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NURSE INTERNS’ COMPETENCE IN PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT FOR ADULT PATIENTS IN HEALTH FACILITIES IN WESTERN REGION OF KENYA
(MMUST, 2024-09)Physical assessment is an essential part of the overall health assessment which constitutes the first phase of nursing process. Physical assessment competence of nurse interns has been observed as insufficient in evaluation ... -
NURSING STUDENTS’ AND CLINICAL INSTRUCTORS’ PERCEPTION OF CLINICAL LEARNING AT MOI TEACHING AND REFERRAL HOSPITAL AND KAKAMEGA COUNTY HOSPITAL KENYA
(MMUST, 2019-09)One of the criteria for effective learning in nursing education is clinical learning experience by students. Clinical competence is the ability to effectively integrate cognitive, affective and psychomotor skills when ... -
PARENT-ADOLESCENT COMMUNICATION ON SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN SIRISIA SUB-COUNTY, KENYA
(MMUST, 2017-11)Adolescents are more than one billion worldwide and more than 75% are found in developing countries and frequently engage in risky sexual behaviors, which result in unprotected sex, unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted ... -
PATIENTS’ MANAGEMENT OUTCOME OF TRIAGED AND CODED PATIENTS AT ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT, KENYATTA NATIONAL HOSPITAL, KENYA
(2023)The goal of triage is to prioritize patients who require the most urgent care and increase efficiency when resources are insufficient to treat all patients as per their degree or grade of injury. An effective and efficient ... -
PERINATAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH BIRTH ASPHYXIA AMONG NEONATES IN MATERNITY WARD KAKAMEGA COUNTY REFFERAL HOSPITAL, KENYA
(MMUST, 2017-11)Despite the important advances in perinatal care in the past decades, asphyxia remains a severe condition leading to significant mortality and morbidity. Perinatal asphyxia has an incidence of 1 to 6 per 1,000 live full-term ... -
PREDICTORS OF COVID-19 PREVENTION PRACTICES AMONG HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS AT BUSIA COUNTY REFERRAL HOSPITAL-KENYA
(2024-01)SARS-COV-2 is a subgenus of the Sarbecovirus, a member of the Coronaviridae family, and an enveloped RNA virus. November 2019 saw the discovery of the first COVID-19 human case in China's Wuhan live market. The earliest ... -
PREDICTORS OF EXCLUSIVE BREAST-FEEDING AMONG WOMEN IN FORMAL EMPLOYMENT ATTENDING CHILD WELFARE CLINIC AT JARAMOGI OGINGA ODINGA TEACHING AND REFERRAL HOSPITAL
(MMUST, 2019-02)Breast-feeding lays the foundation for healthy growth and child development. Despite the documented benefits of exclusively breast-feeding, studies have found that several predictors influence the duration of breast-feeding ... -
PREDICTORS OF HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG PRIMARY CAREGIVERS OF CANCER PATIENTS IN KAKAMEGA COUNTY, KENYA
(2024)Primary Stress from the burden of providing care for a patient with cancer frequently results in reduced Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) for caregivers. The majority of research done in Western populations has ... -
PREDICTORS OF LOSS TOFOLLOW UP AMONG ADULTPATIENTSIN-ITIATED ON ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY IN NAKURU WEST SUB-COUNTY HEALTH FACILITIES, KENYA
(MMUST, 2020-11-09)The loss to follow up (LTFU) has reversed the successful strengthening of antiretro-viral therapy(ART) programmes globally. The factors associated with the LTFU still remain a challenge to many countries, becoming a ... -
PREVALENCE AND ASSOCIATED DETERMINANTS OF MALARIA INFECTION AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN IN MALARIA EPIDEMIC AREAS OF WESTERN HIGHLAND OF KENYA.
(MMUST, 2021-05-11)Globally malaria in pregnancy continues to cause important public health concern for health care sector. Apparently, the disease remains to be a major determinant of maternal morbidity and mortality. In Kenya malaria ... -
UTILIZATION OF CONTRACEPTIVES AMONG UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN MASINDE MULIRO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (MMUST)
(MMUST, 2017-11)Contraceptives uptake among the youth has been a sensitive and controversial issue in the society that has resulted to various social problems that include unwanted pregnancies and sexual transmitted infections among ...
