Nurses

ABSTRACT The health reforms initiated in Benin in 2016 have allowed the reorganization of the practice of health professions in private clients, including nursing. To describe the socio-demographic and academic characteristics of nurses applying for authorization to open and operate Private Nursing Practices (CSIP) in Benin. A review of the applications for opening and operating CSIPs, submitted from 2021 to 2024 and selected by exhaustive probability sampling, was carried out. Linear relationships between certain variables were identified using the Pearson correlation test with the Stata/IC 16.0 statistical analysis software. 306 Beninese applicants, 72.55% of whom were men, were registered. Their average age was 38 years and 31 (10.1307%) were aged 60 and over. 53.9213% of the requested installation sites were located in Alibori, Atacora, Borgou and Donga. 76.4705% of the nursing diplomas presented were obtained between 2017 and 2022. 68.6274% of these diplomas came from abroad, including 55.2287% from Burkina Faso. In addition, 69.60% of the diplomas presented were the State Nursing Diploma, 73.70% of which were issued in Burkina Faso. Authorization was granted to 87.11% of the applicants. Applicants of retirement age in Benin raise the issue of sponsorship, the legal contours of which deserve to be clarified. The unequal distribution of installation sites requires the development of a private health map with the objective of Universal Health Coverage. The predominance of foreign diplomas implies the assessment of the skills of their holders.

Post-operative wound infections have been one of the factors for increasing cost, morbidity and mortality related to surgical operations and are increasingly becoming a major problem worldwide. This study examines the post-operative wound care practices among nurses in selected hospitals in Osun State. A descriptive cross-sectional design was adopted, a purposive sampling technique was used to select the respondents. Structured questionnaire was used to collect data and the analysis was done with Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25 while descriptive and inferential statistics were used to present the data. Findings shows that more than half (60.5%) of the respondents had good post-operative wound care practices while every four out of every ten nurses (39.5%) in the study had poor post-operative wound care practices among nurses. 39.5% had poor post-operative wound care practices. The results also showed that (58.0%) have a positive attitude towards post-operative wound care practices among nurses. It was also revealed that above half of the respondents (51.6%) have good knowledge of surgical wound dressing while 24.7% had poor knowledge about surgical wound dressing. This study concluded that the more than half of the respondents have good practice of postoperative wound care There is no relationship between the knowledge of nurses on surgical wound care dressing and post-operative wound care practice.

Background: The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is one of the major health crisis worldwide. Mental health of medical and nursing staff met greatly challenged during the immediate wake of the viral epidemic and most of the studies focused on short term impact of pandemic. This study tried to explore the long term impact of Covid-19 on functional health status and QOL among nurses. Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine the impact of Covid-19 on functional capacity and Quality of Life (QOL) among female nurses. Methods: 50 Nurses working in COVID-19 pandemic were included. Their functional status was assessed using 6minute walk test (6MWT) and SF- 36 questionnaire was used to evaluate the Quality of Life. The data was collected and analysed with appropriate statistical tools. Results: The study results showed that the mean value of 6MWT observed in nurses was 298±117meters and average Gait speed was 0.85±0.28 meters per second. SF-36 scores which is related to the QOL shows that, the least scored components of quality of life was role limitation to physical health (Mean/SD =12.50±29.12 ) followed by role limitation due to emotional problem (Mean/SD=37.30±18.62) and role limitation due to energy/fatigue (Mean/SD=37.80±18.16). The highest score was obtained for the component social functioning (Mean/SD=53.50±14.95). Conclusion: This study concluded that functional ability of nurses worked in Covid pandemic is reduced and health related quality of life observed low in the component of role limitation due to physical health.

Nurses are involved in the prevention and management of chronic diseases like hypertension in primary health care settings. However, information about the roles of nurses in prevention and managing high blood pressure in South-South Nigeria remains scarce. Therefore, this research attempts to relate the performance of nurses roles in preventing high blood pressure with their qualifications in primary health care centres in Delta State. Interviewer’s administered questionnaire was used to gather information from eighty-five nurses chosen from the twenty-nine randomly selected primary health care centres in the twenty five local government areas of Delta State. Results show that the nurses performed the roles at varying degrees judged to be poor overall. The nurses’ identified roles and level of performance bear no significant relationship to their qualifications. It was also observed that most of the nurses had no training in the management of hypertension and do not use the recommended NHA guidelines. These indicate the need for facilitators to organize training courses on hypertension management for nurses, and integrate such into the curriculum for nursing education.