https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/14546 2026-05-05T17:40:12Z https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/9825 World Health Organization orientation and capacity building meeting on the use of tools and guidelines to scale up health nursing and midwifery service delivery in the context of primary health care renewal : report : workshop attend at the Safari Club Hotel Nairobi, Kenya Moleki, M.M. 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) issues and challenges within existing national health policies and HRH orientations using the available tools / guidelines. 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/9824 The 2009 RCN International Nursing Research Conference : celebrating 50 years of nursing research : looking back, moving forward : report : conference attended in Cardiff, Wales : 24-27 March 2009 Ehlers, Valerie Janet, 1948- 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 for the 2009 conference was ''Celebrating 50 years of nursing research: looking back, moving forward''. This conference, hosted in the Cardiff city hall 24-27 March 2009, was attended by 420 delegates from 22 countries. A keynote address was presented every morning. During the course of the conference six symposia, 60 posters, and more than 200 concurrent papers were presented. Specific issues were also addressed by specialist panels during early morning breakfast sessions, lunch time sessions and late afternoon sessions. It became quite a challenge to decide which sessions to attend every day, with so many concurrent events going on at the same time. 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/9823 Experiences of caregivers of individuals suffering from schizophrenia in rural areas of the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa Mhaule, V.N.; Ntswana-Lebang, M.A. 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 with schizophrenia. In-depth individual interviews were conducted with a purposefully selected sample of twelve caregivers. The Tesch (1990) constant comparative method to analyse content of qualitative data was used for the analysis. Five main categories emerged from the data analysis: emotions; physical burden; lifestyle changes; inadequate support and relationship burden. Themes were extracted from the categories. The results of the study showed that caring for individuals with schizophrenia can put considerable burdens and restrictions on the caregivers. The emotional distress that occurred as a consequence of caring for schizophrenics was compounded by other psychosocial burdens such as, poverty, patients' poor self-care, non-compliance with medication, psychotic episodes, and lack of support by family and community members. Recommendations were made regarding the improvement of health care services to the caregivers and family members with schizophrenia. 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/9822 Job satisfaction and dissatisfaction of professional nurses in Primary Health Care facilities in the Free State Province of South Africa Bester, C.L.; Engelbrecht, M.C. 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 quality of services. However, South African public health services are faced with severe shortages of nurses due to work overload, poor working conditions, uncompetitive remuneration, and inadequate management. In this article, we determine how stressors confronting public sector PHC nurses influence their levels of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction. A total of 534 nurses completed self-administered questionnaires comprising biographical questions, scales assessing job-related stressors and resources, and two open-ended questions focusing on job satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Quantitative data were coded, captured and analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. Qualitative data were analysed using content analysis. The mean scores on quantitative workload indicated that nurses experienced their workload to be very high. The main determinants of job dissatisfaction were workload, limited resources and lack of communication with management. Job satisfaction was mainly attributed to being in a position to help relieve patients' suffering and having a good relationship with managers. A key recommendation relates to the development of a comprehensive human resource management strategy to address staff shortages, staff retention, and the division of labour. 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z