This research investigated the ethical and legal issues that impact on the urgent implementation of Nurse Initiated and Managed Anti-Retroviral Treatment (NIMART) in South Africa, which is part of the task-shifting ...

The preceptorship model is widely used in both undergraduate and postgraduate nursing education. Primarily, preceptors engage in preceptorship to share knowledge, obtain recognition and achieve job satisfaction. However, ...

Introduction: The nursing profession in South Africa has lost skilled nurses due to intense international recruitment drives. This hospital in the West Rand has also failed to recruit and retain skilled nurses. The ...

In the setting of the critical care unit, the nurse is caring for the critically ill patients and is the care giver who is present at the bedside for 24 hours. The nurse comes into contact with all other disciplines attending ...

Background: End-of-life (EOL) care has become a significant area of expertise in the intensive care unit. The current multi-cultural society and growing ageing population, characterised by life-threatening illnesses and ...

Collaboration is an interpersonal relationship among colleagues sharing the same goal, power, authority and decision making (Dougherty & Larson, 2010). Collaboration is described as a marker of a nurses’ ability as well ...

Background: Sedation is regarded as a common and essential part of treatment for intensive care patients. Clinicians frequently sedate critically ill patients to aid the following: patient-ventilation synchrony, relief of ...

Aim: This study explored and described the experiences of nurses caring for patients mechanically ventilated in intensive care units of the academic hospitals in Johannesburg Method: A qualitative, descriptive and ...

Background: Despite the key role nurses play in mechanical ventilation management process and coordinating care of their patients in intensive care units alongside doctors, little remains known about the role of NICU ...