- Title
- Competencies of Qualified Primary Health Care professional nurses in Assessing, Diagnosing and Managing clients in health facilities in Buffalo City Metro”
- Creator
- Falati, Patience Yoliswa
- Subject
- Primary health care
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters/Doctoral
- Type
- MPH
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/16716
- Identifier
- vital:40766
- Description
- The study investigated the competencies of qualified PHC professional nurses in assessing, diagnosing and managing clients in the facilities. Aim: The study aimed to explain the competences of qualified PHC professional nurses in assessing, diagnosing and managing clients in the facilities. The research study followed a descriptive and qualitative design. Data was collected from qualified PHC professional nurses in 79 clinics (both urban and rural), 4CHC’s and 4 hospital casualties. A structured questionnaire with closed ended questions was used. Data analysis was done by means of descriptive statistics. The study showed that the overall percentage of 90% denotes that these PHC professional nurses are competent in all the aspects of competences. Assessing competences of qualified PHC professional nurses in assessing, diagnosing and managing clients in the facilities is of vital importance for quality health care/ improving service delivery and client satisfaction. Recommendation were made to influence the implementation of policies and guidelines for quality service delivery
- Format
- 73 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty OF Health Science
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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