New Graduate Nurses' Experiences and Challenges during a One-Year Clinical Rotation Programme in the Volta Region of Ghana: Implications for Nursing Management and Nursing Workforce Retention.

Background: To help improve the standards and quality of nursing practice, newly graduated nurses and midwives are required after passing the Nursing and Midwifery Council's Licensing Examination to undertake a one-year mandatory clinical rotation at health facilities before registration. However, there is a lack of scientific studies to explore new graduate nurses' experiences and challenges during the one-year mandatory clinical rotation programme.

Aim: This study is aimed at exploring newly qualified nurses' experiences and challenges during the one-year mandatory clinical rotation in health facilities in the Volta Region of Ghana.

Older people's challenges and expectations of healthcare in Ghana: A qualitative study.

Background: The increase in the number of elderly persons in developing countries has not had a corresponding increase in social and health care support systems for the elderly. There is a substantial difference in the quality of healthcare received by older people in developing and developed countries. Elderly persons in developing countries including Ghana are increasingly becoming marginalised and isolated.

Contributing factors to unsafe abortion practices among women of reproductive age at selected district hospitals in the Ashanti region of Ghana.

Background: Despite the existence of an abortion law and a safe abortion policy in Ghana, the Ghana Statistical Service found that 15% of all women in the reproductive age group (15-49 years) have practiced unsafe abortions. The objective of this study was to explore factors that contribute to the high incidence of unsafe abortion practices in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.

Methods: A qualitative descriptive study design was used to assess factors that contribute to unsafe abortion practices.

Clinical placement experiences by undergraduate nursing students in selected teaching hospitals in Ghana.

Background: In meeting the global standard of patient safety, quality care and nursing leadership, countries are urged by the World Health Organisation to have a greater proportion of nurses educated to degree level or higher. However, some researchers have found that there are very little differences in competencies of diploma registered nurses and first degree nurses in some countries. University education in nursing remains problematic and there are many disparities in the programmes currently being offered in different parts of the world.