{"title":"Experiences and coping strategies of perinatally bereaved mothers with the loss","authors":"Sarat Onaolapo Eniola, Appiah Boateng Edward, Apiribu Felix, Millicent Dzomeku Veronica","doi":"10.5897/ijnm2020.0420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/ijnm2020.0420","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored the experiences, coping strategies, and support systems available for perinatally bereaved mothers. A descriptive phenomenological design was employed to explore lived experiences of perinatally bereaved mothers and saturation was reached with the 12th participant. Participants were recruited through purposive sampling and data was collected by in-depth, individual and face-to-face interviews. Data analysis was guided by Colaizzi’s method. From the results, four main themes emerged – deprived care, immediate reactions to the loss, painful reminders of the loss, and coping strategies. Participants felt that deprived care contributed to their loss, and continuous support required in managing it was mostly lacking. Participants employed various strategies in coping with the loss, including self-motivation and religious beliefs. Thus, clinicians need to be more vigilant and ensure that mothers and neonates receive adequate care. Increasing awareness of the support needs of perinatally bereaved mothers could rally emotional support for them during grieving moments. \u0000 \u0000 Key words: Perinatal loss, perinatal bereavement, bereaved mothers, experiences, coping strategies, Kumasi, Ghana.","PeriodicalId":91293,"journal":{"name":"International journal of nursing (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5897/ijnm2020.0420","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71129383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health Disparities among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Population in Ghana","authors":"Nathaniel Acolatse","doi":"10.21522/tijnr.2015.06.01.art009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21522/tijnr.2015.06.01.art009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91293,"journal":{"name":"International journal of nursing (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"6 1","pages":"84-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44404205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Student Nurse’s Clinical Learning Environment: Clinical Teachers’ Perspective","authors":"Benuis Kaliyangile","doi":"10.21522/tijnr.2015.06.01.art006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21522/tijnr.2015.06.01.art006","url":null,"abstract":"The study attempted to answer the following research questions; what factors influence student nurses’ clinical learning during their clinical practice allocation and how does clinical learning environment influence student nurses learning? A phenomenological approach methodology was used to conduct the study. Eight clinical teachers at Rusangu University in Monze participated in study. The findings showed that study participants provided teaching and learning support to student nurses on attachment and integrated theory into practice by either discussing conditions or observing and demonstrating procedures when students were in the clinical areas. They also stated that communication was also good among the school staff and students. The study revealed that students face challenges during students’ placements in their respective clinical sites. The main challenges included lack of medical surgical supplies, equipment and stationary s and students congesting the ward coming from different schools of nursing. This made teaching and learning for student’s difficulty. The study suggests a necessity to use to look into the challenges faced by the clinical teachers in order to facilitate learning in clinical practice and creating a conducive clinical learning environment.","PeriodicalId":91293,"journal":{"name":"International journal of nursing (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"6 1","pages":"59-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41405818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors Influencing Student Nurses’ Clinical Learning during their Clinical Practice at Rusangu University, Monze campus, Zambia","authors":"Benius Kaliyangile","doi":"10.21522/tijnr.2015.06.01.art003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21522/tijnr.2015.06.01.art003","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Clinical skills acquisition is an essential part of nurse training. However, acquisition of clinical skills could be influenced by the clinical learning environment. The objective of the study was to explore factors influencing student nurses’ learning during clinical practice and develop guidelines for learning enhancement. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at Rusangu University in Monze, Southern Province and the study population were nursing students. A total of 50 respondents participated in the study. A proportional stratified random sampling method was used to select the sample. Data was collected using a self-administered questionnaire; analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software for Windows version 20. Pearson Chi-Square was used to assess relationship of specific factors and students’ learning experience with a significance level of 0.05. Results: 50% of the respondents were aged between 21 and 25 years of age, 64% were females whereas 36% were males. Students level of training, 50% were in fourth and above year and 40% were allocated to the clinical area for a minimum of one to two weeks duration. Students overall rating for clinical learning was average at 54%; availability of clinical teachers and Ward Managers was rated at 70%. Communication among students and staff was rated as being good at 58%; 66% of the respondents said staff had a positive attitude towards them. A significant association between level of training and support received during first week of placement (p= 0.000) and time allocated to the unit or ward (p= 0.045) was found Staff shortage, lack of equipment and medical surgical supplies, short practice time in some specialised units, inaccessible ward managers for consultations and clinical supervisors affected students learning. Conclusion: The School should address the above-mentioned factors and design strategies to improve the clinical learning environment.","PeriodicalId":91293,"journal":{"name":"International journal of nursing (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"6 1","pages":"28-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47260307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Buser, C. Boyd, C. Moyer, D. Zulu, A. Ngoma-Hazemba, Jessy Taona Mtenje, A. Jones, J. Lori
{"title":"A case series of maternal-newborn delivery outcomes in rural Zambia","authors":"J. Buser, C. Boyd, C. Moyer, D. Zulu, A. Ngoma-Hazemba, Jessy Taona Mtenje, A. Jones, J. Lori","doi":"10.5897/IJNM2019.0406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/IJNM2019.0406","url":null,"abstract":"In rural Zambia, pregnant mothers are referred from rural primary health facilities designed to provide Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (BEmONC) to district hospitals where Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (CEmONC) can be provided when needed. Maternity waiting homes (MWH) are residential dwellings where mothers can await delivery and may offer a possible early referral source to CEmONC, ultimately serving as an intervention to improve maternal-newborn delivery outcomes. This case series study aimed to advance an understanding of maternal-newborn delivery outcomes for mothers referred from health facilities with and without MWHs to one district referral hospital. A retrospective medical record review of district-level data was performed to compare maternal-newborn delivery outcomes for cases referred from five BEmONC health facilities with and five without MWHs to a CEmONC district referral hospital. Information about MWH use was not recorded in the delivery register, and is unknown. Among all cases (n = 234) referred to a district hospital from facilities with and without MWHs, referrals were more likely to come from facilities with MWHs. Most were referred from facilities more than 12km from the district referral hospital. There were no statistically significant differences in newborn delivery outcomes for cases referred from MWH and non-MWH facilities. More cases with prolonged labor were referred from facilities associated with a MWH than without a MWH (37.3 vs. 23.9%). Access to a MWH may have brought mothers closer to a facility where prolonged labor was recognized and emergency referral was made for obstetric management. \u0000 \u0000 Key words: Newborn health, maternal health, pregnancy complications, delivery outcomes, Zambia.","PeriodicalId":91293,"journal":{"name":"International journal of nursing (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"12 1","pages":"32-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44459332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the Health Effects of Gender Based Violence on Female Survivors: A Case of Chipata City in Zambia","authors":"B. Banda","doi":"10.21522/tijnr.2015.06.01.art005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21522/tijnr.2015.06.01.art005","url":null,"abstract":"Social and cultural beliefs in different communities of Zambia have continued to perpetrate Gender Based Violence and this has affected victims in many ways. The impact of GBV has led to an increase in morbidity and mortality rates globally after its physical, mental, emotional and social inflictions on the victims. This has placed a cost on the quality of life as lifestyle changes occur. Therefore, the aim of this study was to establish the socio-cultural factors that are associated with Gender Based Violence in Chipata City. This study adopted an explorative mixed method design. The study sequentially collected quantitative and qualitative data. Responses were gotten from 381 respondents. The sample was deduced from 1,922 female victims were registered from 2014 to 2016 at the GBV One Stop Centre. The discussions about the study revealed that and weak community support, poor relationships, alcohol and poverty, are among the major contributing factors to GBV. The major health effects could be either physical implications like a loss of an organ after assault, unwanted pregnancies and STI infections. Most of these findings were attributed to the spouses/partners. Sensitization, in this case, could be the answer to curb the incidences of GBV. In conclusion, the study explored the experiences female survivors in Chipata city have had following Gender Based Violence. Socio-cultural and economic factors have had a major impact in enhancing GBV and victims mentioned that poverty, substance abuse and inactive law enforcement directly fueled the acts of violence. The key recommendation is massive sensitization about GBV and reinforcing laws to strengthen the curbing of violence.","PeriodicalId":91293,"journal":{"name":"International journal of nursing (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"6 1","pages":"47-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49570358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Different Learning Methods on Nursing Students Learning Styles at the University of Lahore, Pakistan","authors":"M. Afzal","doi":"10.21522/tijnr.2015.06.01.art004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21522/tijnr.2015.06.01.art004","url":null,"abstract":"Blended learning (BL) is positive development in education. This method provokes the learner’s critical thinking and given different ways for implementation of their knowledge in real life. The objective of the study is to determine the difference of blended learning teaching strategy and lecturebased teaching strategy on the learning outcome of the undergraduate nursing students in Lahore, Pakistan. Quasi experimental study design was used by utilizing control and experimental groups for comprising two methods of students learning. 197 participants were recruited in control group and experimental groups. The study sample was determined through the convenient sampling method. In this study the establishing reliability and construct validity of the tool was 0.7 and 0.75 respectively. In addition to this internal consistency Cronbach's coefficient alpha was computed 0.70. Generally, the reliability and validity were considered acceptable and satisfactory above 0.70. The results findings revealed that blended learning has significant relationship with awareness (p= < 0.02) learning strategies (p= < 0.07) learning activities (p=< 0.06), evaluation (p=0.04) among the experimental groups. In the conclusion, blended learning significantly improves the learning of the students and provides the space for better skills in the clinical setting simultaneously. Thereafter, institutions, policy makers and regulatory bodies should incorporate this strategy in the nursing curriculum in Pakistan.","PeriodicalId":91293,"journal":{"name":"International journal of nursing (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"6 1","pages":"38-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68114387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of Postoperative Care Program on Leg Pain and Functional Performance after Lumbar Spine Surgery","authors":"Amornrat Sangsaikaew","doi":"10.21522/tijnr.2015.06.01.art007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21522/tijnr.2015.06.01.art007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91293,"journal":{"name":"International journal of nursing (New York, N.Y.)","volume":" ","pages":"63-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45255775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Postoperative Pain Assessment and Management among Health Care Practitioners in Cape Coast Metropolis, Ghana","authors":"R. Walters","doi":"10.21522/tijnr.2015.06.01.art001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21522/tijnr.2015.06.01.art001","url":null,"abstract":"Postoperative patients experience moderates to severe pain within first 48 hours and this minimizes comfort. This study aims to establish level of nurses’ knowledge, attitudes and practices of postoperative pain assessment and management in Cape Coast. A descriptive quantitative, crosssectional research design was used. A purposive sampling technique was used to select a sample of 200 nurse anaesthetists and registered nurses from Cape Coast Teaching Hospital and Cape Coast Metropolitan Hospital, Central Region, Ghana. The respondents’ knowledge, attitudes and practices of postoperative pain management were evaluated using opened and closed-ended questionnaires. The findings of the study revealed, more than half of the respondents stated that postoperative pain is best told by the patients themselves but significant number 34% stated health care practitioners can best tell patient pain intensity. Less than half of the respondents observed the effect of pain medication on patients. Almost half of the respondents agreed patients would be addicted when they are given opioids analgesics. It was concluded that there were adequate knowledge of postoperative pain assessment and management among respondents but there is knowledge gap with regards to who best tell if patient experiences pain or not. Knowledge and practices of postoperative pain assessment and management were statistically significantly related and there is a strong relationship between knowledge and practice of postoperative pain assessment management. It was recommended that pain assessment and management should be done before and after administration of analgesia. Pain medications such as opioids should be given as and when necessary.","PeriodicalId":91293,"journal":{"name":"International journal of nursing (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"6 1","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48389804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowledge of Nurses in Holistic Care of a Child with Delayed Developmental Milestone and Cerebral Palsy","authors":"Gloria Tonye Dikibo","doi":"10.21522/tijnr.2015.06.01.art008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21522/tijnr.2015.06.01.art008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91293,"journal":{"name":"International journal of nursing (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"6 1","pages":"70-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44867507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}