The purpose of the study was to explore and describe the perceptions of the pupil nurses at their second year level towards clinical support at the private hospital in the Limpopo Province. Qualitative approach including exploratory, descriptive and contextual study design was followed. The target population for this study included pupil nurses at their second year level (n=20) following a two year programme leading to enrolment as a nurse from a private nursing education institution in the Limpopo Province. Data was collected utilizing written narratives, and focus group interviews. Field notes and audio tape were used to capture data. Data saturation was reached on twelve participants. Data were thematically analysed using Tesch’s method of open coding. The results revealed lack of clinical support. Lack of clinical support was attributed to inadequate educators for accompaniment, registered nurses’ uncaring attitude and not fulfilling their mentorship role, and pressure on pupil nurses to meet the high clinical demands. Pupil nurses were found not to be assuming full responsibilities over their practical learning. Therefore, it is mandatory as nurse educators, managers and researchers to take note of the gaps identified and intervene utilising recommendations provided to enhance clinical support. / Health Studies / M.A. (Nursing Science)

The purpose of the study was to investigate the perceived lack of empowerment of registered nurses in the Mpumalanga Province. To determine the reasons for the perceived lack of empowerment and the effect thereof on professional conduct after which empowerment guidelines would be developed which managers can apply in order to enhance the empowerment of registered nurses in their service, and in turn cultivate confident nurse leaders. The main study objectives were to describe what empowerment entails, and its effect on professional conduct in the workplace; explore the level of empowerment among nurse managers and registered nurses; ascertain the effect of perceived powerlessness on the professional conduct and behaviour of nurse managers and registered nurses; establish the reasons for the perceived lack of empowerment among nurse managers and registered nurses; determine if there is a difference in the way in which nurse managers and registered nurses perceive the existing empowerment in their public hospitals and to develop empowerment guidelines for nurse managers and registered nurses. Kanter’s Theory of Structural Empowerment formed the basis of the study and guided the structure of the report. This theory contains three components, each with several dimensions resulting in 14 factors to be tested. A quantitative research approach, with an exploratory and descriptive design was used. Using a researcher-developed questionnaire as the data collection instrument. The site population consisted of one randomly selected district containing eight public hospitals in the Mpumalanga Province. All nurse managers and registered nurses in these hospitals were invited to participate in the study. The researcher delivered the questionnaires to the respondents of the eight hospitals that met the inclusion criteria. Two hundred and sixty seven (267) completed questionnaires were collected upon completion resulting in a response rate of 30.2%. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data. Generally, the results indicated that the majority of the respondents felt empowered with the dimensions contained under the structural empowerment, psychological empowerment and positive work behaviours and attitudes components of Kanter’s Theory. However the respondents noted that they had limited resources. According to the results those nurse managers and registered nurses who felt empowered, scored strongly in the areas of structural and psychological empowerment. The empowerment guidelines were developed for dimensions which were found to be non-empowering to assist nurse managers and registered nurses in creating workplace environments that could enhance the empowerment of registered nurses in their hospitals. / Health Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Health Studies)

The aim of the study was to investigate motivation, job satisfaction and attitudes of nurses in the public health services of Botswana. The objective was to discover how nurses felt about a wide range of variables in their work environment and ultimately to distil them into what they conceived as the mainstay motivators, job satisfiers and positive attitudes. The non pariel (unrivalled, unique) role of the government in creating both the hardware and the software of national health services was acknowledged and recognised with a particular reference to the primacy it placed on developing the human resources in the form of nurses, in order to realize the goals of administering the public health services efficiently and effectively. It was noted that nurses were the change agents and the axis in promoting quality standards of healthcare but in partnership with the government, which must be seen to be responsive and proactive in discharging its fiduciary responsibilities, in respect of both the content and the context of nurses’ occupational ambience. For the purposes of constructing a database from which both the government and the nurses can draw, the most salient thematic details of the theories of motivation, job satisfaction and attitudes were studied and examined and were used as a scaffolding for the empirical survey of nurses. Nine hundred questionnaires were distributed to both registered and enrolled nurses with a minimum of two years work experience in the public health sector and 702 of these were returned constituting a return rate of 78%. The findings indicated that a majority of nurses enjoyed job satisfaction in certain areas of their work namely autonomy, participating in decision-making, choice of type of nursing, change of wards or departments or work units, interpersonal relationships amongst nurses themselves and between nurses and their supervisors. Nurses also perceived the hospital as an environment in which they could continually learn and they were moreover satisfied with the nursing job or the work itself. The other end of the spectrum revealed an overwhelming majority of 92.2% of nurses who were dissatisfied with the level of pay and 88.5% who were not happy with the fringe benefits including the provision of accommodation. Working conditions were viewed as generally disliked by 67.3% of the nurses. Low pay, workload, lack of viii recognition for outstanding performance and or delayed promotional chances were singled out as being particularly disliked by 67.2%, 64.9%, 42.6% and 44.4% of the nurses respectively. Interviews held with 31 nurses yielded similar results. The research further showed that the most important motivators to nurses were dominated by competitive salary which was mentioned by 80.9% of the respondents, attractive or sufficient working conditions which were stated by 71.2% of the nurses, opportunity for continuous education which was rated by 63.8% of the nursing candidates, reduced workload which was claimed by 59.3% of the nursing cadres, opportunity for the recognition of outstanding performance and opportunity for promotion which were scored by 54.1% and 53.4% of the nurse respectively. Job satisfiers were also represented by competitive salary which received 76.1% of the nurses’ votes. Risk allowance occupied the second position with 69.1% and competitive working conditions were awarded a third ranking by 68.2% of the nurses. Those nurses who derived job satisfaction from the fact of each nursing shift being manned by an adequate number of nurses accounted for 63.1% of the sample. Competitive fringe benefits attracted 60.1% of the nurses. Opportunity to attend workshops and the need for high morale in nursing team-work were chosen as job satisfiers by 53.7% and 49.6% of the nurses respectively. In the section on recommendations the government was exhorted to invoke corrective or remedial measures in view of the detailed exegesis of the satisfactions and dissatisfactions in the nurses’ work environment and the ensuing problematique (doubtful, questionable) of raising the standards of health care in the public health services. Living up to these sanguine expectations should be the cherished longterm vision of the government if it is to meet and quench the soaring aspirations of its modernizing society for quality health care delivery and the escalating needs of the nurses. / Public Administration and Management / D.P.A.

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Background: The registered nurses specific area of competence is nursing care, which must be performed in a trusting relationship with the patient. Within perioperative care nurse anaesthetists, registered nurses and assistant nurses work with varied specific tasks to provide patient good care, before, during and after surgery. Sometimes they care for patients with advanced abdominal cancer, whose surgery is crucial for the prognosis of their illness. This means they care for patients directly before and directly after they receive their updated prognosis. Sometimes this surgery for advanced abdominal cancer is considered inoperable shortly after start of surgery, abdominal cancer is often detected at a late stage due to diffuse symptoms. The survival rate after surgery is often short, and palliative care is therefore often initiated. Aim: To describe nurse anaesthetists, registered nurses and assistant nurses experiences when caring for patients directly after surgery whose abdominal cancer was deemed inoperable. Method: Explorative qualitative studied design. Data collection, focus group discussions with nurse anaesthetists, registered nurses and assistant nurses. Analysed using qualitative content analysis. Results: The result is described with three overarching themes. Feeling of inadequacy whitch described the feeling of not wanting to lie, of identifying with patients of the same age, insufficient information and that body language can inadvertently transmit information. Creating strategies describes the difficulty in answering questions and the need for recovery. A feeling of increased security is about the opportunity to prepare and feeling that the conversation with the patient is facilitated. The three themes are based on eight underlying categories. Discussion: No previous research could be found, whitch may indicate that the research question of the study is unique. The use of focus groups as a method was experienced positively, but the prevailing pandemic has affected the possibility of including participants. The experiences of nurse anaesthetists, registered nurses, assistant nurses was shown to be similar, probably unintentially provide to the fact that all participants worked with perioperative care. Conclusion: Nurse anaesthetists, registered nurses and assistant nurses considered it challenging to care for patients with inoperable abdominal cancer. The main challenge was to care for the patients of same age and to respond to patients questions without inadvertently conveying information with body language. / Bakgrund: Den legitimerade sjuksköterskans specifika kompetensområde är omvårdnad, vilken skall utföras i en förtroendefull relation till patienter. Inom perioperativ vård arbetar anestesisjuksköterskor, legitimerade sjuksköterskor och undersköterskor med olika specifika arbetsuppgifter för att ge patienter god omvårdnad inför, under och efter operation. Ibland vårdas patienter med avancerad bukcancer, vars operation är avgörande för sjukdomens prognos, vilket innebär att de vårdar patienter både direkt innan beskedet om prognos och direkt efter. Det händer att patienter som skall opereras för avancerad bukcancer, ibland bedöms inoperabla en kort tid efter att operationen påbörjats. Bukcancer upptäcks ofta i sent skede på grund av diffusa symtom. Överlevnaden efter operation bedöms i dessa fall kort, vilket betyder att palliativ vård ofta behöver initieras. Syfte: Att beskriva anestesisjuksköterskors, legitimerade sjuksköterskors och undersköterskors upplevelser av att vårda patienter direkt postopertivt vars operation avbrutits pga. inoperabel bukcancer. Metod: Explorativ kvalitativ studiedesign. Datainsamling, fokusgruppsdiskussioner med anestesisjuksköterskor, legitimerade sjuksköterskor och undersköterskor. Analys enligt kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Resultatet beskrivs utifrån tre övergripande tema, Känsla av otillräcklighet, som handlar om att inte vilja ljuga, att jämnåriga patienter berör, om otillräcklig information och att kroppsspråket oavsiktligt kan överföra information. Skapa strategier beskriver svårigheten att bemöta frågor och behov av återhämtning och Känsla av ökad trygghet handlar om möjlighet att förbereda sig och en känsla av att samtalet med patienter underlättas. De tre tema baseras på åtta underliggande kategorier. Diskussion: Ingen tidigare forskning kunde hittas, vilket kan betyda att föreliggande studies forskningsfråga är unik.Fokusgruppsdiskussion som metod upplevdes positivt, men rådande pandemi anses ha påverkat möjligheten att inkludera ytterligare deltagare. Upplevelserna hos anestesisjuksköterskor, legitimerade sjuksköterskor och undersköterskor visade sig vara liknande, troligtvis relaterat till att samtliga deltagare arbetade med perioperativ vård. Slutsats: Anestesisjuksköterskor, legitimerade sjuksköterskor och undersköterskor upplevde att det var en utmaning att vårda patienter med inoperabel bukcancer. Utmaningen bestod främst i att vårda jämnåriga patienter och att bemöta frågor utan att med kroppspråket oavsiktligt förmedla information.

Every year, millions of medical errors are committed, costing not only patient health and satisfaction, but thousands of lives and billions of dollars. Errors occur in many areas of the healthcare environment, including the profession of nursing. Nurses provide and delegate patient care and consequently, standard nursing responsibilities such as medication administration, charting, patient education, and basic life support protocol may be incorrect, inadequate, or omitted. Although there is much literature about errors among the general nurse population and there is indication that new nurses commit more errors than experienced nurses, not much literature asks the following question: What are the factors contributing to the commission of errors, including the omission of standard nursing care, among new nurses? Ten studies (quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-mode) were examined to identify these factors. From the 10 studies, the researcher identified the three themes of lack of experience, stressful working conditions, and interpersonal and intrapersonal factors. New nurses may not have had enough clinical time, may develop poor habits, may not turn to more experienced nurses and other professionals, may be fatigued from working too many hours with not enough staffing, may not be able to concentrate at work, and may not give or receive adequate communication. Based on these findings and discussion, suggested implications for nursing practice include extended clinical experience, skills practice, adherence to the nursing process, adherence to medications standards such as the five rights and independent double verification, shorter working hours, adequate staffing, no-interruption and no-phone zones, creating a culture of support, electronically entered orders, translation phones, read-backs, and standardized handoff reports.

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The purpose of this study was to describe and compare the perceptions of the registered nurses and the nurse managers regarding the role of the registered nurse in integrated primary health care. Quantitative, descriptive research was conducted to determine if there were any discrepancies between role perceptions and role expectations. Data collection was done using structured questionnaires. Two groups of respondents participated in the study. The registered nurse group (n=40) provided direct clinical care in integrated primary health care settings. The second group was composed of nurse managers (n=20) managing integrated primary health care services. The findings revealed that there are some areas where there is lack of congruence between the perceptions of registered nurses and nurse managers regarding the functions that registered nurses perform. These differences may result in confusion and role conflict among registered nurses, which can ultimately impede the attainment of integrated primary health care goals. / Advanced Nursing Sciences / M.A.(Nursing Science)

The development ofNursing and Nursing Education in Venda is intimately related to the work of the early missionaries, Western education and medical developments. The growth of nursing and health services had a reciprocal relationship. One was not possible without the other, viz the history of missionary education, hospitals, health services, sociocultural and political development. Each stage ofthese developments was an important step in laying the foundation of modem professional nursing and nursing education. Before contact with Western medicine, health and midwifery services were provided by traditional healers, nurses and midwives. Divination was used to: diagnose disease, identify the witch, determine medicines to cure the disease. Western nursing developed through stages of: lay nursing, hospital certificated, auxiliary nurses and midwives, registered nurses and midwives, comprehensive general nurse and midwife. The history of Nursing and Nursing Education is thus part and parcel of the social developments of the country it serves. / Health Studies / M.A. (Nursing Science)

The purpose of this study was to conduct evaluation research on the implementation of the Baby and Mother Friendly Initiative in Namibia in order to identify its successes and failures, as well as to develop guidelines for the strengthening of the programme. An evaluation research design using a sequential mixed-methods approach to collect qualitative and quantitative data was conducted. In phase 1, qualitative data were collected through face-to-face interviews. Participants were the chief health programme officer for nutrition at national level and nurse managers in charge of the baby and mother friendly hospitals. In phase 2, quantitative data were collected from 391 registered and enrolled nurses/midwives working in the baby and mother friendly hospitals through a self-administered questionnaire. Both phases 1 and 2 indicated partial implementation of the Baby and Mother Friendly Initiative programme. Factors influencing the implementation positively or negatively were identified. The integrated findings formed the basis of guidelines to strengthen the programme. Nine guidelines were developed and validated. / Health Studies / D.Litt. et Phil. (Health Studies)