Author:Coetzee, MinetteDate:2005Four years ago a Nursing Standards Generating Body (SGB) was established to gather wide input and formulate national educational standards for nursing. Possibly for the first time in South Africa this process offered a platform to consider ...Read more
Author:Barbard, Penelope JaneDate:2009The mother-child relationship is a key determinant of child health. Current evidence acknowledges that impaired mother-child interaction affects social, emotional, cognitive and behavioural development in infants. Disrupted interaction within ...Read more
Author:Leonard, Angela; Verster, Anchen; Coetzee, MinetteDate:Nov 2014*Background: Multiple renovations and changing flow in a tertiary children’s hospital in Cape
Town resulted in numerous signs being posted in the corridors and units, making wayfinding
extremely complex. A request from nursing management ...Read morecb
Author:Rotich, Everlyne ChepkemoiDate: 2020Background: The concept woman-centred care is gaining currency in maternity care and is increasingly being used to guide provision of quality care. The midwifery philosophy supports woman-centred care and is associated with positive pregnancy ...Read more
Author:North, Natasha; Leonard, Angela; Bonaconsa, Candice; Duma, Thobeka; Coetzee, MinetteDate:19 Apr 2020Background
The presence of family members and their active involvement in caring for hospitalised children is an established practice in many African paediatric settings, with family members often regarded as a resource. This aspect of African ...Read more
Author:Ssenyonga, Lydia V NDate:2014The current understanding is that infants below six months old do not show separation anxiety (Bretherton, 1985). The objective of the study was to measure the evidence of stress using heart rate variability and impedance cardiograph as ...Read more
Author:Coetzee, MinetteDate:2000In South Africa, paediatric nursing practice has traditionally been seen as a speciality. Yet in 1998, while a staggering 45% of the population were younger than 18 years, still only 2.4 % of all registered nurses held a Paediatric qualification1 ...Read more
Author:Coetzee, MinetteDate:Oct 2014*Background: South African’s infant and child mortality rates remain high and at the current
rate of decline will not meet the Millennium Development Goals of a two thirds decrease by
2015. At the latest available count, there were fewer ...Read morecb
Author:Coetzee, MinetteDate:2020The Regul8 framework represents an approach to providing fundamental children’s nursing care developed by Associate Professor Minette Coetzee at the Child Nursing Practice Development Initiative (CNPDI) in the Department of Paediatrics and ...Read morecbn
Author:North, Natasha; Shung-King, Maylene; Coetzee, MinetteDate:07 May 2019Background
This study sought to identify, as far as possible, the extent of the specialist children’s nursing workforce in five selected African countries. Strengthening children’s nursing training has been recommended as a ...Read more
Author:North, NatashaDate:2018Background
This study attempted to identify as far as possible the extent of the children’s nursing workforce in five selected countries in the sub-Saharan African region. Strengthening children’s nursing training has been recommended as a ...Read more