Perceptions of professional nurses on the impact of shortage of resources for quality patient care in a public hospital: Limpopo Province

Mokoena, Machidi Julia

dc.contributor.advisor	Nkosi, Z. Z.
dc.contributor.author	Mokoena, Machidi Julia
dc.date.accessioned	2017-07-19T12:40:51Z
dc.date.available	2017-07-19T12:40:51Z
dc.date.issued	2017-01
dc.identifier.citation	Mokoena, Machidi Julia (2017) Perceptions of professional nurses on the impact of shortage of resources for quality patient care in a public hospital: Limpopo Province, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22928>
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22928
dc.description	Text in English	en
dc.description.abstract	Professional nurses are regarded as the backbone of the health care system and quality patient care is linked to patient safety.The purpose of the study was to describe and explore the perceptions of professional nurses on impact of shortage of resources for quality patient care. The resources include health professionals, equipment and drugs. The study was conducted in Mankweng hospital which is a public hospital in the Capricorn district in Limpopo Province. Qualitative descriptive exploratory design was used which provided the researcher with in-depth information regarding phenomena under study. Data was collected from ten (10) professional nurses who have 5 to 20 years of nursing experience allocated in medical and surgical wards. Unstructured face-to-face interview was conducted using field notes and audio tape. Data was analysed following Creswell (2014) Tesch method. Five themes and eighteen subthemes emerged from data. The findings revealed that the shortage of health professionals and inadequate resources has a negative impact on provision of quality patient care.	en
dc.format.extent	1 online resource (5 unnumbered pages, vi, 96 pages) : illustrations, 1 map (color)
dc.language.iso	en
dc.subject	Health professionals	en
dc.subject	Impact	en
dc.subject	Perceptions	en
dc.subject	Public hospital	en
dc.subject	Quality patient care	en
dc.subject	Resources	en
dc.subject.ddc	362.1730968256
dc.subject.lcsh	Public hospitals -- South Africa -- Mankweng	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Hospitals -- South Africa -- Mankweng	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Nurse practitioners -- South Africa -- Mankweng -- Attitudes	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Mankweng Hospital	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Medical care -- South Africa -- Mankweng -- Quality control	en
dc.title	Perceptions of professional nurses on the impact of shortage of resources for quality patient care in a public hospital: Limpopo Province	en
dc.type	Dissertation	en
dc.description.department	Health Studies	en
dc.description.degree	M.A. (Health Studies)