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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In this study, six indigenous Zambian food plants have been analysed for their nutrient content. These include two leafy wild vegetables, two wild fruits and two wild root tubers. The leafy vegetables were also dried and stored under traditional storage conditions and later analysed for their...

Zambia has one of the highest prevalence levels of malnutrition among children 6 – 59 months of age. The UNICEF 1990, reports that one of the key reasons for high under-five malnutrition in Zambia is the low socio-economic status of women, among the many factors. Currently the 2007 Zambia...

The quality of nursing documentation is an important issue for nurses both nationally and internationally. Nursing documentation should, but often does not show the rational and critical thinking behind clinical decisions and interventions, while providing written evidence of the progress of the...

Breast milk is superior and it is the biological norm for nourishing infants. Both early and more recent studies confirm that, exclusive breast fed infants are less likely to suffer from diarrhoea, malnutrition and acute respiratory infection. Early weaning is highly associated with morbidity and...