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Youths’ experience of trauma: Personal transformation though self-leadership and self-coaching
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)
South African youth has a history of adversity and is exposed to high levels of trauma, either as victims of violence or as witnesses to these events. South Africa has a shortage of mental-health professionals and a fairly ...
The Use of Mobile Phones to Deliver Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in the Prevention of Mother Child HIV Transmission in Nigeria
(Sage Publications, 2015)
The objective of this study was to determine if introducing acceptance and commitment therapy in the prevention of mother to child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programme using weekly mobile phone messages would result in ...
Application of Lazarus's cognitive transactional model of stress-appraisal-coping in an undergraduate mental health nursing programme in the Western Cape, South Africa
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)
This article describes how the cognitive transactional model of stress-appraisal-coping can be applied in the sense making process for students working in the challenging mental health care environment. Primary and secondary ...
Revitalization of clinical skills training at the University of the Western Cape
(Curationis, 2010)
Most educational institutions that offer health related qualifications make use of clinical skills laboratories. These spaces are generally used for the demonstration and assessment of clinical skills. The purpose of this ...
Expectations of youth victims of violence regarding healthcare professionals leading them to wellness in South Africa
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2015)
BACKGROUND: Many youth victims of violence report for treatment at the health care facilities in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It was unclear what the youth expected regarding how they could be led towards ...
Factors contributing to incivility among students at a South African nursing school
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2015)
BACKGROUND: This study determined the experiences of nurse educators of the factors
contributing to the uncivil classroom behaviours of nursing students at a South African school of nursing. OBJECTIVE: To describe what ...
Cost-benefit analysis of the common teaching platform for the undergraduate nursing degree programme in the Western Cape, South Africa
(LAM Publications Limited, 2014)
Post-1994, the South African higher education sector underwent a number of reforms to address issues of inequalities, inefficiencies and fragmentation. Reform in the Western Cape Province included pooling the resources of ...
Challenges of academic healthcare leaders in a higher education context in South Africa
(Wiley, 2018)
Universities are in a highly competitive environment, needing strong academic leadership. Some heads of departments have been appointed into leadership positions in a healthcare faculty after having been mere academics for ...
The sensitivity and specificity of subjective memory complaints and the subjective memory rating scale, deterioration cognitive observee, mini-mental state examination, six-item screener and clock drawing test in Dementia Screening.
(Karger, 2013)
Background: The effectiveness of dementia screening depends on the availability of suitable screening tools with good sensitivity and specificity to confidently distinguish normal age-related cognitive decline from dementia. ...
Factors that guide nurse managers regarding the staffing of agency nurses in intensive care units at private hospitals in Pretoria.
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)
Staffing needs affect the nursing department’s budget, staff productivity, the quality of care provided to patients and even the retention of nurses. It is unclear how the role players (the nursing agency manager, the nurse ...