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Integrating research into teaching: needs assessment for staff development
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2014)
Background: The scholarship of teaching involves the integration of research into teaching activities, critical reflection of practice, and communication, and dissemination of the practice of one’s subject. However, it is ...
The challenges of reshaping disease specific and care oriented community based services towards comprehensive goals: a situation appraisal in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
(BioMed Central, 2015)
Similar to other countries in the region, South Africa is currently reorienting a loosely structured and
highly diverse community care system that evolved around HIV and TB, into a formalized, comprehensive and
integrated ...
Student nurses' experiences of the common teaching platform for undergraduate nursing in the Western Cape Province, SA
(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 ...
Staff development strategies for publication in the Faculty of Community and Health Science at UWC: A short report
(Faculty of Community and Health Sciences, University of the Western Cape, 2010-01-31)
INTRODUCTION:
Strategies for improving the publication output of academics are an essential component of research directives at
tertiary institutions. The aim of this report was to highlight the effects of a writing ...
External stakeholders and health promoting schools: complexity and practice in South Africa
(Emerald, 2014)
Purpose: This paper examines the role of two higher education institutions in the Western Cape, South Africa, and how their initiatives and collaboration brought about a particular Health Promoting Schools (HPS) program ...
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 ...
Exploring the key performance areas and assessment criteria for the evaluation of students' clinical performance: a Delphi study
(AOSIS Publishing, 2011)
BACKGROUND: Evaluating students’ clinical performance is an
integral part of the quality assurance in a physiotherapy curriculum, however,
the objectivity during clinical examination have been questioned on numerous ...
The experiences of undergraduate nursing students working in mental health care settings in the Western Cape, South Africa
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)
The mental health care environment is perceived to be a stressful clinical learning environment for nursing students to work in due to a myriad of factors. These factors include amongst other, the physical environment, the ...
A survey of cultural competence of critical care nurses in KwaZulu-Natal.
(Health medical publishing group (HMPG), 2014)
BACKGROUND. Nurses are primary caregivers and have a key role in providing care in a culturally diverse healthcare system, such as in South Africa (SA). Nurses need cultural competence in the management of patients within ...
Revisiting innovative approaches to teaching and learning in nursing programmes: educators’ experiences with the use of a case-based teaching approach at a nursing school
(Unisa Press, 2014)
Innovative approaches to teaching and learning have been acclaimed by educators in
health care related professions as being more suitable to teaching future professionals,
and to engendering critical thinking, as well ...