Registered general nurses' health assessment practices in a tertiary hospital: A focused ethnography study.

Aim: To explore the assumptions and values that influence nursing health assessment practices among registered general nurses in general medical and surgical wards.

Design: The study was designed as a focused ethnography.

Methods: A semi-structured interview guide was used to explore prevailing nursing health assessment practices of 13 registered general nurses in an attempt to explore the assumptions and values influencing health assessment practices in the study setting.

Curriculum framework to facilitate critical thinking skills of undergraduate nursing students: A cooperative inquiry approach.

Aim: Critical thinking (CT) is vital in assisting nurses to function efficiently in the ever-changing health care environment. A CT-based curriculum framework provides the impetus necessary to drive the acquisition of CT skills of students. Yet, there is no known CT-based framework contextualized to developing countries where seniority tradition is a norm.

Critical thinking disposition of nursing students: A quantitative investigation.

Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the critical thinking (CT) disposition of students in a nursing school. This assessment is part of a larger study aimed at developing a CT-based curriculum framework for an undergraduate nursing educational program in a developing country.

Design: A quantitative descriptive cross-sectional design was used to assess the CT disposition of undergraduate nursing students.

Assessing Patients' Knowledge on Anesthesia Services at Tamale Teaching Hospital.

Anesthesia is one of the most significant developments of modern medicine that allows treatment involving unbearable pain to be performed while the person is relaxed, asleep, and with no memory of the procedure. However, patients around the world have little or limited knowledge regarding anesthesia. It is in view of that, this study was undertaken to assess patients' knowledge on anesthesia services at a preanesthetic clinic and recovery wards of a teaching hospital in Northern Ghana.

Clinical teaching of university-degree nursing students: are the nurses in practice in Uganda ready?

Background: Nurses with degree qualifications offer better nursing care compared to nurses prepared at lower levels. University based nursing degrees have been sanctioned as entry into professional nursing and several low-resource states have introduced university based nursing degrees. The clinical teaching of students enrolled in such degrees is challenged, as most nurses in practice do not have university degrees and may not have the necessary skills to facilitate clinical learning as expected at degree level.

Critical thinking skills of nursing students: Observations of classroom instructional activities.

Aim: Critical thinking (CT) is vital for nursing practice. Nursing schools should provide learning experiences that enable nursing students to acquire CT skills. Yet, these authors are not aware of any study that has directly observed instructional activities related to CT skills acquisition in the classroom environment.

Patient Participation in Nursing Care: Views From Ghanaian Nurses, Nursing Students, and Patients.

Previous studies on patient participation reported inconclusive benefits of patient participation in health care. Consequently, the World Health Organization is actively highlighting the need for the participation of patients and their families in their care. The aim of this study was to explore the views of nurses, nursing students, and patients on patient participation in Ghanaian hospitals.

Experiences and perceptions of the theory-practice gap in nursing in a resource-constrained setting: A qualitative description study.

Aim: To describe experiences and perceptions of theory-practice gap in nursing in a resource-constrained setting. Theory-practice gap is extensively discussed and studied in some parts of the world. Interventions to bridge the theory-practice gap have been varied and depend on an understanding of the contextual healthcare environment.

Qualitative inquiry into Registered General Nurses' experiences in the emergency centre.

Introduction: Though nurses are frontline workers in emergency care, their experiences in emergency centres are seldom researched. This study explored lived experiences of Registered General Nurses working in emergency centres.

Methods: This study employed an exploratory qualitative design.

The State of Nursing Research in Ghana: An Integrative Literature Review.

Introduction: For nursing practice to be responsive to the needs of patients, it must be driven by contextual research evidence. To guide institutional and national nursing research policy, there is need to determine the quantity and quality of nursing research in Ghana.

Purpose: The purpose of this integrative literature review was to quantify, critically evaluate, and describe nursing research publication in Ghana from January 2007 to December 2016 with regard to the country's research capacity to sustain evidence-based practice.

Qualitative Inquiry into Challenges Experienced by Registered General Nurses in the Emergency Department: A Study of Selected Hospitals in the Volta Region of Ghana.

Registered General Nurses (RGNs) play crucial roles in emergency departments (EDs). EDs in Ghana are primarily staffed by RGNs who have had no additional formal education in emergency care. Additionally, basic, master's, or doctoral level nursing education programs provide limited content on the complexities of emergency nursing.

Nurse educators' perceptions of critical thinking in developing countries: Ghana as a case study.

The ability to critically evaluate information for the purpose of rendering health care is a prerequisite for modern nurses in a complex and ever-changing health care environment. The nurse educators' perceptions influence the utilization of critical thinking strategies in the classroom. The purpose of this study was to assess nursing faculty's perceptions of critical thinking.

The nature of leadership style in nursing management.

The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of leadership styles used by nurse managers, and describe staff nurses' perceptions of leadership styles. Effective leadership among nurse managers has been associated with staff nurse job satisfaction and retention. Twenty staff nurses from two hospitals in Ghana responded to tape-recorded interview questions.