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(Mis)framing higher education in South Africa
(Blackwell Publishing, 2012)
The question of how to make higher education more inclusive has been a central concern in South Africa and elsewhere over the past two decades. However, in South Africa there remains a disjuncture between policy aimed at ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Building capacity to develop an African teaching platform on health workforce development: a collaborative initiative of universities from four sub Saharan countries
(BioMed Central, 2014)
INTRODUCTION: Health systems in many low-income countries remain fragile, and the record of human resource planning and management in Ministries of Health very uneven. Public health training institutions face the dual ...
Trained nurse preceptors ’ perceptions of a preceptorship training programme offered by a university in the Western Cape
(International Scholars Journals, 2014)
The School of Nursing at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and the Directorate of Nursing Services in the Western Cape Department of Health undertook a collaborative project to strengthen the clinical teaching skills ...
Perceptions of professional nurses regarding clinical competence of community service practitioners from degree and diploma programmes offered in the Western Cape
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)
In compliance to the national requirements of producing competent learners, the South African Nursing Council requires community service practitioners to have the necessary knowledge, skills, attitudes and values which ...
Reflections of nursing students, lecturers and clinical supervisors in the Western Cape on large classes
(Unisa Press, 2014)
Nursing education in the Western Cape responded to the South African higher education
transformation agenda by establishing a Common Teaching Platform (CTP) for the
delivery of the undergraduate nursing programme. Three ...