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Challenges faced by grandparents caring for AIDS orphans in Koster, North West Province of South Africa
(Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2014)
Caring for orphans who have lost their parents due to AIDS, and some of whom are infected, is an enormous challenge. This immense responsibility often resides with the grandparents, who are in most cases sickly and not ...
Significance of literature when constructing a theory: a selective literature review
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)
The issues around use of literature in theory construction are often a source of confusion, especially for novice researchers. The very nature of the process of theory construction remains blurred due to lack of consensus ...
A survey of University Students' Perceptions of Learning Management Systems in a Low-Resource Setting using a Technology Acceptance Model
(Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 2015)
Learning management systems have been widelyadvocated for the support of distance learning. Inlow-resource settings, the uptake of these systemsby students has been mixed. This study aimed to dentify, through the use of ...
Blogging to enhance reflective and collaborative learning
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)
This study explored the educational benefit and value of blogging by postgraduate nursing students registered for Masters in Nursing Education in order to become professional nurse educators. The researcher assumed that ...
Pursuing a corporate understanding of service-learning in nursing education: a case study
(Unisa press, 2014)
A corporate definition of service-learning (SL) could help to mainstream SL in higher
education institutions (HEIs). Concepts like ‘service-learning’, ‘community engagement’ and ‘community service’ tend to be used ...
A conceptual framework of the resemblance in self-leadership and professional core values of nurses in the South African context
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)
In a country such as South Africa with its widely diverse values and belief systems, it could be a challenge to bring about a common understanding of professionalism amongst nurses in a multicultural society. When novice ...
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 ...
Nurse educators’ experiences and perspectives of incivility among nursing students in a South African school of nursing
(2014)
This study presents a synthesis of the experiences and perspectives of nurse educators regarding uncivil classroom behaviours of nursing students in a school of nursing. Using a descriptive, phenomenological design, 11 ...
Exploring development of leadership capacities in undergraduate nursing students through transformative learning: a narrative review
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)
Transformative learning (TL) is seen as an instructional reform in health professions education to develop leadership capacities and eventually produce change agents. This article explores the development of leadership ...
Experiences of community nurses in management of a district-based mental health information system in the Western Cape, South Africa
(Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2014)
The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of community nurses in the management of a mental health information system (MHIS). A purposive convenient sampling method was employed to select 23 community mental ...