• Patients' perceptions regarding nursing care in the general surgical wards at Kenyata national hospital 

  Shawa, Elwin (University of Nairobi, 2012-09)

  Background: Nursing care is a major component of the health services because it is one of the determinants of quality health services. The anecdotal patients’ care evaluation and media reports have portrayed negative ...
• Nursing And Midwifery Students’ Lived Experiences Of Faculty Caring And Uncaring Behaviours On Their Learning: A Phenomenology Study 

  Chipeta, Mep; Msiska, Alice Konyani; Moyo, Gertrude Munthali; Phuma-Ngaiyaye, Ellemes; Zimba, Atupele Malema; Gombachika, Belinda; Mbakaya, Balwani Chingatichifwe (ESI, 2021)

  Background: A caring environment in nursing education is one of the most essential factors for empowering students, which is achieved through trust and open academic communication. Aim: To explore the experiences of ...
• Nursing and Midwifery Students’ Perspectives of Faculty Caring Behaviours: A Phenomenological Study 

  Chipeta, Mep; Gombachika, Belinda; Bvumbwe, Thokozani (Bentham Open, 2022)

  Aims: The study aimed at exploring faculty caring behaviours from the perspectives of university students enrolled in Nursing and Midwifery programme at one of the public universities in Malawi. Background: The concept ...
• COVID-19 Related Fears Among Mzuzu University’s Nursing Students During Clinical Practice 

  Mpasa, Ferestas; Baluwa, Masumbuko; Lungu, Florence; Chipeta, Mep Coretta; Munthali, Getrude; Mhango, Lucky; Chimbe, Ettah; Konyani, Alice (Dove press, 2021)

  Purpose: Clinical practice during pandemics is known to bring additional fears to nursing students. The purpose of this study was to explore fears of Mzuzu University’s nursing students nurses regarding resumption of ...
• Exploring Challenges Faced by Nurses on Provision of Hormonal Contraceptives to Women on Antiretroviral Therapy in Selected Healthcare Facilities in Lilongwe District, MalawI 

  Mkwinda, Esmie; Thombozi, Enalla; Botha, Janet; Chilinda, Idesi; Mandala, Edna; Chipeta, Mep (Dove press, 2022)

  Background: Malawi is a low-income country with a high maternal mortality rate, unmet need for family planning and high reports (41%) of unintended pregnancies. Women on Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) continued to experience ...
• Coping with Fears of Covid-19 Pandemic Among Nursing Students During Clinical Practice: Malawi’s Perspective 

  Baluwa, Masumbuko Albert; Konyani, Alice; Chipeta, Mep Coretta; Munthali, Getrude; Mhango, Lucky; Chimbe, Etta; Lungu, Florence; Mpasa, Ferestas (Dove press, 2021)

  Purpose: Fears of the Covid-19 pandemic have brought additional psychological pressure among nursing students. Nursing students at Mzuzu University in Malawi resumed clinical practice amidst the first wave of the ...
• Seroprevalence of anti‐SARS‐CoV‐2 antibodies in Africa: A systematic review and meta‐analysis 

  Chisale, Master R. O.; Ramazanu, Sheena; Mwale, Saul Eric; Kumwenda, Pizga; Chipeta, Mep; Kaminga, Atipatsa C.; Nkhata, Obed; Nyambalo, Billy; Chavura, Elton; Mbakaya, Balwani C. (Wiley, 2021)

  We estimated the seroprevalence of anti‐severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) antibodies in residents of African countries and explored its associated factors. We searched PubMed, EMBASE, ...
• Midwives’ emotional distress over maternal death: The case of Ashanti Region 

  Dartey, Anita Fafa; Phuma-Ngaiyaye, Ellemes; Phetlhu, Rene D. (Numid horizon, 2017)

  Emotional distress associated with the death of human beings cannot be underestimated. Much as it affects the immediate family members, midwives who witness death of pregnant patients are not spared the emotional distress. ...
• Fears associated with maternal death: Selected midwives’ lived experiences in the Ashanti Region of Ghana 

  Dartey, Anita Fafa; Phetlhu, D. R.; Phema-Ngaiyaye, Ellemes (University of the western cape, 2017)

  Like the fear associated with the demise of loved ones, maternal deaths at any health facility equally illicit fear among midwives. This jeopardises their ability to achieve the quality of work expected of them. There is ...
• Effects of Death as a Unique Experience among Midwives in the Ashanti Region of Ghana 

  Dartey, Anita Fafa; Phuma-Ngaiyaye, Ellemes; Phetlhu, DeliweRene (IJHSR, 2017)

  Uniqueness among human beings is innate and it influences behaviour and way of life. Different people perceive things differently even under the same conditions. Midwives as employees and humanitarian workers are throwing ...
• Supporting mothers to bond with their newborn babies: Strategies used in a neonatal intensive care unit at a tertiary hospital in Malawi 

  Phuma-Ngaiyaye, Ellemes (Elsevier, 2016)

  BACKGROUND: Maternalenewborn bonding during the first hours of is crucial to infant development. Effective bonding requires that newborn baby and mother be close to each another, so that the baby can signal his/her needs ...
• The International Ethics Conference: An Eye Opener 

  Phuma, Ellemes (ERIC, 2010)

  In this text, Ellemes Phuma, shares her experience and the benefits she derived from the International Ethics Conference held at the University of Botswana (UB). As a graduate student in nursing at that university, she ...
• Using preceptors to improve nursing students' clinical learning outcomes: A Malawian students' perspective 

  Phuma-Ngaiyaye, Ellemes; Bvumbwe, Thokozani; Chipeta, Mep Coretta (Elsevier, 2017)

  OBJECTIVE: Clinical environment remains an important aspect in the development of student's competence, confidence and fulfillment of their expected learning outcomes. Preceptors and clinical teachers play a significant ...
• Nursing and midwifery students’ experiences and perception of their clinical learning environment in Malawi: a mixed-method study 

  Mbakaya, B. C.; Kalembo, F. W.; Zgambo, M.; Konyani, A.; Lungu, F.; Tveit, B.; Kaasen, A.; Simango, M.; Bvumbwe, T. (BMC, 2020)

  BACKGROUND: The clinical learning environment is an important part of the nursing and midwifery training as it helps students to integrate theory into clinical practice. However, not all clinical learning environments ...
• Why pregnant women delay to initiate and utilize free antenatal care service: a qualitative study in the Southern District of Mzimba, Malawi 

  Funsani, Priscilla; Jiang, Hong; Yang, Xiaoguang; Zimba, Atupele; Bvumbwe, Thokozani; Qian, Xu (PMPH, 2021)

  AIM: The study aimed to explore factors related to the initiation and utilization of focused antenatal care (FANC) in the Southern District of Mzimba, Malawi. METHODS: This study used an exploratory qualitative design. ...
• Transition-to-practice guidelines: Enhancing the quality of nursing education 

  Bvumbwe, T.; Mtshali, N. (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2018)

  BACKGROUND. A de-link between initial training and transition to practice has been reported. Effective transitioning to practice enhances competences and confidence among newly graduated nurses. OBJECTIVES. To develop ...
• Transforming Nursing Education to Strengthen Health System in Malawi: An Exploratory Study 

  Bvumbwe, Thokozani; Mtshali, Ntombifikile Gloria (Bentham Open, 2018)

  BACKGROUND: Malawi made great strides to increase the number of nurses through the Emergency Human Resource for Health Program. However, quantity of health workforce alone is not adequate to strengthen the health system. ...
• A middle-range model for improving quality of nursing education in Malawi 

  Bvumbwe, Thokozani M.; Mtshali, Ntombifikile G. (AOSIS, 2018-03-22)

  BACKGROUND: Despite a global consensus that nurses and midwives constitute the majority and are a backbone of any country’s health workforce system, productive capacity of training institutions remains low and still ...
• Post-2015, why delay to seek healthcare? perceptions and field experiences from TB healthcare providers in northern Malawi: a qualitative study 

  Chimbatata, Nathan B. W.; Zhou, Chang-Ming; Chimbatata, Chikondi M.; Xu, Biao (Biomed central, 2017)

  BACKGROUND: Malawi is a low-income country with high Tuberculosis (TB) burden. TB diagnosis delay and untimely initiation of treatment is still a major problem in Malawi which could increase the risk of tuberculosis ...
• Infertility in Sub-Saharan Africa: a woman’s issue for how long? a qualitative review of literature 

  Chimbatata, Nathan B. W.; Malimba, Chikondi (Scientific research publishing, 2016)

  Infertility or childlessness is a major reproductive health issue for females as well as males respectively. Many couples suffer from infertility worldwide and in Sub-Saharan Africa, which has a cultural preference for ...

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