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Journal articles on the topic "Umkhanyakude District Municipality (South Africa) – Medical care"
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Madzhadzhi, Livhuwani Precious, Henry Abayomi Akinsola, Jabu Mabunda, and Helen Tosin Oni. "Workplace Violence Against Nurses: Vhembe District Hospitals, South Africa." Research and Theory for Nursing Practice 31, no. 1 (2017): 28–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1541-6577.31.1.28.
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Introduction: Work-related violence is a common problem worldwide. In South Africa, the Medical Research Council conducted a study on workplace violence in the health care industry and reported that most respondents had experienced it in different forms. Purpose: This study aimed to identify the types and causes of workplace violence toward nurses in Thulamela hospitals, Vhembe district. Methods: The study employed a quantitative approach using a cross-sectional design. The target population was all nurses working in one regional and two district hospitals in the municipality. The sample consisted of 100 randomly selected participants from each hospital giving a total sample size of 300. Prior to the data collection, an ethical clearance and written informed consent were obtained from each participant. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire. Analysis was done using SPSS Version 20.0. Results: The study revealed that 85% of the respondents (255) had experienced workplace violence in the last 12 months with a range of 95% for threats to 60% for bullying. Regarding the gender of the perpetrators, females (71%) were the main perpetrators. Conclusion: This study concludes that workplace violence is a major occupational health issue in the district, most especially among the psychiatric nurses.
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Mburu, Grace, and Gavin George. "Determining the efficacy of national strategies aimed at addressing the challenges facing health personnel working in rural areas in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa." African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine 9, no. 1 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v9i1.1355.
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Background: Shortages of Human Resources for Health (HRH) in rural areas are often driven by poor working and living conditions, inadequate salaries and benefits, lack of training and career development opportunities amongst others. The South African government has adopted a human resource strategy for the health sector in 2011 aimed at addressing these challenges.Aim: This study reviews the challenges faced by health personnel against government strategies aimed at attracting and retaining health personnel in these underserved areas.Setting: The study was conducted in six primary health care service sites in the Hlabisa sub-district of Umkhanyakude, located in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Methods: The study population comprised 25 health workers including 11 professional nurses, 4 staff nurses and 10 doctors (4 medical doctors, 3 foreign medical doctors and 3 doctors undertaking community service). Qualitative data were collected from semi-structured interviews and analysed using thematic analysis.Results: Government initiatives including the rural allowance, deployment of foreign medical doctors and the presence of health personnel undertaking their community service in rural areas are positively viewed by health personnel working in rural health facilities. However, poor living and working conditions, together with inadequate personal development opportunities, remain unresolved challenges. It is these challenges that will continue to dissuade experienced health personnel from remaining in these underserved areas.Conclusion: South Africa’s HRH strategy for the Health Sector 2012/13–2015/16 had highlighted the key challenges raised by respondents and identified strategies aimed at addressing these challenges. Implementation of these strategies is key to improving both living and working conditions, and providing health personnel with opportunities for further development will require inter-ministerial collaboration if the HRH 2030 objectives are to be realised.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Umkhanyakude District Municipality (South Africa) – Medical care"
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Hlabano, Boniface. "Perceptions of traditional healers on collaborating with biomedical health professionals in Umkhanyakude District of KwaZulu Natal." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13636.
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This qualitative study explored traditional healers’ perceptions on collaborating with bio medical professionals. Purposive sampling was used to select study participants, and individual in-depth interviews were used to collect data. Thematic data analysis was conducted. The main findings of the study were that healers are very popular and highly respected amongst African communities. Traditional healers experienced mistrust and disrespect by biomedical health professionals who demonstrated ignorance on traditional medicine. Lack of motivation, incentives and financial support to conduct collaboration activities was another key finding including lack of clear policies and management structures for collaboration. Due to concern for their patients, healers resorted to practising covert collaboration such as not using official referral slips. Positively, healers experienced transformation in terms of knowledge gained from the training on basic HIV-TB epidemiology. There was clear evidence of high ethical practices amongst healers where they put their patients’ welfare ahead of their business interests<br>Health Studies<br>M.A. (Public Health)
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Nkala, Gugulethu Cynthia. "Nursing student's perspectives on Spiritual care in clinical nursing practice in a selected school of nursing at Umkhanyakude District in KZN Province." Diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/24855.
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A qualitative, non-experimental, explorative and descriptive research design based on the phenomenological philosophical tradition by Heidegger to broaden hermeneutics was conducted. The study was conducted at Umkhanyakude District to investigate the perspectives of eligible nursing students relating to the provision of spiritual care to patients. A purposive sample of 9 participants was recruited and consent form obtained. An unstructured interview guide, with a grand tour question, was used to conduct face to face individual interviews. The Thematic analysis and interpretative phenomenological method of analysis were employed until three themes, six categories and eleven subcategories emerged from the data. Data analysis revealed that nurses had difficulty to differentiate spiritual care from religious care. Commonly cited methods of providing spiritual care were prayer, reading sacred text and singing spiritual songs. Nurses still felt inadequately prepared educationally on how to provide spiritual care in nursing practice. Most of the participants provided spiritual care out of their own interest and not as part of their professional responsibility. Recommendations proposed that the matter be taken up by nurse managers to conduct related in-service education and mentoring programs and nurse educators to guide curriculum planning which evidently include spiritual care.<br>Health Studies<br>M.A. (Health Studies)
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Ragolane, Victoria Joyce. "Factors contributing to late antenatal care booking in Mopani District of Limpopo Province." Diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25028.
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Late booking is associated with high perinatal and maternal morbidity and mortality. The World Health Organization (WHO, 2016) recommends that pregnant women should book for ANC full first before 12 weeks of gestation. The aim of the study was to explore and describe factors contributing to late antenatal care booking at public health facilities of Mopani District. A qualitative approach was used. In-depth interviews were conducted with twenty one pregnant women who booked after twelve weeks of gestation and agreed to participate in the study.
The study was conducted at four selected public health care facilities rendering maternal health services in Mopani district. Data was collected through in-depth interview with the aid of an interview guide. The analysis of data was done manually using a coding system to develop themes.
The results revealed that there are personal and provider factors contributing to late antenatal care booking in Mopani district. Personal factors contributing to late antenatal care booking were unplanned and unaccepted pregnancy, lack of support, late recognition of pregnancy, cultural and religious beliefs, ignorance of the importance of antenatal care and fear.
System or provider factors contributing to late booking were long waiting time, midwives’ attitude and lack of resources.<br>Health Studies<br>M.A. (Public Health)
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Manganyi, Thokozile. "The knowledge of professional nurses about culture competent care at selected medical wards, oncology wards and outpatient departments in Mopani District, Limpopo Province." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13367.
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The purpose of the study was to determine professional nurses’ knowledge of culture- competent care at selected medical and oncology wards and outpatient departments in Mopani District, Limpopo Province. A quantitative descriptive design was used and data collected from one hundred and five professional nurses by means of a structured questionnaire. The study found that cultural knowledge needs to be nurtured through continuing education and mentoring and that culture-competent care should be included in the curriculum. Furthermore, cultural knowledge is not effective if there is no correlation of theory and practice and early clinical placement of student nurses during their basic training<br>Health Studies<br>M. A. (Health Studies)
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Budeli, Thembi Elizabeth. "Perceptions of women who attend health care services regarding cervical cancer screening at Thulamela Municipality, Vhembe District, Limpopo Province." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/839.
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"A cost analysis of a stepdown antiretroviral programme at the KwaDukuza District Municipality Clinic in the Ilembe District in KwaZulu-Natal for the period 1st April 2005 to 31st March 2006." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/583.
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Introduction: While the antiretroviral (ARV) coverage has been scaled- up in the last 3 years in South Africa, there is limited data on the operating costs and financial sustainabihty of an anti- retroviral programme. Study Aim: To conduct a cost analysis of the stepdown ARV programme at the Kwadukuza Municipality Clinic (KMC) in the Ilembe district from a healthcare providers' perspective for the period 1st April 2005 to 31st March2006. Study Objectives: To determine the total costs and cost per patient per visit for outpatients attending the ARV, Wellness and VCT clinics respectively at KMC. Study Methods: Study location: This study was conducted at the Kwadukuza Municipality Clinic located in the Ilembe district in Kwazulu- Natal, South Africa. Study population: The population that is included in this study for the purposes of costing comprised: all the patients who received ARVs for the period under study; all the patients who attended the Wellness and VCT clinics and all the staff attached to the ARV programme at the KMC clinic Study design: This is a retrospective and cross- sectional study with both a descriptive and analytical component. Results: Seventy- one percent of the patients on ARVs were female with 50% of the patients being between 31 and 40 years of age. The total operating costs of running the ARV programme was R2 439 940- 90. The total cost accrued to the ARV clinic was R 1 698 003- 60. The Wellness clinic had a total cost of R 460 279- 68 and the VCT clinic accounted for the least total operating cost of R 281 657-77. The cost per patient visit was R440- 13 for the ARV clinic; R133- 05 for the VCT clinic and an amount of R61- 71 for the Wellness clinic. Conclusion This study provides the basis for determining the three cardinal cost components of the ARV programme, namely human resources, the cost of ARVs and the costs of viral load testing for the purposes of future planning and sustainability. The cost- effectiveness of ARV drugs can be improved if the healthcare providers negotiate a lower price for these drugs. The high cost due to monitoring tests can be lowered by decreasing the frequency of these tests but this may allow ARV drug resistance to be undetected.<br>Thesis (M.Med.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2008.
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Mazibuko, Josephine. "Experiences of nurse managers relating to the implementation of the collaborative TB/HIV activities at management level in Mopani District: Limpopo Province." Diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23850.
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Text in English<br>Lack of knowledge and skills among health care providers for provision of integrated TB/HIV activities for better health outcomes for co-infected patients is a public health concern. A qualitative, non-experimental, explorative and descriptive research design
based on the phenomenological philosophical tradition by Heidegger to broaden hermeneutics was conducted. The study was conducted at Mopani district to explore and describe the experiences of eligible nurse managers relating to the implementation of the TB/HIV activities at management level. A purposive sample of 14 participants was recruited and consent form obtained. An unstructured interview
guide, with a grand tour question, was used to conduct face to face individual interviews. Tesch’s method of analysis was employed until two themes, five categories and ten subcategories emerged from the data. The major findings were on challenges experienced by nurse mangers such as shortage of resources, poor planning, lack of
support by management and patient related challenges. Recommendations were based on the findings to encourage staff retention strategies, adequate funding for TB control programs, support by management, co-joint planning, team work and effective
tracing strategies.<br>Health Studies<br>M.A. (Health Studies)
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Sehume, Odilia Monica Mamane. "Evidence-based guidelines to promote the health and safety of health care workers in selected public hospitals in the Tshwane health care district in Gauteng, South Africa." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22602.
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Text in English<br>The purpose of this research was to investigate occupational health and safety challenges and their impact on health care workers (HCWs) in selected public hospitals from the Gauteng Province, South Africa.
Method: A quantitative descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted among HCWs in the study sites. A two-staged sampling that include purposive sampling of study sites and census sampling of 2000 HCWs was used. Self-administered questionnaires were used to obtain data from HCWs. In addition, two different checklists were used to conduct retrospective records reviews to assess occupational health and safety (OHS) policy compliance and occupational injuries and diseases occurrence. The SAS Release 9.3 was used to analyse data. The Fischer Exact test and Chi-square were also used to determine the association of variables and P-value was set at <0.05 to indicate significant association.
Results: A total of eight public hospitals and 926 (46.3%) HCWs who were all females nurses participated in this survey. Major occupational health hazards reported by the participants include: needle-stick injuries 275 (54.67%), slips trips and falls 67 (13.32%) and splashes 57 (11.33%). The analysis of open-ended responses indicated increased workloads, long hours of work and shift work as the most reported psychosocial hazards among HCWs.
The reviewed records indicated that back injuries 22 (4.37%), tuberculosis (TB) 17 (3.38%) and asthmatic reactions 8 (1.59%) were the commonly reported occupational injuries and diseases among the HCWs. The records review also revealed a lack in the conducting of adequate medical surveillance among participants. The results showed poor compliance with the OHS policy and a negative impact of biological and psychosocial hazards on the HCWs.
Conclusion: There was a high risk of exposures to biological hazards whilst providing care to patients, thus warranting the implementation of robust preventive measures. As a result, the guidelines were developed to promote the health and safety of HCWs with a view to promoting policy compliance and preventing the occurrence of occupational injuries and diseases as well as their impact among HCWs.<br>Health Studies<br>D.Litt et Phil. (Health Studies)
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Matlala, Mosehle Salome. "Perceptions of midwives on the shortage and retention of staff at a public hospital in Tshwane District, Gauteng Province." Diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/24409.
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Midwifery is the backbone of women and child healthcare. The shortage of staff in maternity units is a crisis faced by many countries worldwide, including South Africa. This study aims to investigate and explore the perceptions of midwives on the shortage and retention of staff in a public institution. An explorative, descriptive generic qualitative design method was followed. Non-probability, purposive sampling technique was used. The study was conducted at one tertiary hospital in the district of Tshwane, Gauteng Province. A total of 11 midwives were interviewed. Thematic coding analysis was followed in analysing data. Midwives are passionate about their job, despite the hurdles related to their day-to-day work environment. They are demoralised by a chronic shortage of staff, and feel overworked. Staff involvement in decision-making processes is a motivational factor for midwives to stay in the profession.<br>Health Studies<br>M.A. (Public Health)