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Clinical learning is an integral part of nursing training and forms a foundation of competence development in nursing practice. In an attempt to produce competent and skilled registered nurses, more hours have been allocated for clinical learning practice than the theory in the new curriculum for...

Understanding of any factor that may affect the skills acquisition of nursing students in the clinical area is essential to ensure that maximum benefits are gained from this aspect of nursing education. Factors which influenced integration of theory into practice in clinical skills acquisition...

Nurses are key health professionals involved in the frontline care of patients, including the elderly. The World Health Organization predicted that the proportion of people aged over 60 years will increase from 11% to 22% between 2000 and 2050. Aligned with this increase in the ageing population...

The Zambian government introduced School Health and Nutrition Programme in order to address the issues of hunger and disease which interfered with learners’ academic performance. Despite involving the parents and teachers to work with government, the issue of diseases and hunger has continued in...

Background: Mentorship is a program aimed at preparing midwives to concretize their knowledge and skills in order to provide quality services at all levels of health care delivery system. Understanding the experiences of those that undergo mentorship is important to improve the program....

Background Diarrhea is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality, especially among under-five children. Globally, as many as 800,000 children die each year from severe dehydration resulting from diarrhea, with most deaths occurring in developing countries including sub-Saharan region....

Introduction: Ensuring patients are adequately hydrated is an essential part of nursing care but the performance assessment and nursing audit reports demonstrated a gap in the documentation of the post-operative patients fluid balance charts at Mansa General Hospital (MGH). The main objective of...

Preeclampsia is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality and pre-term delivery around the world. Though its exact cause is not yet known, it is found more commonly in developing countries. Deficiency of serum Zinc has been implicated in the pathophysiology of preeclampsia due to its...

The quality of nursing care offered to critically ill patients and their survival greatly depend on nurses’ critical care nursing competence. Critical care nursing competence is emerging to be useful in early identification of deteriorating clinical condition in critically ill patients. The...

Background: Globally, diarrhoeal diseases are the second leading cause of deaths in children under five years old, causing 6.9% of deaths. In Zambia, diarrhoeal disease accounts for 16% of mortality among the under fives. The objective of the study was to investigate the correlates of diarrhoea...