Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Nursing) by Title
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A social constructionist analysis of talk in episodes of psychiatric student nurse-psychiatric client community clinic based interaction.
(2007)The study seeks to explore and to offer a critical account for the 'discursive doings' of student psychiatric nmsing practice as they are jointly constructed in the episodes of conversation between the nmse and client-speakers ... -
An analysis of health behaviour of children from child headed households in a selected health district in KwaZulu-Natal : an ethnographic study.
(2013)Introduction The loss of a parent predominantly as a result of HIV and AIDS disease has a negative effect on children, which can lead to increased number of orphans. Traditionally the extended family would take in orphaned ... -
The analysis of knowledge construction in community based service-learning programmes for basic nursing education at two selected nursing schools in South Africa.
(2011)Community based service-learning is one of the fastest growing reforms in higher education, especially in the field of health care. The increased interest in this phenomenon is based on the demands by government and society ... -
An analysis of nurse managers' human resources management related to HIV and tuberculosis affected/infected nurses in selected hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - an ethnographic study.
(2014)INTRODUCTION: Providing sufficient quality nurses in resource strapped countries is a human resource management challenge which nurse managers’ experience on a daily basis. THE PURPOSE of this study was to analyse and to ... -
An analysis of the current basic nursing education systems of francophone African countries of the World Health Organization Afro region.
(2001)It is against the background of new developments and initiates taking place in various countries to make basic nursing education systems more responsive and relevant to the ever-changing nature of society that a ... -
An analysis of the influence of multilevel leadership on the effectiveness of provincial hospitals in the Kwazulu/Natal Province.
(1998)The purpose of this study was to describe and identify the leadership style that prevails in health care institutions, in order to establish the influence of multilevelleadershipon the effeciveness of hospitals in ... -
An analysis of the utilisation of e-learning platform at a selected nursing school in Rwanda : a participatory action research study.
(2017)Background: E-learning is a commonplace in nursing and healthcare professional education, and generally the importance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the internet in tertiary education is recognised. ... -
An appraisal of continuous quality improvement (CQI) mechanisms and development of quality care indicators amongst clinical nurses in selected teaching hospitals in South-West (SW) Nigeria.
(2009)Aim: This study appraised the CQI mechanisms and processes in the clinical nursing divisions of five selected teaching hospitals located in South-West Nigeria and developed quality care indicators to measure and monitor ... -
The assessment of the aggregate health status of an organisation.
(1993)As adults spend the major portion of their lives at work, it is essential that the reciprocal relationship between their work and health be recognised. In this regard, occupational nurses have an important function, through ... -
A comparative analysis of adolescent sexual and reproductive health programmes in two African countries : Ghana and South Africa.
(2007)Sex and sexuality issues are still sensitive and controversial subjects despite the growing numbers of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programmes for adolescents in subSaharan African countries (WHO, 2002; Department ... -
The conceptions of sexual relationships among the Yoruba people in Nigeria.
(2005)The study explored the cultural dynamics of construction of sexual intercourse within gender constructions of masculinity and femininity among the Yoruba people of South western Nigeria. The Explanatory Model Interview ... -
The delivery of cultural care by health professionals among the hospitalized AmaXhosa male initiates of traditional circumcision in the Eastern Cape.
(2009)Traditional male circumcision is a rite of passage among the AmaXhosa in South Africa. According to the custom of male traditional circumcision, initiates should remain in the bush for the entire seclusion period. The ... -
Description and analysis of the process of implemetation of the national qualifications framework (NQF) in nursing education (NE) in South Africa.
(2001)The intention of this study was to describe the implementation process of the NQF in nursing education at central and provincial levels in order to explore the change process. It deals with this process as follows: ... -
Developing an intervention model for data quality management and health information use at community and district levels in Rwanda
(2014)The purpose of this study was to develop an intervention model for health data quality management (DQM) and health information use at community and district levels in Rwanda and similar settings, based on a situation ... -
Developing an intervention model to manage caregiver burden experienced by family caregivers of patients living with end-stage renal disease in Nigeria.
(2017)The purpose of the study was to develop and implement an intervention model to manage caregiver burden experienced by family caregivers of patients with End-Stage Renal Disease in South-West Nigeria. The model that was ... -
Developing and evaluating a community-based HIV/AIDS stigma reduction intervention in Ongenga constituency of Ohangwena Region, Namibia.
(2012)Background: Namibia has been affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic with infected and affected persons experience stigma at different levels. As there were no local stigma reduction intervention tools, this study aimed to ... -
Developing, testing and refining of a model for implementation of HIV/AIDS self-management education in a semi-rural area in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2011)The purpose of this study was to develop, test and refine a model for implementation of self-management education for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in semi-rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The study consists ... -
Development and implementation of a staff development plan for nurses in one district in Zambia based on a learning organization approach.
(2006)This study explored the existing planning systems that nurse managers in health institutions in the Lusaka district in Zambia used to plan staff development activities, with a view to developing a model suitable for a staff ... -
The development and implementation of policy guidelines for health promotion in the workplace.
(2007)The three phased study aimed to develop policy guidelines for workplace health promotion based on an exploration of the current status of health promotion in South African workplaces. In the first phase of the study a ... -
Development and testing of a model for implementation of recognition of prior learning.
(2001)The Minister of Education's public statement In August 1999, that South African citizens should mobilize and build an education and training system for the 21'st century . among other things emphasized the application of ...