Footprints of the nursing profession : current trends and emerging issues in / editor, Lydia Azlato.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

University of Ghana. School of Nursing, issuing body.

Aziato, Lydia, editor.

Series:

Clinical sciences series (Accra, Ghana) ; no. 2.

Clinical sciences series ; no. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nursing--Study and teaching--Ghana.

Nursing.

Nursing--Ghana.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Place of Publication:

Legon, Accra, Ghana : University of Ghana, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Reader contains educative and exciting chapters centred on the nursing profession and research areas of faculty members in Ghana. The target readers are nursing students of all categories, nurse educators, administrators, clinicians, and researchers locally and internationally.

Contents:

Foreword

Preface

About the contributors

Nursing education in Ghana : an insight into undergraduate and graduate programmes / Ernestina S. Donkor

The newly qualified graduate nurse : workplace experiences and challenges from the Ghanaian perspective / Atswei Adzo Kwashie

Planning : the role of nurse-managers at the unit level / Adelaide Maria Ansah Ofei

The concept of pain and trends in post-operative pain management : implications for nursing practice in Ghana / Lydia Aziato

Road traffic injuries (RTIs) in Ghana : challenges to nursing care / Lillian Akorfa Ohene

A historical description of the emergence of HIV/AIDS in Ghana / Prudence P. Mwini-Nyaledzigbor

Implementation of the national breastfeeding policy in Ghana : challenges and future prospects / Comfort K. Affram & Ernestina S. Donkor

Female infertility and its management in Ghana : emerging concerns and strategies / Florence Naab & Ernestina S. Donkor

Curbing unsafe abortions in ghana : policy implications and stakeholders' concerns / Patience Aniteye

Trends in the management of diabetes mellitus : nurses' perspectives / Kwadwo Ameyaw Korsah

Trends in stroke : roles of nurses and family caregivers / Cecilia Eliason & Patricia Aradu

Nursing research : a focus on qualitative orientation and application / Lydia Aziato & Kwadwo Ameyaw Korsah.

Notes:

"University of Ghana 65th anniversary reader project."

"School of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 17, 2014).

ISBN:

9988-647-18-2

OCLC:

889537595