Enhancing nurse faculty resilience through self-leadership: guidelines for resource mobilization in dynamic academic environments.

The purpose of the study was to develop guidelines for the facilitation of self-leadership in nurse faculty. Of the 12 guidelines developed, this paper discusses the two related to resilience through self-leadership practices, namely: encouraging reliance on internal sources for self-preservation; and strengthening the positive self-image of nurse faculty through management and peer support. An exploratory, sequential mixed-methods design was used to guide the development of guidelines.

Towards Decolonizing the Self: Nurse Educators' Engagement in Personal Mastery.

Nursing education in South Africa is undergoing reforms to respond to changes brought about by a new higher education qualifications framework. These reforms are happening in an era when leaders, educators, and students in higher education institutions are engaged in dialogs about decolonizing institutions, curricula, and pedagogy. Of the numerous calls for this decolonization, few have given attention to decolonizing the self.

An autonomy-supportive climate for facilitation of self-leadership in health sciences educators.

Background: The authors have observed that studies on autonomy-supportive climates in academic settings mostly focus on educator-facilitated supportive environments that motivate students towards improved performance. Yet, little is known about how academic institutions teaching nursing can facilitate autonomy-supportive climates that enhance health sciences educators' self-leadership practices.

Aim: This article discusses 'autonomy-supportive climate', a factor that emerged as a self-leadership practice construct, and how it can be promoted in academic institutions to facilitate self-leadership practices in health sciences educators.

Educators' ability to use concept mapping as a tool to facilitate meaningful learning.

: Meaningful learning is enhanced when concepts are visually differentiated, linked to or nested under other concepts, resulting in integrative reconciliation of knowledge and understanding. Competence in using concept mapping as a strategy to support students towards meaningful learning, is essential.: The aim of the study was to describe the nature of the concept maps drawn by educators after a symposium on concept maps to transfer educational knowledge to the classroom.

The educator as facilitator of trust in the nursing education environment.

Background: Trust and trusting are inclinations to believe in the honesty and sincerity of a person. Trust and trusting relationships in nursing education form the foundation of safety, acknowledging vulnerabilities and allowing reciprocal expectations and beliefs to rely on each other during the teaching and learning process. The purpose of this article is to explore the views of nurse educators in facilitating trust and trusting relationships during teaching and learning.

Motivation as a facilitator of self-leadership in nurse academics.

Background: Although working in an academic environment can be rewarding and fulfilling, there are instances when nurse academics are exposed to situations that can negatively affect their motivation to teach. Few studies have been conducted regarding how motivational factors can facilitate self-leadership in nurse academics at academic nursing institutions. This study is aimed at developing guidelines to facilitate nurse academics' self-leadership.

A model to foster and facilitate trust and trusting relationships in the nursing education context.

Background: In the nursing education context, the fostering of trust and establishing trusting relationships are important facets of teaching and learning.

Aim: The purpose of the study was to understand trust and trusting relationships in teaching and learning, and to develop a model to foster and facilitate trust and trusting relationships in the nursing education context.

Setting: Two nursing education institutions were purposively sampled that offered a comprehensive programme in nursing.

Perceptions and experiences of nurse managers of the implementation of the baby and mother friendly initiative in Namibia: a qualitative study.

Background: The baby and mother friendly initiative is a breastfeeding programme in Namibia aimed to protect, promote and support breastfeeding. The purpose of this study was to describe nurse managers' perceptions and experiences of implementing the baby and mother friendly initiative in order to identify its successes and failures, as well as to develop guidelines for the strengthening of the programme.

Methods: An evaluation research design to collect qualitative data through face-to-face interviews was conducted.

Bridging the gap between self-directed learning of nurse educators and effective student support.

Background: Self-directed learning requires the ability to identify one's own learning needs, develop and implement a plan to gain knowledge and to monitor one's own progress. A lifelong learning approach cannot be forced, since it is in essence an internally driven process. Nurse educators can, however, act as role models to empower their students to become independent learners by modelling their own self-directed learning and applying a number of techniques in supporting their students in becoming ready for self-directed learning.

Challenges in the management of support and care programmes for child-headed households in South Africa.

Aims: The present study reports on data collected in a larger study on 'A situational analysis of child-headed households in South Africa'. The purpose of this study was to explore the management and control of available and required services, resources and safety nets for children in child-headed households.

Background: The significance of having a better understanding of the challenges, limitations but importance for government structures to manage and control programmes will enhance the implementation and maintenance of focused and sustainable support structures and programmes which will effectively address the needs of child-headed households.

Factors influencing utilization of voluntary counseling and testing service in Kasenyi fishing community in Uganda.

This article reports on part of a study that described models of voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) service delivery and analyzed how a model influenced uptake of VCT services in a Ugandan community. A quantitative, exploratory, and descriptive design was used. Respondents (N = 127, 52% male, 48% female) provided data during structured interviews.

Children's rights in the context of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa.

Children in Southern Africa are living under extreme, difficult circumstances because of the spread of HIV/AIDS. Protecting and enhancing the rights of children can be regarded as an investment in the future. The principles identified in the World Fit for Children document from the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, within the context of HIV/AIDS, were used as a theoretical framework for a study conducted in one of the provinces of South Africa.