Browsing by Author "Neshuku, Hanna"

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    Description of an educational programme developed to support registered nurses during clinical supervision of student nurses in medical and surgical wards in a training health facility: Namibia
    (2016) Neshuku, Hanna; Amukugo, Hans J.
    This paper describes an educational programme interventions developed to support registered nurses during the clinical supervision of student nurses in the medical and surgical wards of a training hospital in the Oshana region, Namibia. The programme developed contained the purpose and goals of the programme, programme objectives, programme structure, processes and approaches. The programme catered for the following themes: Managerial challenges, educational challenges and non-conducive environment as was experienced by registered nurses and student nurses in order to support them during clinical supervision. It includes the activities to address managerial challenges as identified to be affecting the clinical supervision of student nurses; this is to address educational challenges identified during clinical supervision of student nurses. Furthermore, the programme contains activities focused on providing registered nurses with knowledge and skills on clinical supervision, in order to increase their understanding and competence about the clinical supervision of student nurses. Another activity included interventions for enhancing positive interpersonal relationships and good communication skills to improve effective interactions between registered nurses and student nurses. This study made it possible for the development of an educational programme that enable the registered nurses to receive the much needed information pertaining to the clinical supervision of student nurses, and served as a guide and support tool when carrying out clinical supervision of student nurses. In conclusion the study was justified as an original contribution to the existing body of knowledge in general health nursing science.
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    An educational programme to support registered nurses during clinical supervision of student nurses in medical and surgical wards at a training health facility in the Oshana region, Namibia
    (University of Namibia, 2015) Neshuku, Hanna
    The provision of appropriate clinical supervision to nursing students is acknowledged to be problematic for a variety of reasons; i.e. inadequate staffing levels, heavy workloads, poor communication, and a shortage of materials. Furthermore, the need to initiate and assess a more suitable supervision programme to support supervisors is imperative. In this study, the researcher explored and described the views of registered nurses and nursing students about their experiences of clinical supervision of nursing students in medical and surgical wards with the purpose of developing, implementing, and evaluating an educational programme to support clinical supervision of nursing students in the medical and surgical wards at a training health facility in the Oshana region, Namibia. The study had been designed to be qualitative, explorative, descriptive, and contextual in nature and was conducted in four phases. Phase 1 comprised a situational analysis and was carried out to explore and describe the lived experiences of registered nurses and nursing students about the clinical supervision of nursing students in medical and surgical wards. Data was collected through in-depth individual interviews. Data was analysed according to Tech’s method of qualitative data analysis. The findings revealed the managerial and educational challenges that registered nurses and nursing students encountered; hence the need for registered nurses to support the facilitation of effective clinical supervision for nursing students Phase 2 dealt with the conceptualisation of a framework to guide the development of an educational programme to support registered nurses during the clinical supervision of nursing students. Phase 3 focused on the development of an educational programme to support registered nurses during clinical supervision of nursing students. The development of the programme had been guided by the findings of the situation analysis of this study, as well as by the survey list as suggested by Dickoff and Wiedenbach (1968). Phase 4 comprised the implementation and evaluation of an educational programme that had been developed to support registered nurses during clinical supervision. A two-day training workshop was facilitated at a training institution (UNAM Oshakati Campus) to support registered nurses who were supervising nursing students in medical and surgical wards at health facilities of the Oshana region during their course of study. The workshop was attended by registered nurses (registered nurses at a training health facility (UNAM Oshakati Campus) and a training hospital (Oshakati Intermediate Hospital) in the Oshana region). The evaluation of the programme was conducted immediately after the implementation of sessions with the aim of assessing the feasibility of the programme implementation. The programme outcome evaluation was conducted three months after the implementation of the programme. The programme implementation was recommended as useful and supportive by the participants while the programme outcome evaluation revealed that as a result of the programme intervention there was a marked positive change in clinical supervision of nursing students.
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    Experiences of registered and student nurses regarding the clinical supervision in medical and surgical wards: Develop an educational programme to support registered nurses
    (2015) Neshuku, Hanna; Amukugo, Hans J.
    The purpose of the study was to explore and describe the lived experiences of registered nurses and student nurses regarding the clinical supervision of student nurses in medical and surgical wards. The findings will be a basis to develop an educational programme to support registered nurses during clinical supervision in the same context. The study was a qualitative, explorative, descriptive and contextual in nature. This paper describes Phase 1, of the study aimed to explore and describe the experiences of registered nurses and student nurses regarding clinical supervision of student nurses. Data was collected through in-depth individual face to face interviews thereafter data were analysed based on the Tesch’s method of qualitative data analysis. The numbers of interviews conducted were 35 in total, made up of 27 interviews with student nurses and 8 interviews with registered nurses. The numbers were determined based on the subject who availed themselves for the study as well as data saturation. Study revealed managerial, educational as well as non-conducive environment challenges experiences by registered nurses and student nurses during clinical supervision of student nurses. It was concluded that educational programme should be developed in order to support registered to manage those challenges. The development of the programme is outlined in article part 2.
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    Guidelines to operationalize a model to facilitate male involvement in the reproductive health context by the registered nurses
    (2016) Amukugo, Hans J.; Neshuku, Hanna; Nangombe, Julia P.
    The purpose of this article is to describe the guidelines for operationalising a model to facilitate male partner involvement in RH. Guidelines were developed for the implementation of the model to facilitate male partner involvement in RH through the management of a partnership environment. These guidelines may be implemented in those health facilities that provide RH services, namely, clinics, health centres and hospitals. The nurses, in collaboration with significant stakeholders from the community, representatives from the line ministries and NGOs, will be able to facilitate male partner involvement in RH. These guidelines and strategies were derived from the conceptual framework which was generated by means of deductive reasoning and analysis. The guidelines and strategies at each level are aimed at facilitating male partner involvement in RH through the management of the partnership environment by enabling male partners to become actively involved and participate and to eliminate those factors that impede the full participation of male partners in the RH context. The chapter will focus on these guidelines which are expressed in terms of the aims and strategies of each of the four phases in facilitating male partner involvement in RH.
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