Browsing by Author "Nelumbu, Lucia N."
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Item An educational programme to facilitate reflective practice for registered nurses in training hospitals in Windhoek(2013) Nelumbu, Lucia N.Illness is an evitable part of life for the vast majority of people. The nurses’ reactions to people who are ill or who are in need of health care are influenced and shaped by their own personal qualities, such as sensitivity, understanding and honesty as well as the professional attributes, skills, competencies, attitudes and cognitive abilities necessary for effective practice. Problems or incidents occurring in clinical settings are often seen as indicators of poor nursing care and even indicators of a lack of reflective practice skills. The purpose of the study was to explore and describe how reflection is practised by registered nurses. The objectives of the study were to explore and describe how reflection is practiced and conceptualised by registered nurses in Namibia. A qualitative, explorative, phenomenological, descriptive and contextual approach was used. Data were collected from the population, including all registered nurses purposively selected from different disciplines in training hospitals, through in-depth interviews. The data were analysed according to themes based on the ideas of Tesch’s model, and revealed inadequate knowledge of reflective practice among registered nurses as they only expressed the execution of their daily activities without paying attention to how they reflect in daily practice Hence the reflective practice programme was developed and implemented to offer knowledge and skills to effectively address the clinical challenges which registered nurses may encounter in terms of reflection. The evaluation of the programme was conducted sixteen weeks (4 months) after the programme implementation, with the overall results showing that reflective practice would assist registered nurses to think critically and to engage in reflection upon professional practice activities that would lead to the improvement of their performances. The main recommendations made were among others, that nursing education in Namibia must make reflective practice a compulsory competency of registered nurses and all health care providers, and should be included in the curriculum of all student nurses.Item Nursing and radiography students' perceptions on their wellbeing at the School of Nursing, university of Namibia(2016) Small, Louis F.; Pretorius, Louise; Walters, A.; Kuugongelwa, S.; De Villiers, E.; Amakali, Kristofina; Anyolo, Epafras; Bampton, Elizabeth L.; Brinkman, C.; Nelumbu, Lucia N.This paper discusses a report of perception of wellbeing among nursing and radiography students at the School of Nursing of the University of Namibia. A mixed method of descriptive, analytical quantitative and qualitative study was conducted to gather data on self-report perception of wellbeing among the study and target population of 440 Nursing students (both undergraduate and postgraduate) and Radiography students registered for the 2013 academic year at the School of Nursing, University of Namibia, Windhoek campus. Data were collected from a convenient sample of 403 students with a response rate of 95% (n = 383), through a self- administered questionnaire that focused on the six subcomponents of wellbeing. Descriptive and analytical analysis were applied to describe participants’ perceived wellbeing and to determine possible associations between the perceptions of wellbeing as a dependent variable and the independent variables. The findings indicated a significant overall low level of perceived wellbeing among all students irrespective of the study programme and levels of studies.Item A survey to determine how experiential learning is applied during clinical teaching of student nurses in training institutions in Namibia(2000) Nelumbu, Lucia N.This study was undertaken to determine how the experiential learning cycle is applied during clinical sessions in the nursing training institutions in Namibia. The main objectives of this study were: to find out how learning experiences were selected by registered nurses and nurse educators for concrete exposure by the students and to evaluate how students were assisted for future actions