informants were transcribed and analysed. The ...
Qualitative research was conducted in a particular hospital in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. The researchers explored the emotions which professional nurses experience while caring for HIV / AIDS patients, the ...
The Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery is proud to announce its inclusion in the South African list of 8 approved journals from January 2008. This is a milestone of great importance as the journal (AJNM) will provide ...
The overall aim of the meetings was to contribute to the capacity building of nurses and midwives as frontline health decision makers in accelerating action at country level in addressing Human Resources for Health (HRH) ...
Ehlers, Valerie Janet, 1948-(Department of Advanced Nursing Sciences, Unisa, 2009)
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 ...
The article reports on a research study done at a rural area in Mpumalanga Province. A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual design was followed to investigate the experiences of caregivers of individuals ...
Nurses in South Africa form the backbone of primary health care (PHC) service delivery. Therefore, it is essential that they experience job satisfaction as effort and commitment of staff play a crucial role in determining ...
The emergency treatment of patients with acute chest pain influences the immediate outcomes and the long-term prognosis. The characteristics of each individual experiencing an acute chest pain episode can influence the ...
Cervical cancer is a global health problem and the most common cancer in women living in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Various barriers to cervical screening have been identified. These include cytology based screening. Cervical ...
Breastfeeding is an important resource which includes exclusive breastfeeding (EBF). It provides food, health and care simultaneously. Therefore a descriptive survey was carried out to assess knowledge, attitudes, beliefs ...
Lack of disciplined use of a partograph in the management of labour is a widespread concern. Given the high maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality rate experienced in Africa, appropriate interventions that support ...
In South Africa women are discharged from maternity wards 24 hours after normal deliveries. The result is that postnatal care is provided by family members and grandmothers who are often assisted by traditional birth ...
The purpose of the study was to determine self-perceived competencies of the Nurse Midwife Technicians (NMTs) who completed the two year upgrading programme at the Malawi College of Health Sciences when providing comprehensive ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 : ...
An alternative nursing education system was adopted by Botswana to improve its clinical nursing education, employing preceptorship as a clinical teaching approach. Myrick (2002:154) states that although preceptorship is ...
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 ...
Dinho, A.E.; Van der Merwe, M.M.; Ehlers, V.J.(2009)
A quantitative, explorative, descriptive contextual study was conducted to determine to what extent the malaria control measures proposed by the Tanzanian government had been implemented by parents of children aged 0-5 who ...
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 ...