Browsing Research Articles (School of Pharmacy) by Author "van Huyssteen, Mea"
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Comparative evaluation of pharmacy students’ knowledge and skills in maternal and child health: Traditional versus integrated curriculum
Egieyeh, Elizabeth Oyebola; Bheekie, Angeni; van Huyssteen, Mea (MDPI, 2022): Reducing maternal and child mortality is a health priority in South Africa. Therefore, health professional education should produce graduates that can meet these needs. This study compared the maternal and child health ... -
Continuous professional development for public sector pharmacists in South Africa: A case study of mapping competencies in a pharmacists’ preceptor programme
van Huyssteen, Mea; Bheekie, Angeni; Srinivas, Sunitha C (MPDI, 2020)Lifelong learning among healthcare practitioners is crucial to keep abreast of advances in therapeutic and service delivery approaches. In South Africa, continuous professional development (CPD) was mandated (2019) for ... -
Describing medicine therapy management of type 2 diabetes mellitus at primary health care facilities in Cape Town
Monanabela, Khathatso B.; van Huyssteen, Mea; Coetzee, Renier (AOSIS, 2019)Rational medicine use aims to optimise chronic disease management and prevent episodes of hospitalisation that economically burden the health care system. Diabetes mellitus is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases ... -
Development and implementation of an integrated framework for undergraduate pharmacy training in maternal and child health at a South African university
Egieyeh, Elizabeth Oyebola; Bheekie, Angeni; van Huyssteen, Mea (MPDI, 2021)The South African Pharmacy Council (SAPC) regulates undergraduate pharmacy education and pharmacy practice. The SAPC Good Pharmacy Practice manual describes the role of pharmacists in maternal and child health (MCH) in ... -
The effectiveness of using text and pictograms on oral rehydration, dry-mixture sachet labels
Heyns, Jeanne; van Huyssteen, Mea; Bheekie, Angeni (AOSIS, 2021)Medication labels are often the only information available to patients after obtaining medication from a healthcare practitioner. Pictograms are graphic symbols that have shown to increase understanding of medicine use ... -
Exploring practising pharmacy graduates’ views on improving the effectiveness of pharmacy education at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
van Huyssteen, Mea; Bheekie, Angeni (HEALTH & MEDICAL PUBLISHING GROUP, 2019)South African health professional education institutions have a mandate to produce graduates who are able to address priority needs of the healthcare system and larger society. However, evidence of the effective use of ... -
Preceptor reflections on the Community Health clinical rotation for fourth year pharmacy students at the University of the Western Cape
van Huyssteen, Mea; Bheekie, Angeni; Coetzee, Renier (2019)This paper describes the community health clinic rotation of the Patient Care Experience programme (PaCE) offered to fourth year pharmacy students (2018) at the University of the Western Cape. Reflections from the collective ... -
Service learning in pharmacy: Implementation of tuberculosisscreening by second-year pharmacy studentsin primary health care facilitiesin Cape Town, South Africa
Adeola, Adeleye T.; Coetzee, Renier; van Huyssteen, Mea (FIP, 2021)The School of Pharmacy of the University of the Western Cape implemented a service learning programme where second year students participated in tuberculosis (TB) screening.To determine the views of students and nurses about ...