African Journal of Nursing and Midwifery

African Journal of Nursing and Midwifery ISSN: 2756-3332 Vol. 14 (3), pp. 001-011, March, 2026. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

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Shifting the Narrative: Public Perceptions of the Nursing Image in South African Private Acute Care

Alida Van Tonder and Neltjie C. Van Wyk*

Department of Nursing Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria.

Accepted 08 October, 2025

The aim of this study was to determine and describe the perception that visitors to acute care units have, regarding the image of nurses and nursing and to make appropriate recommendations to raise the profile of nurses and to encourage more respect for the profession. The public’s image of nurses is tarnished by newspaper reports on poor patient care. A questionnaire was used to collect data from visitors of patients receiving acute care at two private hospitals in the Gauteng Province in South Africa. They were selected as a section of the public who were in contact with nurses and who were thus aware of what nurses do and the relationship between nurses and their patients, due to their family or friends being cared for by nurses. A convenience sample was used whereby the first 110 willing adults (18 years or older) who visited patients in two identified acute care units of two selected private hospitals in a specific week, during 16:00 and 20:00 h, were invited to participate in the study. The data was analyzed through descriptive statistics by means of a computerized statistical program and presented as frequency tables, pie diagrams, figures and percentages. The participants described a positive image of nurses and nursing. The results contradict the negative image of nurses as portrayed by the media. This could be due to the fact that, the media focuses only on newsworthy events in society, unfortunately in the majority of cases with a negative meaning. The results of the study, indicating a positive image of nurses and nursing by the public, could serve as a means to enhance the image of nurses by communicating it to the media. In the event of the media becoming aware of negative incidents, a cooperative agreement between the hospital and newspaper management should ensure that the true facts are being reflected in the reports.

Key words: Public’s perception of nursing, status of nurses, nursing profession.
 

African Journal of Nursing and Midwifery ISSN: 2756-3332 Vol. 14 (3), pp. 001-005, March, 2026. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

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Voices of Care: Inpatients’ Perspectives on Quality Nursing Services in a Chinese Hospital

Shi H. Zhao¹* and Thitinut Akkadechanunt²

¹Department of Neurosurgery, Harbin Medical University, Peoples Republic of China.
²Faculty of Nursing, Chiang Mai University, Thailand.

Accepted 11 November, 2025

The purpose of this study is to explore patients’ perceptions of quality nursing care. Under the changing health care environment, more emphasis is placed on patient-centered care. To meet patients’ needs and expectations, patients’ perceptions of quality nursing care must be given more concern; thus, 440 patients (purposive sample) in 18 inpatient nursing units in a China hospital were selected. A questionnaire on the perception of quality nursing care scale was distributed to patients to find out the level of quality care perceived by them. Using descriptive statistics to analyze patients’ data, the overall mean score and each category mean score of the quality of nursing care as perceived by patients were at a high level. Patients perceived the highest mean score in the category of progress of the nursing process, while they perceived the lowest in preconditions for care. Also, it was observed that quality nursing care presented a challenge for nursing administrators to develop strategies for improving nursing care in those categories where patients had lower quality nursing care than others, such as psychological support or the nurse’s sense of humor.

Key words: Patients’ perceptions, nursing care, quality nursing.
 

African Journal of Nursing and Midwifery ISSN: 2756-3332 Vol. 14 (2), pp. 001-008, February, 2026. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

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Assessing the Efficacy of Digital Marketing Platforms in South Africa's Luxury Lodge Sector 

Corne Meintjes¹, Ilse Niemann-Struweg¹* and Danie Petzer²

¹School of Business and Economics, Monash, South Africa.
²Department of Marketing Management, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Accepted 5 September, 2025

The information-intensive nature of the tourism industry suggests that the Internet is important in marketing tourism destinations. This article evaluates the marketing related aspects of luxury lodge websites in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Through systematic sampling, 20 luxury lodge websites were selected from a population of 40 rated as four and five star lodges by the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa. The research design is a concurrent mixed method approach where quantitative and qualitative data are collected concurrently with qualitative data leading the analysis and reporting. Websites were evaluated against criteria developed through a content analysis of existing website evaluation models. The study finds that the websites are generally of a high standard and appealing, but lack originality and uniqueness. The study highlights issues pertaining to the current web marketing approaches of luxury lodges that cater for up-market international tourism, but employs marketing approaches for a local market.

Key words: Websites, luxury lodges, evaluation criteria, marketing.

African Journal of Nursing and Midwifery ISSN: 2756-3332 Vol. 14 (2), pp. 001-008, February, 2026. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

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Prototyping a Nursing Management Information System across Primary and Secondary Healthcare in Depok, Indonesia

Rr. Tutik Sri Hariyati¹*, Mera Kartika Delimayanti² and T. Widyatuti¹

¹Faculty of Nursing, University of Indonesia, Indonesia.
²Politeknik Negri Jakarta, Indonesia.

Accepted 20 November, 2025

Communicable diseases and children’s malnutrition are of significant health concerns in Indonesia. Some obstacles of overcoming these health problems are ranging from the lack of health promotion and disease prevention, inadequate early warning system, delayed case finding, and lack of collaboration between hospital and Puskesmas in the continuation of case management. These conditions may keep reoccurring due to the lack of documentation accuracy and prompt data report since the documenting and reporting processes are handled manually by the Puskesmas officer altogether with the community health cadres. This research is a preliminary study of the implementation of the management information system in the hospital and Puskesmas. The research is designed as a qualitative approach to explorate current situation and incremental study. The current findings from these puskesmas and hospitals demonstrate a need of an integrated nursing management information system (NMIS). Therefore, the research has developed a prototype NMIS of the Puskesmas and hospital. Accordingly, the research needs to be continued to the try out and implementation phase in the Puskesmas and the hospital setting.

Key words: Early warning, documentation, nursing, nursing management information system.
 

African Journal of Nursing and Midwifery ISSN: 2756-3332 Vol. 14 (1), pp. 001-007, January, 2026. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

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Advancing Medical Frameworks: A Synthesis of Modeling and Analysis Techniques

M. N. Lakhoua¹* and F. Khanchel²

¹LACS, ENIT, BP 37, Le Belvedere, 1002 Tunis, Tunisia.
²Medical School of Tunis, Tunisia.

Accepted 15 November, 2025

This article presents briefly the famous methods of modeling and analysis used for the medical framework. Some methods present hiatuses and they are neither precisely coherent nor complementary for modeling the functional system and decisional of an enterprise. Indeed, the use of these methods is an important step within the medical framework which is concerned with the quality assurance of the medical guidelines and protocols. In fact, quality assurance represents the programs of regular assessment of medical and nursing activities to evaluate the quality of medical care. Our contribution in this paper consists in presenting on the one hand the methods SADT (structured analysis design technique), OOPP (objective oriented project planning) and GRAI (graph with results and actions interrelated) and on the other hand, a review on the methods of analysis and modeling used for the medical framework. An example of the application of the SADT method showing how to improve protocols and implement them in medical guidelines is presented.

Key words: Medical framework, quality assurance, analysis, modeling.
 

African Journal of Nursing and Midwifery ISSN: 2756-3332 Vol. 14 (1), pp. 001-008, January, 2026. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

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Enhancing Patient Experience Through Visitor Engagement: An Analysis of Bedside Care in a U.S. Midwestern Hospital

Huey-Ming Tzeng¹* and Chang-Yi Yin.²

¹Department of Nursing, School of Health Professions and Studies, University of Michigan-Flint, Flint, Michigan, USA.
²Department of History, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Accepted 13 November, 2025

A descriptive study was conducted to understand the prevalence of non-staff visitor presence in acute inpatient care settings. This paper also summarizes recent studies on the issues related to promoting efficient and effective care transitions and the recent movement of embracing family and non-family visitor involvement in patient care. This descriptive study was conducted in three inpatient care units of a Michigan hospital in April, 2007. A trained research assistant counted the number of visitors for each patient on two weekdays and two weekend days at three predetermined time points for each day. Descriptive analyses were used to answer the question of: What is the prevalence of visitor presence in a specific hospital in the Midwest United States? About 36% of the patients had at least one visitor present during their hospital stays. Among adult medical patients, about 22% of them had at least one visitor present. Among pediatric patients, about 59% of them had at least one visitor present during the hospital stays. A culture of non-staff visitor involvement in bedside care exists in the US hospital environment when a child is hospitalized, but this is not necessarily the case when an adult is hospitalized.

Key words: Hospitals, safety, patients, family, professional-family relations, nursing care.