An application of the caritative caring approach - nursing students' experiences of practising caring and uncaring encounters by simulation at a clinical training centre.

Purpose: Nurses' lack of competence to be caring affects patients' health and patients describe a desire for more individual and compassionate care. Nursing education tends, however, to focus less on the caring approach in nursing practice and more on developing knowledge in psychomotor skills. The aim of this study was to describe nursing students' experiences of simulating caring and uncaring encounters founded on the caritative perspective at a Clinical Training Centre (CTC).

Schistosomiasis Presenting as Recurring Sigmoid Volvulus in a Danish Man With an Inconspicuous Travel History-A Case Report.

A healthy 72-year-old Danish male presenting with recurring sigmoid volvulus was found to be infested with . No other explanation for recurring volvulus was found. A travel history 12 years ago, which included bathing in the Botswana Okavango delta for 10 minutes, revealed the likely time and place of infection.

Antiretroviral therapy adherence strategies used by patients of a large HIV clinic in Lesotho.

A high degree of adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is necessary for long term treatment effects. This study explores the role of timing of ART intake, the information patients received from health workers, local adherence patterns, barriers to and facilitators of ART among 28 HIV-positive adults at the Senkatana HIV Clinic in Maseru, Lesotho. This qualitative, semi-structured interview study was carried out during February and March of 2011 and responses were analyzed inspired by the Grounded Theory method.