Two of the issues facing the South African Health Care System are the shortage of nursing staff and a lack o f adequate skills to provide quality patient care. The hospital under study experienced a critical shortage o f applications from professional registered nurses, consequently a staffing...

Managing a workforce suffering from HIV and TB leads to management and administrative issues for nurse managers to deal with. The purpose of this study is to describe the experiences in the management of a nursing workforce suffering from HIV and TB in selected hospitals in South Africa. An...

The issue of how and why gamblers end up in debt has received comparatively little attention in the literature. Data from the 2007 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) revealed that although problem gamblers were more likely than non-problem gamblers to have forms of financial debt, just...