Navigating end-of-life care dilemmas: a qualitative inquiry of nurses' and midwives' knowledge of euthanasia and circumstantial factors influencing euthanasia in a resource-constraint setting.

Background: Deaths can be caused by terminal illnesses, accidents, or natural disasters. However, medically, death can be hastened by healthcare providers, patients themselves, or their relatives. In advanced cancers where the patient's quality of life is compromised, Euthanasia can be used to hasten death.

Financial strain and resilience: a qualitative exploration of parental perspectives on caring for children with sickle cell disease in Ghana.

Background: In Ghana, nearly one in four (25%) of the population are sickle cell disease carriers. Furthermore, 2% of all babies born (20 for every 1000 live births) has sickle cell disease. However, little is known about how parents negotiate the financial challenges facing parents of a child with sickle cell disease.

Fathers' experiences of caring for children living with cerebral palsy: A qualitative study in a low resourced socioeconomic context, Ghana.

Background: In Ghana, little is known about fathers' experiences caring for children with cerebral palsy.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore a. the caregiving demand and burden on fathers of children with cerebral palsy and b.

Health advocacy role performance of nurses in underserved populations: A grounded theory study.

Aim: Nurses' health advocacy (HA) role requires them to speak up for patients, clients, and communities in relation to healthcare. Various studies report the importance of the HA role of the nurse in healthcare. However, nurses' performance in this role is not clear yet.

Barriers to nurses health advocacy role.

Background: Speaking up to safeguard patients is a crucial ethical and moral obligation for nurses, but it is also a difficult and potentially dangerous component of nursing work. Health advocacy is gaining impetus in the medical literature, despite being hampered by barriers resulting in many nurses in Ghana remaining mute when faced with advocacy-required situations. We explored situations that thwart nurses from performing their health advocacy role.

A call for total nursing role reformation: Perceptions of Ghanaian nurses.

Nurses in Ghana believe that training, practise, practitioner and policy reforms are required for total nursing profession reform to be effective. Their views for role reformation in the nursing profession, which is currently needed, are not only academic but also clinically relevant in the pursuit of health equity and quality nursing care. We explored and described nurses' views on their roles in the profession using data collected from 24 professional nurses in three regional hospitals in Ghana.

Facilitators of the health advocacy role practice of the nurse in Ghana: A qualitative study.

Background: Identifying facilitators of health advocacy role practice of nurses is important in reducing health disparities and inequities in Ghana. The struggle to reducing these disparities and inequities needs a combination of bravery, courage, and professionalism. In many instances, many barriers hinder nurses from practicing their health advocacy role in Ghana.

Nursing students' perceptions of soft skills training in Ghana.

Background: The quality of nursing care rendered today is markedly reducing and the amount of time spent with patients listening to and explaining issues concerning their conditions is gradually diminishing. The therapeutic touch and the listening ear of the nurse are no longer accessible to the patient. Understanding what non-technical skills are and their relevance for healthcare practitioners has become a new area of consideration.