BACKGROUND Clinical facilitation is an essential part of the undergraduate nursing curriculum. A number of studies address the issue of clinical facilitation in South Africa, but there remains a lack of knowledge and understanding regarding what students perceive as best practice in clinical facilitation of their learning. OBJECTIVE To determine what type of clinical facilitation undergraduat...

Background The Lancet Commission and the Global Health Workforce Alliance reported that professional education has generally not kept up the pace of health care challenges. Sub Saharan Africa needs an effective and efficient nursing education system to build an adequate, competent and relevant nursing workforce necessary for the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals. The Plan of Action f...

background: aspiration pneumonia is a potentially preventable illness requiring attention to small details of patient care. the type, management, and care of feeding should be carried out properly. materials andmethods: this is a prospective clinical study of enteral feeding on patients admitted to hospital with aspiration pneumonia. the known enteral nutritional methods, advantages,and disadva...

OBJECTIVE To describe the introduction of complementary foods in a population-based cohort in relation to recommendations and explore the possible impact of maternal education on infant feeding practices. DESIGN Prospective data from the All Babies in Southeast Sweden (ABIS) cohort study were used. The ABIS study invited all infants born in south-east Sweden during October 1997-October 1999 (...

PURPOSE To describe international trends on the developing role of the nurse practitioner-advanced practice nurse (NP-APN), including nomenclature, levels and types of NP-APN education, practice settings, scope of practice, regulatory policies, and political environment. DESIGN A cross-sectional, descriptive Web-based survey sent in February and March 2008 to a total of 174 key informants and...

DEMOGRAPHICS Case Title: Dante Jackson’s Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Repair (Cardiovascular collapse from a “high spinal”). Patient Name: Dante Jackson. Case Description and Diagnosis: A spinal anesthetic that results in cardiovascular collapse in a 24-year-old healthy male presenting for repair of the left ACL injury. Simulation Developers: Yetunde Olutunmbi, MD; William McIvor, MD; and J...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The duration of exclusive breast-feeding in Bangladesh is low. Though several studies have been carried out on breast-feeding in Bangladesh, the factors influencing the duration of breast-feeding are not studied. The purpose of this study was to assess the duration of breast-feeding among children in Bangladesh and to study socio-economic and demographic factors affectin...

OBJECTIVE of this study is to investigate the prevalence, duration, practices and barriers of Exclusive breast feeding (EBF) among Jordanian mothers in three major governorates. DESIGN longitudinal, prospective design was used in this study. SETTINGS AND PARTICIPANTS convenience sample of 572 pairs of postpartum mothers-infants were recruited from postpartum wards at three governmental hosp...

results the findings indicated that although mothers were aware of breastfeeding benefits and regarded it as their responsibility, in few cases, neonates were fed by items other than breast milk. exclusive breast feeding was not followed precisely. pregnancy of mothers, lack of knowledge, misinformation and physician instruction were among the reasons why mother may stop breast- feeding. mother...

Preface —O. M. Galal, C. G. Neumann, and J. Hulett ................................................................................ S127 Introduction —E. Pollitt .............................................................................................................................. S131 Children’s healthful eating: From research to practice —A. Worsley .......................................