An effective educator-student relationship is a key factor to ensure a positive learning climate where learning can take place. Educators must work together to build caring relationships with students, provide support to ...

Background: A shortage of nurses is experienced in aged care as these nurses experience adverse working conditions. Resilience might empower these nurses to survive, thrive and even flourish. A paucity of research exists ...

Nurse managers of private hospitals play a critical role in ensuring that quality care is delivered to all entrusted to their care. The challenges within the private healthcare sector, shortage of staff, increased stress ...

Background: Professional nurses are given multiple roles and responsibilities and due to today’s pressured work environment of endless multi-tasking and multiple priorities, nurses run the risk that their caring presence ...

Resilience is an attribute that is of great importance when it comes to retain nurses in the profession and to ensure quality patient care. An individual’s resilience in the workplace promotes their job satisfaction, good ...

The nursing shortage is a huge concern in the healthcare sector both worldwide and in South Africa. This shortage of nurses can have an impact on the quality of patient outcomes in the healthcare sector. The current nursing ...

The mining healthcare sector is faced with many challenges, including high levels of occupational injury and illness, high levels of non-occupational diseases (e.g. HIV/AIDS, chronic diseases) and high staff turnover. Given ...

Background: The primary reason for nurses to enter this profession is because of their caring nature. Pressure, work load, having to juggle multiple roles and staff shortages; however, make them vulnerable to emotional ...

The 2008 World Health Report emphasises that we need “primary health care (PHC) now more than ever”. Competent primary health care providers who “put people first” are required in the front line in order to make a difference. ...