An (auto)-biographical account of nursing transformation: 1970-2018
- Authors: Ricks, Esmeralda Jennifer
- Subjects: Nursing -- Study and teaching , Nursing -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , An (auto)-biographical account of nursing transformation: 1970-2018 , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21055 , vital:29434
- Description: This lecture provides a description of how nursing education and practice, research and technology has transformed over the past 48 years. The information provided in this lecture is based on personal experience and own research, and research of various other authors. The first part of the lecture provides an overview of the era in which I trained and is used as a benchmark to compare current day practices. The changes in nursing education and practice with regard to the Nursing Act and regulations over the past 48 years are highlighted, depicting the number of times that the different nursing acts and regulations were amended with regard to all basic nursing qualification programmes. This lecture also includes a brief discussion of the new nursing education programme that will be implemented soon, as well as its opportunities and challenges. A detailed description is provided with regard to how nursing research has evolved over the past 48 years because of the dedication and vision that nurse leaders have for the profession. A national nursing strategy has been developed to enhance collaborative, rigorous scientific enquiry that builds a significant body of knowledge in order to improve the health of the people of South Africa. It is envisaged that the research strategy will contribute significantly to directing future nursing research development in South Africa. It is evident in this lecture that the use of technology in nursing has truly evolved and can be seen as a major driver of changes in the nursing profession. There are huge shifts in how patient records are maintained, how medications are tracked and ordered, how care is passed from one provider to another, how blood and X-ray results are retrieved and how information is being accessed at the point of care in nursing. In today’s healthcare system technology is the foundation of the future. Today’s nurses must not only know how to care for patients, but how to use technology safely and appropriately in their day-to-day work. It is evident that nursing has transformed in many ways since 1970 and that nurses have always been the drivers of nursing transformation.
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- Authors: Ricks, Esmeralda Jennifer
- Subjects: Nursing -- Study and teaching , Nursing -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , An (auto)-biographical account of nursing transformation: 1970-2018 , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21055 , vital:29434
- Description: This lecture provides a description of how nursing education and practice, research and technology has transformed over the past 48 years. The information provided in this lecture is based on personal experience and own research, and research of various other authors. The first part of the lecture provides an overview of the era in which I trained and is used as a benchmark to compare current day practices. The changes in nursing education and practice with regard to the Nursing Act and regulations over the past 48 years are highlighted, depicting the number of times that the different nursing acts and regulations were amended with regard to all basic nursing qualification programmes. This lecture also includes a brief discussion of the new nursing education programme that will be implemented soon, as well as its opportunities and challenges. A detailed description is provided with regard to how nursing research has evolved over the past 48 years because of the dedication and vision that nurse leaders have for the profession. A national nursing strategy has been developed to enhance collaborative, rigorous scientific enquiry that builds a significant body of knowledge in order to improve the health of the people of South Africa. It is envisaged that the research strategy will contribute significantly to directing future nursing research development in South Africa. It is evident in this lecture that the use of technology in nursing has truly evolved and can be seen as a major driver of changes in the nursing profession. There are huge shifts in how patient records are maintained, how medications are tracked and ordered, how care is passed from one provider to another, how blood and X-ray results are retrieved and how information is being accessed at the point of care in nursing. In today’s healthcare system technology is the foundation of the future. Today’s nurses must not only know how to care for patients, but how to use technology safely and appropriately in their day-to-day work. It is evident that nursing has transformed in many ways since 1970 and that nurses have always been the drivers of nursing transformation.
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Confinement and labouring women: a persistent struggle against nature
- Authors: James, Sindiwe
- Subjects: Childbirth , Labor (Obstetrics) , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/40028 , vital:35730
- Description: Nature in its essence is frequently viewed as a thing of beauty and the ultimate truth of perfection. Unfortunately, this view of nature is often undermined when it comes to the concept of women in confinement and labour. Women, naturally by virtue of being females, have the capacity to become pregnant and thus to bear children. However, in many instances this capacity becomes limited, or misunderstood. In such cases, humans start viewing or considering confinement and labour in terms of ‘being wrong and incorrect’. They only see issues around age and marital status while losing sight of the fact that nature has ordained that all women have a uterus, which has a potential to conceive, but under ‘suitable’ conditions. Yes, the uterus does not know about age and health restrictions, but will expel its contents when the time comes, and suitability around that expulsion unfortunately becomes the concern of humans (midwives or family members). Very often young girls who are in confinement are received and treated differently by these two categories of humans because they are deemed not to be at the correct age for falling pregnant and to be in labour, or they are regarded as having been ‘naughty’.
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- Authors: James, Sindiwe
- Subjects: Childbirth , Labor (Obstetrics) , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/40028 , vital:35730
- Description: Nature in its essence is frequently viewed as a thing of beauty and the ultimate truth of perfection. Unfortunately, this view of nature is often undermined when it comes to the concept of women in confinement and labour. Women, naturally by virtue of being females, have the capacity to become pregnant and thus to bear children. However, in many instances this capacity becomes limited, or misunderstood. In such cases, humans start viewing or considering confinement and labour in terms of ‘being wrong and incorrect’. They only see issues around age and marital status while losing sight of the fact that nature has ordained that all women have a uterus, which has a potential to conceive, but under ‘suitable’ conditions. Yes, the uterus does not know about age and health restrictions, but will expel its contents when the time comes, and suitability around that expulsion unfortunately becomes the concern of humans (midwives or family members). Very often young girls who are in confinement are received and treated differently by these two categories of humans because they are deemed not to be at the correct age for falling pregnant and to be in labour, or they are regarded as having been ‘naughty’.
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Drugs: cures or curse?
- McCarthy, T J (Terence John)
- Authors: McCarthy, T J (Terence John)
- Subjects: Drugs , Pharmacy , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21887 , vital:29798
- Description: With Pharmacy established in our midst at UPE it seems fitting to speak about drugs, since the name pharmacy is derived from pharmakon, the Greek word for drug. The derivation of apteker from the English word apothecary and the German Apotheker is also relevant. Interestingly the Greek root for apothecary means storekeeper, so perhaps things have not changed much in the last few centuries. However, the use of drugs precedes the Greeks, English or Germans by many centuries, and both the Chinese (over 2000 years BC) and the Babylonians (over 4000 years BC) had drug lists or pharmacopoeias. In fact the Babylonians also had a strict medical code and I recall reading that "if the surgeons's knife should slip, the surgeon's hand will be cut off" which seems far better than the modern idea of trying to sue the surgeon after the event, but must have seriously hampered the recruitment of surgeons in those days.
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- Authors: McCarthy, T J (Terence John)
- Subjects: Drugs , Pharmacy , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21887 , vital:29798
- Description: With Pharmacy established in our midst at UPE it seems fitting to speak about drugs, since the name pharmacy is derived from pharmakon, the Greek word for drug. The derivation of apteker from the English word apothecary and the German Apotheker is also relevant. Interestingly the Greek root for apothecary means storekeeper, so perhaps things have not changed much in the last few centuries. However, the use of drugs precedes the Greeks, English or Germans by many centuries, and both the Chinese (over 2000 years BC) and the Babylonians (over 4000 years BC) had drug lists or pharmacopoeias. In fact the Babylonians also had a strict medical code and I recall reading that "if the surgeons's knife should slip, the surgeon's hand will be cut off" which seems far better than the modern idea of trying to sue the surgeon after the event, but must have seriously hampered the recruitment of surgeons in those days.
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Physical activity and health: building health-promoting schools in Gqeberha and beyond
- Authors: Walter, Cheryl
- Subjects: Exercise for children -- Physiological aspects , Exercise for children -- Psychological aspects , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/56070 , vital:55194
- Description: For this address, I thought it would be appropriate to share information on the research into the physical activity, health and wellbeing of primary school children living in the Northern Areas and townships of Gqeberha – which formed part of the 10-year collaboration between the Department of Human Movement Science at Nelson Mandela University, the Department of Sport, Exercise and Health at the University of Basel and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, in Basel, Switzerland. Three large studies formed the core of the 10-year collaboration: the Disease, Activity and Schoolchildren’s Health (DASH) study, the KaziBantu Project and the KaziAfya study.
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- Authors: Walter, Cheryl
- Subjects: Exercise for children -- Physiological aspects , Exercise for children -- Psychological aspects , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/56070 , vital:55194
- Description: For this address, I thought it would be appropriate to share information on the research into the physical activity, health and wellbeing of primary school children living in the Northern Areas and townships of Gqeberha – which formed part of the 10-year collaboration between the Department of Human Movement Science at Nelson Mandela University, the Department of Sport, Exercise and Health at the University of Basel and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, in Basel, Switzerland. Three large studies formed the core of the 10-year collaboration: the Disease, Activity and Schoolchildren’s Health (DASH) study, the KaziBantu Project and the KaziAfya study.
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Research and professional work in Gender Based Violence: lessons learned and perceived risks
- Authors: Ngcobo-Sithole, Magnolia
- Subjects: Rural women -- Violence against -- South Africa , Women -- Violence against , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/32386 , vital:32078
- Description: South Africa has made some strides in recognizing women’s rights in this country. However, women in the rural areas have not benefitted from most of the developments. They are still exposed to cultural practices that are dehumanising. I explore how these practices are linked to gender based violence. There are also well-articulated policy frameworks and laws aimed at the protection of women. However, gender-based violence (GBV) remains very high in the country and can lead to death. GBV has been understood from a western perspective with limited attention to the traditional perspective. Perhaps the controversies in the legal and policy framework are a reflection of an application of a Western perspective on cultural African beliefs. In this lecture, I present these contrasting views in the legal framework. The lecture aims to advance an understanding of African customs linked to GBV. It is a timely lecture in view of the drive towards Afrocentric psychology. The available literature has focused extensively on cultural aspects related to mental illness and therapy with a limited focus on cultural aspects linked to GBV. Finally, interventions that take cognisance of the dynamic nature of cultural beliefs and practices are highlighted. In conclusion, it is indicated that we must choose to adhere to cultural practices that are not discriminating against women.
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- Authors: Ngcobo-Sithole, Magnolia
- Subjects: Rural women -- Violence against -- South Africa , Women -- Violence against , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/32386 , vital:32078
- Description: South Africa has made some strides in recognizing women’s rights in this country. However, women in the rural areas have not benefitted from most of the developments. They are still exposed to cultural practices that are dehumanising. I explore how these practices are linked to gender based violence. There are also well-articulated policy frameworks and laws aimed at the protection of women. However, gender-based violence (GBV) remains very high in the country and can lead to death. GBV has been understood from a western perspective with limited attention to the traditional perspective. Perhaps the controversies in the legal and policy framework are a reflection of an application of a Western perspective on cultural African beliefs. In this lecture, I present these contrasting views in the legal framework. The lecture aims to advance an understanding of African customs linked to GBV. It is a timely lecture in view of the drive towards Afrocentric psychology. The available literature has focused extensively on cultural aspects related to mental illness and therapy with a limited focus on cultural aspects linked to GBV. Finally, interventions that take cognisance of the dynamic nature of cultural beliefs and practices are highlighted. In conclusion, it is indicated that we must choose to adhere to cultural practices that are not discriminating against women.
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The four P's of Pharmacy: potions, products, profits and people
- Authors: Truter, Ilse
- Subjects: Pharmacy , Pharmacy -- Study and teaching , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21626 , vital:29721
- Description: A short overview of my academic journey by focusing on the three pillars of academia, followed by what I consider to be the four "P's" of Pharmacy, a question about a further "P", and in conclusion what I consider to be the way forward for Pharmacy.
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- Authors: Truter, Ilse
- Subjects: Pharmacy , Pharmacy -- Study and teaching , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21626 , vital:29721
- Description: A short overview of my academic journey by focusing on the three pillars of academia, followed by what I consider to be the four "P's" of Pharmacy, a question about a further "P", and in conclusion what I consider to be the way forward for Pharmacy.
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The Interplay between Universal and Unique Contexts in Shaping Child Developmental Assessment
- Authors: Stroud, Louise
- Subjects: Child development -- Testing , Developmental psychology , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21088 , vital:29437
- Description: In this lecture the revision of the Griffiths Scales of Child Development, or Griffiths III as it is now known, will be described. It is not a description or story that falls easily and smoothly into sequence. It is one that has been garnered from many sources and from many people. Some of it comes in the form of fragments from professional men and women who have looked upon developing children with a unique and unrelenting eye. It comes from men and women who carry the germ of knowledge, implanted somewhere deeply in their beings, a place where a curious, natural rhythm exists and a kind of magic. Additionally a suggested plan for the future or “what next” phase in the interplay between universal and unique contexts in shaping child developmental assessment specifically using the Griffiths III will be described and proposed.
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- Authors: Stroud, Louise
- Subjects: Child development -- Testing , Developmental psychology , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21088 , vital:29437
- Description: In this lecture the revision of the Griffiths Scales of Child Development, or Griffiths III as it is now known, will be described. It is not a description or story that falls easily and smoothly into sequence. It is one that has been garnered from many sources and from many people. Some of it comes in the form of fragments from professional men and women who have looked upon developing children with a unique and unrelenting eye. It comes from men and women who carry the germ of knowledge, implanted somewhere deeply in their beings, a place where a curious, natural rhythm exists and a kind of magic. Additionally a suggested plan for the future or “what next” phase in the interplay between universal and unique contexts in shaping child developmental assessment specifically using the Griffiths III will be described and proposed.
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