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'Breastfeeding is best for baby' is the view supported by many health organisations including Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). This literature review of both quantitative and qualitative studies was conducted to determine who supports women to breastfeed successfully in the current ...

The personal and financial consequences of avoidable infection are enormous in personal and global terms (DH 2003, Stone, Larson & Kawar 2002). Patients expect to be treated and cared for in clean conditions, and not be exposed to the risks of acquiring an infection by poor practice on the part ...

Everyday use of a simple cotton bud should remind us of our not so distant past and of the appalling trade in people. Harvesting this precious commodity required forced labour eventually leading to a key turning point in the history of surgery, as civil war raged in America during the ...

Prion diseases present unique challenges to healthcare facilities, both in the care and treatment of patients. A significant cause for concern is in the routine reprocessing of medical devices used on patients and how disease transmission can be prevented on the reuse of devices. Investigations have shown that prion disease ...

In February 2007 AfPP asked its members for their feedback on decontamination services. For example, decontamination services to perioperative areas and issues experienced on a daily basis, particularly service issues from those outsourced services. AfPP asked its members to share their experiences, concerns and issues--both positive and negative.

Surgical instruments, whether single use or reusable, are defined by the University of Newcastle's Online Medical Dictionary as 'Hand held tools or implements used by health professionals for the performance of surgical tasks' (CancerWEB 1998). This definition, in its broadest terms, recognises that the inter-professional team (health professionals) are involved ...

Time experience is a key concept in Rogers' conceptual model and has been uniquely interpreted by her as a manifestation of human field patterning. In this paper, issues with measuring time experience are addressed, especially with reference to the Time Metaphor Test, the instrument used most often in Rogerian investigations. ...

Using qualitative research methods, a four stage model was developed to describe and explain the process of extraordinary healing for three individuals. While current research in psychoneuroimmunology was helpful in understanding the physical recovery, it could not explain the entire healing process. The Rogerian perspective, particularly power as knowing participation ...

Nursing science has entered into a phase of transition and revolution. Never before has there been such a flux of creative ideas to challenge nurse scholars' scientific visions and to create a more diverse horizon in which to integrate those phenomena. There exists a need for continued exploration into more ...

Nursing is currently challenged with numerous competing theoretical frameworks. With these diverse conceptual systems grounded within disparate paradigms, nursing scientists must discern which of the developing paradigms hold the greatest validity and utility for nursing. This discussion addresses Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings in terms of Kuhn's requirement for ...

The liberation of oppressed people is a global struggle as liberation movements echo one another in proclaiming rights of equality, freedom and liberty inherent to all human beings. The marginalized constituents respond to oppression by donning the armor of struggle to wrest free from the chains of oppression and racism ...

Riddles are important logical tools in the traditional Shona system of education. While Shona riddles have important functions like socialisation and recreation, this paper is focused on the functions of riddles in sharpening one's reasoning skills and quickness of wit, and attempts to show how riddles foster quick mental flexibility ...

The courageous effort of enslaved Africans to acquire English literacy is an often-ignored story that deserves frequent telling. It is also a political saga that recounts White America's legalization of the enslavement, dehumanization, and cultural domination of African Americans. In the southern United States, repressive laws sought to control every ...

This paper provides an overview of the journey of the African intellectual within a globalised world community, juxtaposing neo-colonialism in Africa and its inability to achieve self-sustaining development, except for reluctant agreements on the need for economic unity. Next, the presentation correspondingly detail how intellectuals have become part of the ...

This paper is part of the author's research into the possibility of carving a distinct critical canon for the reading of African/Black literature. It has been observed that postcolonial theory is fraught with many assumptionist errors, one of which is to read all postcolonial discourses as if they are products ...