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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Professional nurses who are employed in trauma units face many stressors in their work place. Yet they all cope with the stress in different ways. One of the methods that professional nurses use is to vent traumatic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Background: While much is written about childhood sexual abuse (CSA) in South Africa, most of this literature addresses the deleterious impact of CSA. There are limited international studies on resilience processes of ...

The South African National Blood Services (SANBS) has to collect 3000 units of blood every day to ensure sufficient safe blood supply for South Africa. This blood is collected from voluntary non-remunerated donors. The ...