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 ...
BACKGROUND: Maternalenewborn bonding during the first hours of is crucial to infant development.
Effective bonding requires that newborn baby and mother be close to each another, so that the baby can
signal his/her needs ...
In this text, Ellemes Phuma, shares her experience and the benefits she derived from the
International Ethics Conference held at the University of Botswana (UB). As a graduate
student in nursing at that university, she ...
OBJECTIVE: Clinical environment remains an important aspect in the development of student's competence,
confidence and fulfillment of their expected learning outcomes. Preceptors and clinical teachers
play a significant ...
Mbakaya, B. C.; Kalembo, F. W.; Zgambo, M.; Konyani, A.; Lungu, F.; Tveit, B.; Kaasen, A.; Simango, M.; Bvumbwe, T.(BMC, 2020)
BACKGROUND: The clinical learning environment is an important part of the nursing and midwifery training as it
helps students to integrate theory into clinical practice. However, not all clinical learning environments ...
AIM: The study aimed to explore factors related to the initiation and utilization of focused antenatal care (FANC)
in the Southern District of Mzimba, Malawi.
METHODS: This study used an exploratory qualitative design. ...
Bvumbwe, T.; Mtshali, N.(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2018)
BACKGROUND. A de-link between initial training and transition to practice has been reported. Effective transitioning to practice enhances competences
and confidence among newly graduated nurses.
OBJECTIVES. To develop ...
BACKGROUND:
Malawi made great strides to increase the number of nurses through the Emergency Human Resource for Health Program. However,
quantity of health workforce alone is not adequate to strengthen the health system. ...
Bvumbwe, Thokozani M.; Mtshali, Ntombifikile G.(AOSIS, 2018-03-22)
BACKGROUND: Despite a global consensus that nurses and midwives constitute the majority and
are a backbone of any country’s health workforce system, productive capacity of training
institutions remains low and still ...
Chimbatata, Nathan B. W.; Zhou, Chang-Ming; Chimbatata, Chikondi M.; Xu, Biao(Biomed central, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Malawi is a low-income country with high Tuberculosis (TB) burden. TB diagnosis delay and untimely
initiation of treatment is still a major problem in Malawi which could increase the risk of tuberculosis ...