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Exploring nurse preceptors’ perceptions of benefits and support of and commitment to the preceptor role in the Western Cape Province
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2014)
BACKGROUND: A preceptor is a specialised tutor who provides practical training to students in the practice setting. They are frequently used to orientate nursing students to prepare them for their duties as professional ...
Students’ voices on spiritual care at a Higher Education Institution in the Western Cape
(AOSIS, 2015)
BACKGROUND: Nurses have a moral obligation to ensure holistic care of patients, inclusive of
the spiritual dimension. However, there seems to be a void in the teaching and learning of
spiritual care in nursing curricula. ...
Student nurses’ experiences of the common teaching platform for undergraduate nursing in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
(AOSIS, 2013)
The higher education system in South Africa transformed over the last two decades in response to societal changes and the new democratic order since 1994. Nursing education programmes in South Africa’s higher education ...
District facility managers’ perspectives of mental health information processing and utilisation at primary care level in the Western Cape
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)
District health facility managers play a significant role in provision of primary health care (PHC) services, particularly in integration of mental health services into the PHC level and developing a district health ...
Socio-technical approach to community health: designing and developing a mobile care data application for home-based healthcare, in South Africa
(CCIRDT, 2013)
The aim of this report is to describe the design and development considerations related to a mobile home-based healthcare application for care givers in a community in the Western Cape, South Africa. In order to do this ...
Intimate partner violence amongst undergraduate nursing students
(Unisa press, 2014)
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is reported to be rife among the student population at
tertiary institutions and the general population. Yet the abuse is under diagnosed by nurses
in health care settings. Research ...
Primary care nurses’ preparedness for COVID-19 in the Western Cape province, South Africa
(AOSIS, 2021)
The novel coronavirus 2019 or COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a global
public health crisis. Primary care (PC) nurses render first line care, or refer for more specialised
services. To investigate the preparedness ...
Clinical supervisors’ preparedness for clinical teaching of undergraduate nurses at a university in the Western Cape
(Unisa Press, 2020)
Clinical supervisionis crucial for the development of nursing students’ clinical competence;therefore, clinical supervisors need to beclinical experts.Inadequately prepared clinical supervisors can ...
Experience of violence, coping and support for nurses working in acute psychiatric wards
(AOSIS, 2022)
Acute psychiatric wards are stressful working environments because of the
nature of the mental illness of patients admitted. These patients present with a variety of
complex psychiatric problems and social control that ...
Objective structured clinical examination: Do first-year nursing students perceive it to be stressful?
(AOSIS, 2023)
The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is widely accepted as an
effective means of assessing clinical competence and nursing skills. There is, however, little
existing knowledge on how first-year nursing ...