Pub Date : 2019-02-28DOI: 10.21522/TIJNR.2015.05.01.ART001
S. Uba
Professional development is desirous for any nursing official who is engaged in patient’s care and teaching or mentoring of student nurses. This research paper evaluated the attitude of nurses toward professional development trainings, assessed the reasons for their attitude in the professional development trainings and tried to proffer suggestions that will improve on the professional development of the nurses. It was a prospective, randomized, questionnaire-based cross-sectional descriptive survey of the attitude of nurses towards professional development among nurses working at the Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria. One hundred and thirty-one nurses were studied, 99 (76%) were females and 22 (24%) were males (F: M=4.5:1). Results showed that the majority of the nurses had adequate knowledge about the nursing profession and professional development, and were would like to embrace further professional training given the opportunity, necessary motivation, support and encouragement. Many factors militated against the nurses’ interest in the professional development trainings, including family commitment, distances, time and lack of institutional financial support. It is recommended that professional development trainings should be encouraged. Nurses may be motivated and encouraged to participate in the professional development trainings in order to achieve the individual and organizational goal of quality health care delivery to patients.
{"title":"Attitude of Nurses towards Professional Development for Improved Service Delivery at the Jos University Teaching Hospital","authors":"S. Uba","doi":"10.21522/TIJNR.2015.05.01.ART001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21522/TIJNR.2015.05.01.ART001","url":null,"abstract":"Professional development is desirous for any nursing official who is engaged in patient’s care and teaching or mentoring of student nurses. This research paper evaluated the attitude of nurses toward professional development trainings, assessed the reasons for their attitude in the professional development trainings and tried to proffer suggestions that will improve on the professional development of the nurses. It was a prospective, randomized, questionnaire-based cross-sectional descriptive survey of the attitude of nurses towards professional development among nurses working at the Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria. One hundred and thirty-one nurses were studied, 99 (76%) were females and 22 (24%) were males (F: M=4.5:1). Results showed that the majority of the nurses had adequate knowledge about the nursing profession and professional development, and were would like to embrace further professional training given the opportunity, necessary motivation, support and encouragement. Many factors militated against the nurses’ interest in the professional development trainings, including family commitment, distances, time and lack of institutional financial support. It is recommended that professional development trainings should be encouraged. Nurses may be motivated and encouraged to participate in the professional development trainings in order to achieve the individual and organizational goal of quality health care delivery to patients.","PeriodicalId":333762,"journal":{"name":"TEXILA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134242650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-02-28DOI: 10.21522/TIJNR.2015.05.01.ART004
M. Mustafa
This study was conducted to assess the patients’ knowledge about safety measures related to bloodborne diseases in haemodialysis units. There is a lack of knowledge of patients’ knowledge about safety measures related to blood-borne diseases in haemodialysis units. The lack of knowledge of patients in haemodialysis centres was the leading cause of blood-borne disease outbreaks. The general objective is to assess the patients’ awareness about safety measures related to blood-borne diseases in haemodialysis units. The study design is a descriptive study, which is hospital based-cross sectional study. The total number of the study subjects in this study revealed that the knowledge of patients’ knowledge in the haemodialysis centres regarding safety measures related to blood-borne diseases in haemodialysis units show a significant lack of knowledge about safety measures related to blood-borne diseases in haemodialysis units, P-value <0.0001. We recommend increasing study cases, More researches, Health education for patients about the route of transmission of blood-borne diseases, Use the posters which carry pictures learn the patients and new staff the good behaviours to avoid infection, Employ only qualified staff, Supervise the newly staff, Make regular training for staff, Provide well-equipped laboratories for virology screening. There are no limitations of this study starting in 100 subjects and ended by 100 subjects.
{"title":"Assess the Patients’ Knowledge about Safety Measures Related to Blood Borne Diseases in Haemodialysis Units, in Khartoum State, Sudan","authors":"M. Mustafa","doi":"10.21522/TIJNR.2015.05.01.ART004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21522/TIJNR.2015.05.01.ART004","url":null,"abstract":"This study was conducted to assess the patients’ knowledge about safety measures related to bloodborne diseases in haemodialysis units. There is a lack of knowledge of patients’ knowledge about safety measures related to blood-borne diseases in haemodialysis units. The lack of knowledge of patients in haemodialysis centres was the leading cause of blood-borne disease outbreaks. The general objective is to assess the patients’ awareness about safety measures related to blood-borne diseases in haemodialysis units. The study design is a descriptive study, which is hospital based-cross sectional study. The total number of the study subjects in this study revealed that the knowledge of patients’ knowledge in the haemodialysis centres regarding safety measures related to blood-borne diseases in haemodialysis units show a significant lack of knowledge about safety measures related to blood-borne diseases in haemodialysis units, P-value <0.0001. We recommend increasing study cases, More researches, Health education for patients about the route of transmission of blood-borne diseases, Use the posters which carry pictures learn the patients and new staff the good behaviours to avoid infection, Employ only qualified staff, Supervise the newly staff, Make regular training for staff, Provide well-equipped laboratories for virology screening. There are no limitations of this study starting in 100 subjects and ended by 100 subjects.","PeriodicalId":333762,"journal":{"name":"TEXILA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116595503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-08-31DOI: 10.21522/tijnr.2015.04.02.art004
Nebiyu Lera Alaro
The prevalence of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) and Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) of under-five children, in South Sudan is considerably high and is being aggravated by various internal conflicts and food insecurity ravaging the country. The situation has attracted the attention of various international organizations like World Food Programme (WFP), United Nations Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF), and other international Non-governmental Organizations (INGOs), for possible interventions. However, the success of the nutrition therapy programme in reducing the prevalence of SAM and MAM among under-five children, as implemented by these humanitarian organizations is hinged on many factors. A retrospective cohort study was conducted by collecting reported data from District Health Information Software (DHIS) of SAM and MAM prevalence of under-five children across three years; 2015, 2006 and 2007 for three counties, and was analysed using SPSS. Findings revealed significant differences in SAM and MAM within counties and among counties across the three years. It was further revealed that there was rising prevalence of SAM and MAM (poor impact) among the counties as the nutrition therapy programme progressed across the three years in the three counties. It was suggested, among others, that training and re-training of health and nutrition workers, timely availability of food supplements, ensuring food security, unwavering adherence to the principle of neutrality and impartiality on the part of INGOs and government, and conduct of pre and postintervention surveys for feedbacks, may serve as the panacea towards the present unsatisfying state of the nutrition therapy programme in the war-torn Lakes State of South Sudan.
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Pub Date : 2018-08-31DOI: 10.21522/TIJNR.2015.04.02.ART002
Nebiyu Lera Alaro
Effective from May 2014, community-based traditional birth attendants (TBAs) in Yirol West County, South Sudan, were directed to start referring all women in labour to health facilities for childbirth instead of assisting them in the villages. This study aimed to understand the degree of integration of TBAs health system, to reveal the factors influencing the integration, and to explore the perceived solutions to the challenges faced by TBAs. A qualitative study utilising 11 focus group discussions with TBAs, 6 focus group discussions with women, and 18 key informant interviews with members of village health committees, staff of health facilities, and staff of the County Health Department was conducted. Data were analysed using qualitative content analysis. The study found that many TBAs were referring women to health facilities for delivery, but some were still attending to deliveries at home. Facilitators of the adoption of the new role by TBAs were: acceptance of the new TBAs’ role by the community, women and TBAs, perceptions about institutional childbirth and risks of home childbirth, personal commitment and motivation by some communication problems between TBAs and health care facilities, delays in seeking care by women, insecurity, lack of materials and supplies for TBAs, health system constraints, insufficient incentives for long distances to health facilities and transportation problems. This study has revealed encouraging developments in TBAs’ integration in the formal health system in Yirol West. However, there is need to address the challenges faced by TBAs in assuming their new role in order to sustain the integration. Keyword: TBAs Health system, TBAs In South Sudan, TBAs in Yirol, Focused antenatal care, Care of uncomplicated delivery, Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (HemOnc), Focused postnatal care.
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Pub Date : 2018-08-31DOI: 10.21522/tijnr.2015.04.02.art001
Dauda Rifkatu Samaila
There is global use of IUD among women. It is seen as the safest and reversible family planning method compared to other methods. It is a wise choice for women within the sexual active period of life that are yet to commence or complete the number of children so desired and to also prevent unwanted pregnancy and the consequences of abortion. For the married couples yet to complete number of children desired it serves as a form of child spacing method of choice with high level reliability. Despite its safety and reversibility, it uses in developing country like America is low, estimated at 2% in 2002 (Mosher, 2004). Based on 2004 United Nations data, Eastern and Western Europe represent 4-5% of global IUD use. The reason for this low practice may be associated with its possible side effects like menorrhagia. However, WHO estimates that approximately 160 million women worldwide use IUDs today. China has an estimated two-thirds of these users, or 96 million. Only a small percentage of current users are in Eastern or Western Europe or other industrialized countries (10%). The remaining 24% are in developing countries other than China, concentrated in Vietnam, Egypt, Indonesia, India, and Uzbekistan, and Turkey – those six countries alone contain half of all users in developing countries excluding China. All developing countries fall into the following clusters, which show widely different determinants of use rates. They also help to identify programmatic reasons for greater or lesser uptake, (WHO, 2007). In Nigeria according to Dinwoke V, Okafor C, Eke A, (2015) in a study conducted in an Eastern Nigerian Teaching Hospital “the IUD was the most popular, being accepted by 56.7% of all clients” of all family methods. This was attributed to some women believe that using modern methods would endanger their health and future fertility. This concede with a study carried out in Port Harcourt, south-south Nigeriaby Enyindah C, Ojule J, Bassey G, indicating IUCD users in the range of 47 to 66% of contraceptive acceptors in different family planning centers and it is used longer than other reversible contraceptive methods. Though it is the safest reversible family planning method studies have associated it with the leading cause of menorrhagia among family planning user as shown in this study compared to other complications in Eastern Nigeria Teaching Hospital in which “No complication 83% 275, Menorrhagia/ irregular bleeding 23%, Abnormal vaginal discharges 4.55% , Missing 0.61%, Othersnonspecific 3.64% and Failure 0% agreeing with the study in South-south Nigeria of Port Harcourt as follows Menorrhagia/ irregular bleeding 30.3%, Amenorrhea 14% , Hypomenorrhea 2.0%, Dysmenorrhea 20.6%, Missing 5.3%, Expulsion 2.7%, Coital discomfort 2.4% ,Coital bleeding 0.6%, Accidental pregnancy 0.3%, Vaginal discharge 20.8%, Lower abdominal pain18.7% and PID 1.5%. However, the investigator is so concern with the association of IUD and menorrhagia. Therefore, the study aim
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.21522/tijnr.2015.se.19.01.art012
P. Guha
A study “To assess the quality of life of thalassemic children and to seek its association with selected factors with a view to evaluate the effectiveness of health care package in terms of knowledge for the parents on care of thalassemic children in selected hospital of Delhi”. The objectives of the study were to (1) assess the quality of life of thalassemic children (2) identify the factors associated with quality of life of thalassemiageneral health, physical functioning, behavioral functioning, social and family functioning, emotional functioning, cognitive functioning (3) seek the relationship between selected demographic factors and quality of life of thalassemia –age ,sex, educational status of children, duration of illness of children, type of family, area, number of transfusions, number of affected siblings, Hb % level, parents occupation, parents income (4) develop health care package for parents on care of thalassemic children. (5) assess the effectiveness of health care package for parents on care of thalassemic children before and after giving pretest and post-test.
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