Browsing by Author "Bowerbank, Pat"

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    The impact of physical movement disability amongst homeless adults in the Wynberg Haven Night Shelter
    (2001) Mji, Gubela; Bowerbank, Pat
    The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of physical movement disability amongst adult homeless persons in the Wynberg Haven Night Shelter and secondly to make recommendations with regard to their needs that have been identified by the study. A cross sectional exploratory descriptive study was done using both qualitative and quantitive methods of data collection elucidating triangulation to validate data.
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    Role competencies of first-line nurse managers in community health centres : a delphi study
    (2000) Greathead, Erica; Bowerbank, Pat; Hill, Renee
    This study was conducted to determine the role competencies required of first-line nurse managers of Community Health Centres (CHC) in South Africa with the implementation of the district health system and the corresponding delegation of authority and responsibility to lower levels of management. A Delphi technique was utilised, which involved a panel of 24 senior nurse managers.
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    The strategic development of a health care organisation : a longitudinal study of the South African physiotherapy profession, 1971 to 2000
    (2003) Bowerbank, Pat; Horwitz, Frank
    This research focuses specifically on the South African physiotherapy profession, that societal institution which is primarily concerned with health, illness and the physical elements of movement In the human body. Together with South African society as a whole this Institution has experienced monumental changes over the last 30 years. The objective of this research is to describe and critically evaluate the nature, direction and depth of those changes for the South African physiotherapy profession. To this end the research attempts to Identify some of the broad political and societal trends in the macroenvironment, and to contextualise these within the healthcare environment and the physiotherapy profession. The main argument is that social circumstances determine not only the health of the population, but also the health care services and how health care professionals function In society (Benatar, 1997). Health care services and how health care professional's function in society are socially constructed phenomena and therefore there are marked differences in the way health care is delivered from country to country and one political system to another. Over the past decade, management research has increasingly paid attention to the manner in which organisations work to Influence and shape their environments (Lawrence, 1999). A central Issue has become the manner in which organisational environments are constituted, reproduced and transformed through organisational action and relationships.