Strengthening the planning and design of Objective Structured Clinical Examinations.

Background: Although Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) offer innovative, objective, and fair methods of clinical assessment, their quality is compromised by poor planning and design.

Aim: This study aimed to describe the development and present evidence-based recommendations on strengthening the planning and design of OSCEs for a South African public College of Nursing.

Setting: A South African public College of Nursing.

Qualitative Exploration of Health Professionals' Perceptions of Addressing Malnutrition Within the First 1,000 Days.

Objective: Explore health professionals' perceptions toward how to address malnutrition within the first 1,000 days of life in underresourced communities.

Design: A qualitative explorative-descriptive study using 8 face-to-face focus group discussions.

Setting: Health facilities serving underresourced communities within Nelson Mandela Bay, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

Malawian critical care nurses' views on the implementation of an educational intervention to enhance sustained use of an evidence-based endotracheal tube cuff pressure management guideline: A survey study.

Background: Evidence-based guidelines can assist critical care nurses in promoting best practices, including those related to endotracheal tube cuff pressure management. However, these guidelines require tailored strategies to enhance their implementation, uptake, and sustained use in practice.

Objectives: To evaluate Malawian critical care nurses' views on the implementation of an endotracheal tube cuff pressure management guideline to enhance sustained guideline use.

Screening and nursing management of gestational diabetes in Ghana: Evidence-based recommendations.

Objective: To describe the development of evidence-based recommendations for screening and nursing management of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in Ghana and present the recommendations.

Design: A qualitative study.

Setting: Military Health Institutions in Ghana.

Quality Management of Objective Structured Clinical Examinations at a Multicampus Nursing College: A Pilot Study.

Background: Although objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) are deemed objective and bias-free, human error, inconsistency, nonuniformity in grading, and inter-rater variability have been reported. Quality management of OSCEs therefore is crucial.

Method: Semistructured individual interviews with 14 nurse educators and a qualitative document analysis of 15 external moderators' reports were conducted.

Simulation debriefing as part of simulation for clinical teaching and learning in nursing education: A scoping review.

Aim: To map the evidence of the simulation debriefing phase in simulation activities of nursing education, to address and inform clinical teaching and learning in nursing.

Design: A scoping review.

Methods: A systematic review of literature published between 2008-2021 was conducted using CINAHL & ERIC, MEDLINE, EMBASE, APA PsycInfo, the Cochrane Library and JBI Evidence synthesis.

Screening and diagnosis of women for chorioamnionitis: An integrative literature review.

Objective: This integrative literature review provides an overview of current best research evidence on the screening and diagnosis of women for chorioamnionitis, as no current review has been conducted. An overview of best practices on screening and diagnosis of women for chorioamnionitis can assist midwives with an accurate diagnosis, allowing for early referral and adequate management of this infection.

Design: An integrative literature review was conducted using a systematic electronic literature search through EBSCOhost (CINAHL with Full Text, e-Book Collection, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, MEDLINE, Open Dissertations and PsycINFO), Cochrane Online, PubMed, Scopus, followed by a manual search for grey literature using Google and a citation search.

Screening and managing women with chorioamnionitis in resource-constrained healthcare settings: Evidence-based recommendations.

Objective: To describe the development of evidence-based recommendations on screening and managing women at risk for chorioamnionitis in resource-constrained healthcare settings.

Design: A qualitative study, using data from an integrative literature review to develop the evidence-based recommendations was conducted. The NICE guideline development principles were followed to format the recommendations, which were reviewed by expert reviewers using the AGREE II tool.

Quality management of objective structured clinical examinations: An integrative literature review.

Background: Objective Structured Clinical Examinations are widely adopted as a clinical assessment method in nurse education. Quality is an integral aspect of the design and implementation of OSCEs, facilitating their credibility and rigour. However, there is a dearth of literature regarding the management of the quality of Objective Structured Clinical Examinations.

Improving nurses' knowledge of managing endotracheal tube cuff pressure in intensive care units: A quasi-experimental study.

Background: Previous studies conducted on nurses' knowledge regarding endotracheal tube cuff pressure revealed that there were differences in intensive care nurses' knowledge, leading to varying practices.

Aim: This study aimed to evaluate how an educational intervention based on the existing evidence-based guidelines, using both passive and active implementation strategies, could improve the knowledge of nurses regarding managing endotracheal tube cuff pressures in Malawian intensive care units.

Setting: Six functional ICUs (four public and two private) in Malawi.

Integrative literature review of evidence-based patient-centred care guidelines.

Aim: To summarize what facilitates patient-centred care for adult patients in acute healthcare settings from evidence-based patient-centred care guidelines.

Design: An integrative literature review.

Data Sources: The following data sources were searched between 2002-2020: Citation databases: CINAHL, Medline, Biomed Central, Academic Search Complete, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition and Google Scholar.

Clinical teaching practices of nurse educators at a public college of nursing in South Africa: A survey study.

Standardisation of clinical teaching practices by nurse educators for undergraduate students is vital, especially within large nursing education institutions distributed over multiple campuses. This quantitative study investigated current clinical teaching practices of nurse educators at a Public College of Nursing in South Africa. A total of n = 68 nurse educators were selected from 5 campuses over a two-month period (April-May 2016), using convenience sampling.

Guidelines for the nursing management of gestational diabetes mellitus: An integrative literature review.

Aims And Objectives: An integrative literature review searched for, selected, appraised, extracted and synthesized data from existing available guidelines on the nursing management of gestational diabetes mellitus as no such analysis has been found.

Background: Early screening, diagnosis and management of gestational diabetes mellitus are important to prevent or reduce complications during and postpregnancy for both mother and child. A variety of guidelines exists, which assist nurses and midwives in the screening, diagnosis and management of gestational diabetes mellitus.

Nursing management of gestational diabetes mellitus in Ghana: Perspectives of nurse-midwives and women.

Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is defined as any degree of glucose intolerance that is observed in the beginning of, or first acknowledged during pregnancy. The prevalence of GDM is estimated to be approximately 15% globally and is expected to increase due to growing numbers of overweight and obesity in women in their reproductive age. The nursing management of GDM in terms of lifestyle modifications (exercise, diet and nutrition) and the taking of diabetes medication, if required, and adherence thereto is crucial to prevent maternal and neonatal-perinatal complications.

Cultural factors that influence the treatment of osteosarcoma in Zulu patients: Healthcare professionals' perspectives and strategies.

Purpose: International and national research regarding the discussion of cancer treatment across cultural boundaries is sparse. This study was conducted in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where healthcare encounters are largely culturally discordant; and this study focused on adult Zulu patients diagnosed with osteosarcoma. The purpose of this research study was to identify the cultural factors associated with discussing the different treatment options - and to explore healthcare professionals' responses to these cultural factors - from the healthcare professionals' perspective.

Provision of antiretroviral therapy for children in Nelson Mandela Bay: Health care professionals' challenges.

Background:  The human immunodeficiency virus and/or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) pandemic continues to increase in prevalence worldwide, particularly in South Africa, and includes the often overlooked paediatric population. The provision of paediatric antiretroviral treatment (ART) is as essential for children as for adults, and has numerous obstacles, not least of which is lack of decentralisation of facilities to provide essential treatment. Optimising ART, care and support for HIV-positive children, and their caregivers, at public sector primary health care (PHC) clinics is crucial to improve morbidity and mortality rates in children.

A comprehensive literature review of guidelines facilitating transition of newly graduated nurses to professional nurses.

Literature shows that successful transition of newly graduate nurses to professional nurses is imperative but does not always take place, resulting in difficulty in performance, cognizance or behaviour of a role as a nurse, affecting the quality of patient care negatively. No integrative literature review could be found to summarize available guidelines facilitating transition of final year nursing students to professional nurses. An extensive search of the literature by means of an integrative literature review was conducted in 2014 and updated in June 2017, following a five-step process.

Strategies and challenges for communicating the diagnosis of cancer in cross-cultural clinical settings-Perspectives from South African healthcare professionals.

Communicating the diagnosis of cancer in cross-cultural clinical settings is a complex task. This qualitative research article describes the content and process of informing Zulu patients in South Africa of the diagnosis of cancer, using osteosarcoma as the index diagnosis. We used a descriptive research design with census sampling and focus group interviews.

Development and preliminary validation of a scale to measure self-efficacy in seeking mental health care (SE-SMHC).

Purpose: Globally, the prevalence of mental illness is on the rise, although few people with psychiatric disorders actually seek mental health care. One under-researched factor that may impact help-seeking behavior from health care professionals is self-efficacy. This research presents the development and validation of the Self-Efficacy to Seek Mental Health Care (SE-SMHC) scale, a nine item-self report measure.