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...
Download PDF ↓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...
Download PDF ↓Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) continues to be a major public health nutrition concern in Zambia affecting primarily infants and young children below the age of five years and women of child bearing age. It is estimated at 53 per cent and 13 per cent among the under-five children and women of...
Download PDF ↓Clinical teaching is an active process that occurs in a variety of socio-cultural contexts and is one of the most important components in the training of nursing students. Registered Nurses play an important role in teaching and learning of student nurses. In Malawi, one of the roles of...
Download PDF ↓The use of Bloom’s hierarchy of cognitive levels of educational objectives as a tool for classroom assessments is rapidly increasing; therefore Nurse Educators’ knowledge of the tool is vital (De Young, 2009; Kim, et al., 2012; Cook, 2013; Agbedia and Ogbe, 2014). The prime objective of this...
Download PDF ↓Fifty six (56) out of sixty 2012/2013 final year students (93% response rate) participated in a study that sought to determine how Undergraduate Medical Students of the University Of Zambia (UNZA) acquired competency in clinical practical procedures, their levels of knowledge on selected set of...
Download PDF ↓Background: In most neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), including the NICU at University Teaching Hospital (UTH), Lusaka, initiation of enteral feeds in very low birth weight (VLBW) neonates, is predominantly delayed for forty-eight to seventy-two hours, whilst they are commenced on...
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