School of Nursing (SoN): Recent submissions

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New Don Assimilation into Organizational Culture: A Case Study of Nursing Faculty from Two Institutions of Higher Learning in Kenya

Simon Macharia Kamau , Rose Jelangat Rotich (2024)

Whereas expert clinical nurses were needed to fill nurse educator vacancies, academia had fairly different requirements, expectations and responsibilities as compared to clinical practice. The transition from the industry ...
Registered Nurses Assignment-Workload for Teaching Hospitals in Kenya: Utilizing the Research Brief with Annotated Bibliography Approach.

Kamau Simon Macharia (2015)

Nursing is important in quality and safety of hospital care and in patients' perceptions of their care. There seems to be a close association between patient safety, undergraduate nursing students' learning with nurse ...
Quality of life of nursing students from nine countries: A cross-sectional study

Jonas Preposi Cruza, ⁎ , Rhea Faye D. Felicilda-Reynaldob , Simon Ching Lamc , Felipe Aliro Machuca Contrerasd,e , Helen Shaji John Cecilyf , Ioanna V. Papathanasioug , Howieda A. Foulyh , Simon Macharia Kamaui , Glenn Ford D. Valdezj , Kathryn A. Adamsk , Paolo C. Coletl (2018-04)

Background: Nursing student life is stressful as a result of the work they exert to learn concepts ranging from basic to complicated issues and health concerns for maintaining overall human health. Hence, assessing ...
Registered Nurses Assignment-Workload for Teaching Hospitals in Kenya:Utilizing the research breif with annotated bibiliography Approach

Simon Kamau (2015)

Nursing is important in quality and safety of hospital care and in patients' perceptions of their care. There seems to be a close association between patient safety, undergraduate nursing students' learning with nurse ...
Incivility among nursing faculty: A multi-country study

Mohammed Baqer Al-Jubouri , Patience Samson-Akpan , Sadeq Al-Fayyadh , Felipe Aliro Machuca-Contreras , Brigid Unim , Srdjan M. Stefanovic , Hawa Alabdulaziz , Ryan Michael F. Oducado , Awoala Nelson George , Nuran Aydın Ates , Matanee Radabutr , Simon Kamau , Joseph Almazan (2020-04)

Background: In nursing programs, incivility can be a main issue affecting future registered nurses, and this may threaten patient safety. Nursing faculty play an important role in this scenario to reduce incivility. Purpose: ...
Peer to peers nurse managers’ on supporting structures and systems they support in a resource: Constrained setting in Kenya

Simon Macharia Kamau (2014-12)

This is an excerpt from a wider study on job description of nurse managers. Aimed to describe the experiences and perceptions of nurse managers towards the various factors that affect their roles as nurse managers in the ...
Applying Margaret Newman’s theory of health as expanding consciousness to psychosocial nursing care of HIV infected patients in Kenya

Kamau Simon Macharia , Rotich Rose Jelagat , Mwembe David Juma (2014-11)

Margaret Newman’s Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness is considered a grand nursing theory, she described a process of becoming more of oneself, of finding greater meaning in life, and of reaching new dimensions ...
Determinants of Smallholder Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for Irrigation Water in Kerio Valley Basin, Kenya

Jonah Kiprop 1 , Kelvin Mulungu , Noah Kibet& Antony Macharia (2017)

Food security is the major outcome of irrigation development activities. However, this cannot be achieved without sustainable water resources management. With the increasing budgetary constraints in many developing countries, ...
Interrogating Social Media Netiquette and Online Safety among University Students from Assorted Disciplines

Simon Macharia Kamau, Khadiala Khamasi & Margaret Kamara Kosgey (2016-08)

Despite the convenient and compelling nature of social media, netiquette or good conduct in its use remains a remote practice. Being a primary agent of socialization, the social media is a popular means by which individuals ...
Health Care Workers Adherence to Infection Prevention Practices and Control Measures: A Case of a Level Four District Hospital in Kenya

Alice W. Gichuhi, Simon M. Kamau , Elijah Nyangena , Z. Ngalo Otieno-Ayayo (2015-03)

Infection prevention practices and control are critical activities that influence the quality of health care services. This study was conducted to determine the health workers adherence to infection prevention and control ...
Quality of Life and the Predictive Roles of Religiosity and Spiritual Coping Among Nursing Students: A Multi-country Study

Rhea Faye D. Felicilda-Reynaldo • Jonas Preposi Cruz • lonna V. Papathanasiou • John C. Helen Shaji • Simon M. Kamau• Kathryn A. Adams • Glenn Ford D. Valdez (2019-02)

There has been high interest in religious and spirituality practices among college students due to positive benefits to university life. However, no studies have been conducted examining nursing students' religiosity and ...
Correlations between instructor’s caring behavior and nursing students’ caring behavior: an international study

Leodoro J. Labrague , Konstantinos Tsaras , Denise M. McEnroe - Petitte , Olaide B. Edet , Jawaher Bin Jumah , Shreedevi Balachandran , Judie Arulappan , Simon Macharia Kamau , Ioanna V. Papathanasiou (2016-05)

Introduction: Theoretically, caring relationship between faculty – student generates a caring moment. However, there is a scarcity of empirical evidence about how caring interactions with faculty can enhance students’ ...
An Advocacy Approach to Scaling up Involvement of Men in Maternal and Neonatal Child Health: A Model of Meteitei Sub-County of Kenya

Simon Macharia Kamau, Leah Chepkurui Ng’eno, Lily Chepketer Ng’eno (2017-08)

Male partners would tend to isolate themselves when it reaches a time when a woman is in the perinatal period. With men incorporated Meteitei region showcased that the death of another mother neonate or child was one ...
The Extent of Influence of Factors on Cigarette Smoking Among Teenagers in Baguio City: A Cross-Sectional Study

Joan cheruiyot, Marjorie Retuta , Geofrey Arasa , Sabella J. Kiprono , Scholastica Korir , Simon Macharia Kamau (2013)

Introduction: Although there are several studies conducted on teenage smoking, the causes to become smokers in adolescence remain unclear. Several factors were identified but the extent of its influence still obscure. Therefore, ...
Knowledge of Staff Nurses on Management of Deconditioning in Older Adults: A Cross- Sectional Study

Joan cheruiyot ., Jose Reinhard C. Laoingco , Simon Macharia Kamau (2013)

Introduction: A significant issue facing today’s acute care nurse is the ability to respond to the rising number of older adults admitted to the hospital, while simultaneously preventing complications of hospitalization ...
Intensive Care Management of Poisoning in a Resource-Limited Health Care Setting in Western Kenya

Macharia S. Kamau Chebor A. Kipbichii, Mwangi H. Ruiru (2014-09)

Poisoning due to pesticides is an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. About threemillion cases of poisoning occur worldwide annually, mostly in developing countries withOrganophosphates poisoning ...
Evaluation of the Relationship between Clinical Outcome of Early Neonatal Sepsis and HIV Exposure in Homa bay County Referral Hospital, Western Kenya

Jacqueline Mulongo Naulikha , Samson O Adoka and Charles Obonyo (2019)

Abstract Background: Maternal HIV is the leading cause of both maternal and child morbidity in Sub-Saharan Africa and very little is known about the relationship of HIV exposure and early neonatal sepsis. Objective: To ...
ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF INTEGRATION OF ICT ON ACQUISITION OF LITERACY SKILLS AMONG PRE-PRIMARY LEARNERS. A CASE OF NAROK SOUTH SUB-COUNTY, KENYA

Shinali, Mary Consolata (Educational Research International, 2020-05)

This paper discusses the Impact of Integration of ICT on Acquisition of Literacy Skills among Pre-Primary Learners. The world over, ICT in all spheres of life has created a social system which is driven by knowledge and ...
Bacteremia and Early Neonatal Mortality Among Kenyan Newborns in Health Facilities

Gillian Levine, MPH, PhDc; Judd Walson, MD, MPH- ; Maneesh Batra, MD, MPH, ; Jaqueline Mulongo, BSN, MPH (2013)

Neonatal mortality rates remain high in low-resource settings. We aimed to determine incidence and risk factors for bacteremia and early neonatal mortality among high-risk newborns in health facilities, to inform targeted ...
The Role of Nutritionists in Primary Health Care: A Case of Narok County Referral Hospital in Narok County

Stellah M Koini and Zeddy Lemein (2019)

The study identifies the perception of users in devolved in primary Health care (PHC) with regards to the role of nutritionists. This study also aims at acknowledging the importance of the nutritionist’s work for their ...

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