BACKGROUND: Numerous learning opportunities exist in clinical handover but accessing
them requires effort and careful planning since the primary goal of clinical handover is ensuring
patient safety rather than teaching ...
Purpose: Provision of feedback to nursing and midwifery students is essential in clinical teaching. Feedback helps students to reflect on their performance, feel more confident and competent when conducting procedures and ...
Introduction
Literature has reported global experiences with E-learning Nursing Education. However, little is known about the experiences of Registered Nurse Midwives with E-learning nursing education in Malawi. The aim ...
There is a global outcry that newly graduating midwives lack skills in providing midwifery care to women of reproductive age. Interventions have been implemented to ensure an enabling clinical environment for midwifery ...
Background: Nursing is a practice-profession requiring continuous reflection on actions for improving care, professional growth, and ensuring ethical practice. Despite its significance, reflective practice in nursing ...
Introduction: Psychiatric nursing plays a critical role in the healthcare system, yet the specialisation is often met with reluctance from many nurses. In Malawi, psychiatric nursing remains underdeveloped due to various ...
Background: Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) affects millions of people globally. It carries a high mortality of 50% - 90%. In Malawi it contributes a significant proportion of (3.1%) of paediatric hospitalisations demanding ...
Introduction: Covid-19, caused by the novel SARS-CoV-2, brought significant challenges to the health care
delivery system. The pandemic impacted care delivery not only due to the severity of the disease and the high ...
Introduction
Delayed access and underutilization of antenatal care remain a challenge in Malawi despite being the risk factor to high maternal and neonatal mortality. The new World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) antenatal ...
Clinical teaching practices of nurse educators are very important in building students’
competencies and preparing them for practice. However, most nurse midwife technicians trained by the Christian Health Association ...
Background: Nursing care is a major component of the health services because it is one of the determinants of quality health services. The anecdotal patients’ care evaluation and media reports have portrayed negative ...
Background: A caring environment in nursing education is one of the most
essential factors for empowering students, which is achieved through trust and
open academic communication. Aim: To explore the experiences of ...
Aims:
The study aimed at exploring faculty caring behaviours from the perspectives of university students enrolled in Nursing and Midwifery programme
at one of the public universities in Malawi.
Background:
The concept ...
Purpose: Clinical practice during pandemics is known to bring additional fears to nursing
students. The purpose of this study was to explore fears of Mzuzu University’s nursing
students nurses regarding resumption of ...
Background: Malawi is a low-income country with a high maternal mortality rate, unmet need for family planning and high reports
(41%) of unintended pregnancies. Women on Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) continued to experience ...
Purpose: Fears of the Covid-19 pandemic have brought additional psychological pressure
among nursing students. Nursing students at Mzuzu University in Malawi resumed clinical
practice amidst the first wave of the ...
We estimated the seroprevalence of anti‐severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) antibodies in residents of African countries and
explored its associated factors. We searched PubMed, EMBASE, ...
Emotional distress associated with the death of human beings cannot be underestimated.
Much as it affects the immediate family members, midwives who witness
death of pregnant patients are not spared the emotional distress. ...
Dartey, Anita Fafa; Phetlhu, D. R.; Phema-Ngaiyaye, Ellemes(University of the western cape, 2017)
Like the fear associated with the demise of loved ones, maternal deaths at any health facility equally illicit fear among midwives. This jeopardises their ability to achieve the quality of work expected of them. There is ...
Uniqueness among human beings is innate and it influences behaviour and way of life. Different people perceive things differently even under the same conditions. Midwives as employees and humanitarian workers are throwing ...