Papers by Libuseng Rathobei
Health SA Gesondheid
Background: Aggression and violence in psychiatric clinical facilities are a common case, and men... more Background: Aggression and violence in psychiatric clinical facilities are a common case, and mental healthcare workers utilise various management strategies to combat it. It is therefore crucial for mental healthcare workers to acquire skills for the management strategies of aggressive behaviour of psychiatric patients.Aim: The aim of the study was to describe mental healthcare workers’ experiences in the management strategies of aggressive and violent behaviour by psychiatric patients in Maseru district.Setting: A psychiatric hospital situated to the south in Maseru in the rural countryside and general hospital located in the western lowlands of Lesotho in the village of Morija were used.Methods: This study adopted a qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual research design. There were two focus group interviews conducted per clinical facility, which consisted of six members in each group. There were four participants for individual interviews from psychiatric clinical ...
African Journal of Health Professions Education, 2021
Background. There is global awareness of investment in higher education to ensure quality learnin... more Background. There is global awareness of investment in higher education to ensure quality learning. Provision of quality feedback is perceived as a key benchmark of effective learning and a vital requirement in meeting students’ expectations. Nevertheless, increased students’ demands and expectations regarding quality feedback compete with increased pressure on academic resources, which may result in student dissatisfaction. Despite the high priority that higher education institutions (HEIs) place on quality of feedback, insufficient research studies have been conducted of student nurses’ perceptions of such feedback. Objectives. To describe nursing students’ perceptions of feedback received from educators in a selected HEI. Method. A non-experimental, exploratory descriptive design was used to guide the research process. The non-probability convenience sampling method was used, with 75 nursing students as respondents. A descriptive statistics procedure was used to present the findi...
Journal of Nursing and Health, 2021
BackgroundMeta-analysis of international literature indicate high frequencies of aggression in me... more BackgroundMeta-analysis of international literature indicate high frequencies of aggression in mental health setting. Several studies indicate that among professional health workers, nurses are more likely than other staff members to experience aggressive incidences from patients. Furthermore, based on cause, nurses apply range of interventions in managing aggression, however, despite their perceived value of their intervention in managing aggression, no single intervention is sufficient for handling aggressive patients to stay in control in wards. Despite high priority placed on patient aggression management, insufficient research studies have been conducted on nurses’ perceptions regarding current skills in minimizing patient’s aggression.ObjectivesThe purpose of the study was to describe nurses’ perceptions regarding current assessment skills in minimizing patient’s aggression at selected Psychiatric hospital.MethodologyNon-experimental, exploratory, descriptive research design w...
Nursing students and their clinical instructors in higher education institutions are faced with c... more Nursing students and their clinical instructors in higher education institutions are faced with challenges regarding their clinical teaching and learning strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to determine the perceptions of nursing students regarding clinical teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. A non-experimental descriptive quantitative research design was used to collect data from 300 nursing students who were enrolled at selected higher education institutions in the 2021/22 academic year in Lesotho. Convenience sampling was used to recruit the respondents who completed a structured self-report questionnaire. Permission to conduct the study was granted by relevant authorities (ID147-2021). Data were analysed using the Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS vs 23) and presented using tables and graphs and described analytically. The findings of the current study show that the minimum age of participants was 19 years and the maximum age was ...
Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery, 2021
Aggressive behaviour of inpatients in mental health facilities occurs globally and is a serious n... more Aggressive behaviour of inpatients in mental health facilities occurs globally and is a serious nursing problem. Consequently, there is insufficient research studies conducted among nurses regarding the types of aggressive behaviour displayed by patients in psychiatric institutions. The purpose of this study was to determine nurses’ perceptions regarding the types of aggressive behaviour displayed by patients in a selected psychiatric hospital in Lesotho. A quantitative descriptive survey was used to collect data from 119 nurses who were selected by quota sampling. The data were collected by means of a self-administered questionnaire, analysed by using SPSS (version 25), and displayed by using tables, frequencies, standard deviations, means and Pearson’s chi-square test. The findings reported that the types of aggressive behaviour included verbal aggression (86%, n = 103), physical aggression against objects (79%, n = 94), physical aggression against self (65.5%, n = 78), and physic...
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