Impact of anxiety-related conditions on nursing students' academic excellence.

Background:  Nursing students often experience high anxiety and depression because of the demanding nursing curriculum. This mental strain can harm their academic performance. As a result, nurse educators need to assess how anxiety impacts nursing students' academic achievements.

Online learning challenges as experienced by nursing students during the COVID-19 pandemic at a higher education institution in Gauteng, South Africa.

Aim: To explore and describe challenges experienced by nursing students in online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic at a higher education institution in Gauteng, South Africa.

Background: COVID-19 pandemic disrupted nursing education in South African Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Learning had to shift to online, which posed challenges for some nursing students, such as poor internet connectivity related to power outages.

Moral distress among critical care nurses when excecuting do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders in a public critical care unit in Gauteng.

Background: A critical care unit admits on a daily basis patients who are critically ill or injured. The condition of these patients' may deteriorate to a point where the medical practitioner may prescribe or decide on a 'do not resuscitate' (DNR) order which must be executed by a professional nurse, leading to moral distress which may manifest as poor teamwork, depression or absenteeism.

Objectives: To explore and describe factors contributing to moral distress of critical care nurses executing DNR orders.

Online teaching and learning: Experiences of students in a nursing college during the onset of COVID-19.

Background:  The world has entered the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Utilisation of technology is inevitable. For the past years, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has halted normal operations, including in the physical classroom for nursing students.

Infection prevention and control practices of non-medical individuals in a neonatal intensive care unit: A Donabedian approach.

Objective: To describe the infection prevention and control practices of non-medical individuals in a neonatal intensive care unit, using the Donabedian model.

Design: We used an observational descriptive qualitative approach, collecting data over 38 h of non-participant, unstructured observations. An interprofessional observational team recorded their observations.

The stress of the midwife: Experiences of advanced midwives working in obstetric emergency units in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Obstetric emergencies account for the majority of causes of maternal deaths. The major causes of maternal and neonatal deaths in obstetric emergencies include bleeding, pregnancy-induced hypertension, cord prolapse, shoulder dystocia, poor progress, placenta abruptio, placenta praevia and amniotic fluid embolism. These adverse labour and birth events cause emergency situations and trauma for the nursing staff involved.