African Journal of Nursing and Midwifery

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.

African Journal of Nursing and Midwifery ISSN: 2756-3332 Vol. 13 (1), pp. 001-005, January, 2025. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

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Enhancing Quality of Life Through Improved Mobility in Elderly and Geriatric Patients

Anna Hudakova¹* and Anna Hornakova²

¹Faculty of Health Care Branches, University of Prešov, Prešov, Slovakia.
²Institute of Language Competence, Lifelong Study Centre, University of  Prešov, Prešov, Slovakia.

Accepted 15 November, 2024

Abstract

Quality of life in older people is significantly influenced by their mobilization. Using the statistical comparison of observed groups we found out that the mobilization of elderly and geriatric patients improves their quality of life. We used nonparametric Mann - Whitney test as an evaluation method. To determine relations between variables we used the Spearman correlation coefficient. Geriatric patients have shown rates of mobility in the BREF questionnaire (item 15) and ADL test at the same level.Physical activity represents a significant attribute of mobility in seniors, which confirmed the results of foreign studies. Reduced mobility is a maximum barrier in hospitalized geriatric patients. The positive overall impact of physical activity was reflected in increased confidence of seniors in their own abilities.In nursing there must be a continuous mobilization of geriatric patients according to their degree of dependence.

Key words: Mobility, quality of life, senior, geriatric patient, correlation, self-sufficiency.
 

African Journal of Nursing and Midwifery ISSN: 2756-3332 Vol. 13 (1), pp. 001-006, January, 2025. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

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Exploring the Link between Psychological Job Factors and Back Pain in Nursing Professionals

Hamid Sharif Nia¹*, Ali Akbar Haghdoost², Zahra beheshti³, Mohammad Ali Soleymani⁴, Nasim Bahrami⁴, Hamid Hojjati⁵ and Fatemeh Haji Hosseine³

¹Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Babol University of Medical Sciences,
Babol, Iran.
²Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Center for Modeling in Health Center, Kerman University of Medical
Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
³Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran.
⁴Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Qazvin University of Medical Science, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran.
⁵Young Researchers Club, Aliabad Katool Branch, Islamic Azad University, Aliabad Katool, Iran.

Accepted 23 October, 2024

Abstract

To gain more insight into the prevalence rates of backache and to determine the relation between occupational stress among the Nurses. In this cross-sectional study a questionnaire was carried out among 400 nursing personnel in three general hospitals in Amol, Iran. The questionnaire had 3 sections: demographic information, psychosocial stress related to work, and of psychological stress related to work. The annual prevalence was 80% of the cases. Results indicated that, there was a significant relationship between low back pain and female gender (OR=2.8), exercise (OR=0.4), height (OR=1.06) and weight (OR=1.4). Also a significant relationship existed between LBP relationship with colleagues (OR=1.8) and hastiness at work (OR=0.6). Out findings show that low back pain was common and a serious problem among nurses. Moreover, we found positive association between low back pain and job stresses.

Key words: Low back pain, demographic factors, psychological, psychosocial, nurses.
 

African Journal of Nursing and Midwifery ISSN: 2756-3332 Vol. 12 (11), pp. 001-007, November, 2024. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

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A model for improving treatment outcome of patient with drug-resistant tuberculosis in Ethiopia

Addisalem Yilma Tefera¹; Sheila Mokoboto-Zwane¹

¹Affiliation:  College of Human Sciences, Department of Health Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.
Sheila Mokoboto-Zwane1(co-author).

Received 24 April, 2023; Revised 6 June, 2023; Accepted 7 June, 2023 and Published 25 November, 2024

Abstract

Objective: To develop and describe a model for improving the treatment outcomes of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis in Ethiopia. Methods: The study was conducted at Nineteen health facilities designated to provide service for patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis in Ethiopia. The researcher used a mixed method research design, both Quantitative and qualitative data collected to address the research questions. The findings from the quantitative cross sectional along with a qualitative, exploratory, descriptive, and contextual research design was used to identify the main concept, which is the initial step in theory/model development. The structure and process of the model were visually illustrated and described. Result: The findings of this study suggest that addressing the holistic need of patients at early phase of treatment could improve the patient's final treatment outcome. This could be strengthened by improving health care personnel' competence, creating a friendly environment, and involving family, community, and social support organizations in treatment planning and adherence support activities. Competence and supportive environment were identified as the main concept. Based on this, a model for improving the treatment outcomes of drug-resistant tuberculosis patients for health care practitioners was designed, visualized, and described. Conclusion: This model primarily developed to provide healthcare providers with a guide to the intervention required to provide individual patient care throughout the treatment process, as well as the required resources to support healthcare providers in improving service quality and, ultimately, to improve the treatment outcome of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis in Ethiopia.

Key concepts: Communication; competence; counselling; drug-resistant tuberculosis; influence; patient-centred care; patient support; supportive environment; treatment adherence; treatment outcome.