• Login
    View Item 
    •   ResearchSpace Home
    • College of Health Sciences
    • School of Nursing & Public Health
    • Nursing
    • Masters Degrees (Nursing)
    • View Item
    •   ResearchSpace Home
    • College of Health Sciences
    • School of Nursing & Public Health
    • Nursing
    • Masters Degrees (Nursing)
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Exploring reasons for the high staff turnover amongst professional nurses at the Mandeni sub-district primary healthcare facilities.

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    Msomi Babhekile Rejoice.pdf (1.215Mb)
    Date
    2017
    Author
    Msomi, Babhekile Rejoice.
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    Introduction Primary healthcare (PHC) facilities are the first level of health care, therefore it is essential that these services are always accessible to the local community. The South African healthcare system has adopted a primary healthcare approach aiming to achieve health for all South African citizens. This is the reason why PHC services are rendered free of charge in all public clinics in South Africa. However, professional nurse turnover is impacting negatively on accessibility as well as quality of services rendered in the rural PHC clinics. Therefore, this research seeks to explore the reasons for high staff turnover amongst the professional nurses and to increase access of PHC services to the community and improve quality of services delivered by these clinics. Aim To explore the reasons for high staff turnover amongst professional nurses at the Mandeni sub-district PHC facilities. Method A qualitative exploratory study was conducted in seven PHC clinics and one Community Health (CHC) clinic was selected. Five professional nurses, including one operational manager were selected purposely. Data was collected using unstructured interviews. The main research question for this study was: “Why have you decided to leave employment at the PHC clinic?” Results The study’s findings revealed that professional nurses were overworked due to high patient load, lack of support from the management, favouritism, poor working conditions, professional nurse shortage, unmanageable subordinates, intimidation at the workplace, ever complaining community, financial problems, family responsibilities, poor work schedules and doing on-call duties, and lack of resources like poor water supply.
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10413/15964
    Collections
    • Masters Degrees (Nursing) [199]

    DSpace software copyright © 2002-2013  Duraspace
    Contact Us | Send Feedback
    Theme by 
    @mire NV
     

     

    Browse

    All of ResearchSpaceCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsAdvisorsTypeThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsAdvisorsType

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    DSpace software copyright © 2002-2013  Duraspace
    Contact Us | Send Feedback
    Theme by 
    @mire NV