scholarly journals The support needs of Australian primary health care nurses during the COVID‐19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 1553-1560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Halcomb ◽  
Anna Williams ◽  
Christine Ashley ◽  
Susan McInnes ◽  
Catherine Stephen ◽  
...  
2018 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 507-522
Author(s):  
Gopolang L. Sekgobela ◽  
Doriccah M. Peu ◽  
Anna E. van der Wath

Community health care should facilitate effective adaptation to widowhood. In South Africa, the primary health-care nurses, who are the first-line health-care services, seem to miss opportunities for identifying and effectively managing widows experiencing health risks. This study explored the health-support needs of widows. We purposively selected 12 participants, who were widows between 25 and 65 years old residing in an urban area of South Africa. Data were gathered during unstructured individual phenomenological interviews and analyzed using a descriptive phenomenological method. Widowhood is an embodied and intense emotional experience with a cognitive impact. Related to these experiences are widows’ health-support needs. Widows have a need to be listened to and to be understood and cared for; attitudes and skills which require time and availability from primary health-care nurses. Widows expressed a need to engage in support groups, receive home visits, and receive health education from primary health-care nurses.


2014 ◽  
Vol 106 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Daly ◽  
Timothy Kenealy ◽  
Bruce Arroll ◽  
Nicolette Sheridan ◽  
Robert Scragg

Author(s):  
Elizabeth Halcomb ◽  
Christine Ashley ◽  
Sharon James ◽  
Elizabeth Smyth

Curationis ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Bornman ◽  
E. Alant ◽  
L.L. Lloyd

This article focuses on the importance of primary health care nurses’ involvement in the identification of children with severe disabilities, early and appropriate intervention that includes referral, as well as the provision of support to the children’s caregivers. The use of multiskilling as a strategy to train nurses to fulfil this role is described. The traditional roles of community nurses are explored within the disability paradigm, with specific reference to multi-skilling. Finally, research results following the implementation of the Beginning Communication Intervention Protocol (BCIP), which uses multiskilling as a training strategy, are described. Recommendations for further research are then provided.


1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 294-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bola Adamolekun ◽  
Jens Mielke ◽  
Douglas Ball ◽  
Tendai Mundanda

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 561-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.N. Ngunyulu ◽  
M.D. Peu ◽  
F.M. Mulaudzi ◽  
M.L.S. Mataboge ◽  
S.S. Phiri

Curationis ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
VO Netshandama ◽  
L Nemathaga ◽  
SN Shai-Mahoko

The purpose of the study was to explore the experiences of primary health care nurses working in the clinics and health centres involved in the provision of free health care services. The research design followed was exploratory, descriptive and qualitative. The population of the study included all primary health care nurses working at the clinics and health centres in the Vhembe (northern) region of the Limpopo Province. The sampling method used was purposive for the samples of both the clinics and the nurses. The inclusion criteria for the nurses included experience of two or more years in providing primary health care. The inclusion criteria for the selection of clinics included being a busy clinic (a minimum of 2000 patients per month) with a staff establishment of four or more primary health care nurses. In conducting this research, ethical principles were taken into account. Data was collected from 23 participants in the Northern Region. The research question read as follows: What are your experiences regarding the provision of free health care services? An open coding method consisting of eight steps provided by Tesch's (1990:140-145) eight-step method of analysing data was used. The research findings revealed that the primary health care nurses working in the clinics experience feelings of failure to provide adequate primary health care services due to the increased workload, misuse of the service, and fear associated with lack of security in the clinics and health centres. The conclusions drawn from this research are that on the one hand a poor mechanism exists for the monitoring of the implementation of free health services, and on another hand, there has been misuse of the facilities by the community. The concept “free health care service” has been misinterpreted.


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