Prior to 1994, the South African Health Department was characterised by a fragmented health care system, which was largely curative and hospital based, with services planned and managed without community involvement and ...
The study investigated the experiences of remaining nurse tutors at the Free State School of Nursing during the transformation of Nursing Colleges and downsizing of personnel. The study aimed at describing the experiences ...
The study was conducted with the aim of assessing the Saudi Arabian cultural knowledge among the non-Muslim nurses. These nurses work in the obstetric units at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Jeddah ...
Unsafe and unnecessary injections are administered in many developing and transitional countries. Injection device security is recommended in order to improve injection safety. Injection device stock depletions have been ...
Timely management in pre-hospital emergency care enhances the chances of patients' survival or clinical outcomes of an Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS).
In Botswana nurses serve in the frontline of pre-hospital emergency ...
This study analyzed the role of traditional healing as a health care delivery system in the context of a transcultural society. The perspectives, experiences and personal accounts of 90 respondents were assessed with ...
This study identified pregnancy-related challenges encountered by student nurses at SAMHS Nursing College, with an aim of identify factors contributing to student nurses' pregnancies as well as finding ways to deal and ...
Purpose
This research project was an attempt to determine situational aspects of HIV and AIDS among the designated farming communities in the Vhembe and Mopani districts of Limpopo Province. Questions arising from the ...
The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the perceptions of registered
nurses with regard to facilitating the learning of student nurses during clinical
placement.
Focus group interviews with fifteen ...
The study explored the cultural care beliefs, values and attitudes among Shangaans relating
to hypertension.
The study aimed to describe the cultural values, beliefs and practices such as taboos, rituals and ...
Health care service providers in South Africa and elsewhere in the world are increasingly faced with an enormous challenge of modeling their approach to health care to meet the needs and expectations of the diverse societies ...
The purpose of the study was to explore and describe the perceptions of adolescents about sexuality and sexually transmitted infections, which probably contribute towards the high incidence of sexually transmitted infections ...
Deterrents to family planning practices were investigated among Swazi women between 1999-
2001. A total of 171 adolescents, women and men participated in focus group interviews.
Information obtained in this way served ...
The registered midwives are engaged in continuous health education lessons In antenatal visits,
discouraging antenatal clients from using hannful traditional and cultural practices in an
attempt to preserve pregnancy to ...
Tuberculosis (TB) has re-emerged as a major worldwide public health challenge in the last decade with an increasing incidence amongst children. The diagnosis of TB in children is difficult as the presentation is not always ...
This study addresses the specific barriers related to time delays in the treatment of patients who suffered acute myocardial infarction at the Al Ain Hospital accident and emergency unit in the United Arab Emirates.
A ...
A qualitative research design and an ethno-nursing research method were used to identify cultural factors influencing Xhosa women's health seeking behaviours associated with breast lumps. Focus group interviews were conducted ...
The purpose of the study was to describe and explore the provision of quality care in the primary health care clinics of Limpopo within the framework of the Batho Pele principles' service standards by determining the level ...