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Papers by Isabel Coetzee
The journal of nursing care, 2021
Higher education is going through a time of transition, full of challenges. Times call on nursing... more Higher education is going through a time of transition, full of challenges. Times call on nursing educators to facilitate learning in such a way that students are empowered to become future leaders in the profession. Appreciative study is a new educational approach that is used to bring about organizational change in the area of teaching and learning. It is an approach to learning where emphasis is focused on positive aspects of learning rather than on negative aspects. The goal of this article is to clarify how appreciative education is applied in nursing education institutions, including evaluation and feedback practices to increase outputs. Introduction: Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a collective approach to positive (educational) improvements in the institutions. Appreciative Inquiry is a theory, a model of change and a collection of tools and techniques that promote the exploration, dreaming, design and development of a common vision that encourages people within an organization to move towards a mutual destiny. Appreciative Inquiry is a "co-built process that is supported by all those who seek to build opportunities for development and progress focused on the quest for the positive heart." The optimistic essence is found in higher education everywhere people function in ways that improve the learning as well as the mission and purpose of higher education. The optimistic core may serve as the basis for what the organization should do next. The optimistic center for educators may be to aim for educational excellence, which means quality student preparation and training, successful learning results and high-skill students bringing success to the profession. We need to reconsider our approach as educators in order to improve the educational practices and bring about positive change. Conclusion: Appreciative education is motivated by a mutual interest between educators and students to promote learning and view obstacles as growth opportunities. Educators who use appreciative instruction, derived from Appreciative Inquiry, to direct regular evaluation and feedback practices can have a positive effect on student success and the quality of NEI delivered items. The use of appreciative language during evaluation and feedback and the application of the Six-D phases of appreciative education can enhance the internal motivation, creativity and innovation of the students. Appreciative education qualities empower educators to plan and deliver professional nurse practitioners that can provide quality healthcare. Appreciative education is intended to understand the National Department of Health's co-constructed goal of delivering quality care to all South African people.
Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2013
Students bridge the theory-practice gap when they apply in practice what they have learned in cla... more Students bridge the theory-practice gap when they apply in practice what they have learned in class. A conceptual framework was developed that can serve as foundation to design for learning transfer at modular level. The framework is based on an adopted and adapted systemic model of transfer of learning, existing learning theories, constructive alignment, and the elements of effective learning opportunities. A convergent consensus-seeking process, which is typical of a qualitative approach, was used for expert review. The final conceptual framework consists of two principles: establishing a community of learning and the primacy of a learning outcome. The four steps entail: 1) activation of existing knowledge; 2) engaging with new information; 3) demonstrating competence; and 4) application in the real world. It is envisaged that by applying the framework educators in health care will design for transfer of learning, resulting in quality of care and optimal patient outcomes.
Journal of nursing and health studies, 2018
Higher education is experiencing a time of change that is rife with challenges. The times call fo... more Higher education is experiencing a time of change that is rife with challenges. The times call for educators in the nursing profession to facilitate learning in a way that students are empowered to become future leaders in the profession. Appreciative inquiry is an emerging educational method that is used to bring about organisational transformation in the teaching and learning arena. It is an approach to learning where emphasis is laid on positive aspects about learning rather than negative aspects. The purpose of this article is to explain how appreciative education is implemented in nursing education institutions including the assessment and feedback practices to enhance outputs.
Journal of Nursing and Health, May 2, 2018
Background: Nurses appear to be disengaged from their work and workplace cultures. A three-year e... more Background: Nurses appear to be disengaged from their work and workplace cultures. A three-year emancipatory practice development research project was done in 11 critical care units in Gauteng, a province in South Africa supported the statement. Existing workplace cultures in five public and six private critical care units were observed for a total of 230 hours. Communication was identified as one of the key challenges that affected teamwork negatively.
Journal of Nursing and Health, May 2, 2018
Promoting a person-centred workplace culture in a public nursing education institution in South Africa by fostering effective teamwork amongst nurse educators
Nurse Education Today, Apr 1, 2021
BACKGROUND Promoting a person-centred workplace culture in organisations is one of the most chall... more BACKGROUND Promoting a person-centred workplace culture in organisations is one of the most challenging tasks for both employers and employees. Person-centred workplace cultures and effective teamwork have been linked to achieving optimal organisational outcomes. AIM We report nurse educators' perceptions of the elements required for effective teamwork to promote a person-centred workplace culture in a public nursing education institution in South Africa. METHODS A consensus meeting with 32 participants, purposively selected from a population of nurse educators and nursing managers. Data were collected during the consensus meeting, which was facilitated by two external nursing education experts. Data were analysed thematically. RESULTS Three main themes emerged during the consensus meeting in relation to effective teamwork. The first theme was positive work relations, with categories of: knowing self and others, respecting self and others and trusting self and others. The second theme that emerged was effective communication with categories of: sharing information, cultural sensitivity and diversity. The third theme was group cohesion with categories of: active participation, adherence to work plan, collective vision of goals and collective decision making. CONCLUSION Positive work relations open the door towards effective teamwork. Effective communication ensures the smooth dissemination of information and feedback to facilitate effective teamwork and in turn promote a person-centred workplace culture.
Southern African Journal of Critical Care, 2021
Death is a medical occurrence that has social, legal, religious and cultural consequences requiri... more Death is a medical occurrence that has social, legal, religious and cultural consequences requiring common clinical standards for its diagnosis and legal regulation. [1] There is no documented case of a person who fulfils the preconditions and criteria for brain death ever subsequently developing any return of brain function. [2,3] Clear medical standards for death certification augment the quality and rigor of death determination. [4-6] Currently there are no clinical guidelines on death determination in South Africa (SA), with clinicians using available international guidelines, which vary markedly and are not always applicable to the SA context. [7-10] The World Federation This open-access article is distributed under Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC 4.0.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde, 2020
Letter by Gopalan et al. on article by Singh and Moodley (Singh JA, Moodley K. Critical care tria... more Letter by Gopalan et al. on article by Singh and Moodley (Singh JA, Moodley K. Critical care triaging in the shadow of COVID-19: Ethics considerations. S Afr Med J 2020;110(5):355-359. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2020.v110i5.14778); and response by Singh and Moodley.
Celebrating International Emergency Week With the Shroompies, a Bottle, and a Candle
Journal of Emergency Nursing, Sep 1, 2013
Patients' experiences of triage in an emergency department: A phenomenographic study
Applied Nursing Research
Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery
nursing is a practice-based profession and it is essential that pre-graduate students are sociali... more nursing is a practice-based profession and it is essential that pre-graduate students are socialised in the clinical learning environment from the beginning of their training. Consequently, clinical accompaniment is regarded as a vital component of a nursing programme to offer the necessary support to pregraduate students. the objective of this study was to explore and describe pregraduate students' view regarding the clinical accompaniment they received as part of the clinical component of the four-year programme. In this study a qualitative, contextual, explorative, descriptive and interpretive research design was used to explore and describe pre-graduate students' views of clinical accompaniment as part of the clinical component of the four-year programme. The findings of the study were based on how students viewed clinical accompaniment and they revealed: inadequate support from nurse educators, lack of resources, inadequate support from registered nurses, and disregard for student status. evaluating the clinical accompaniment of pre-graduate students utilising a positive approach of Appreciative Inquiry (AI), gave students the opportunity to give inputs into the aspect that works well (positive) as well as
Twelve tips for supervisors to move towards person-centered research supervision in health care sciences
Medical Teacher
International Journal of Critical Care, Sep 20, 2022
Acknowledgments: The authors would like to thank other members of the WFCCN working group for the... more Acknowledgments: The authors would like to thank other members of the WFCCN working group for their contribution to informing the WFCCN position statement on Standardization of cardiac arrest/medical emergency call telephone numbers in hospitals and health care facilities-2222 (9 August 2021).
Nursing Education 2020: Appreciative education to enhance quality outputs through assessment andfeedback practices
Journal of Molecular Genetics and Medicine, 2020
Family centered care in the critical care: Voices of family members
Journal of Nursing and Health, May 2, 2018
Lions donandprime;t eat grass...Addressing communication in critical care to enhance teamwork
Journal of Nursing and Health, May 2, 2018
Whilst collaborating with members of the emergency team, the emergency nurse plays a crucial role... more Whilst collaborating with members of the emergency team, the emergency nurse plays a crucial role in the identification and care of patients with medical, surgical and injury related emergencies. In Africa, as well as all over the world, the practice of emergency nursing is extremely challenging. In November 2011, an international emergency nursing workgroup (both academic and clinical) was convened in Cape Town, South Africa, to explore the development of a framework for emergency nursing practice in Africa. The resultant framework has implications for nursing education and training, continuing education, and staffing at both the institutional and regional levels throughout the African continent and possibly further afield.
Journal of Nursing and Health, 2018
Higher education is going through a time of transition, full of challenges. Times call on nursing... more Higher education is going through a time of transition, full of challenges. Times call on nursing educators to facilitate learning in such a way that students are empowered to become future leaders in the profession. Appreciative study is a new educational approach that is used to bring about organizational change in the area of teaching and learning. It is an approach to learning where emphasis is focused on positive aspects of learning rather than on negative aspects. The goal of this article is to clarify how appreciative education is applied in nursing education institutions, including evaluation and feedback practices to increase outputs. Introduction: Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a collective approach to positive (educational) improvements in the institutions. Appreciative Inquiry is a theory, a model of change and a collection of tools and techniques that promote the exploration, dreaming, design and development of a common vision that encourages people within an organization to move towards a mutual destiny. Appreciative Inquiry is a "co-built process that is supported by all those who seek to build opportunities for development and progress focused on the quest for the positive heart." The optimistic essence is found in higher education everywhere people function in ways that improve the learning as well as the mission and purpose of higher education. The optimistic core may serve as the basis for what the organization should do next. The optimistic center for educators may be to aim for educational excellence, which means quality student preparation and training, successful learning results and high-skill students bringing success to the profession. We need to reconsider our approach as educators in order to improve the educational practices and bring about positive change. Conclusion: Appreciative education is motivated by a mutual interest between educators and students to promote learning and view obstacles as growth opportunities. Educators who use appreciative instruction, derived from Appreciative Inquiry, to direct regular evaluation and feedback practices can have a positive effect on student success and the quality of NEI delivered items. The use of appreciative language during evaluation and feedback and the application of the Six-D phases of appreciative education can enhance the internal motivation, creativity and innovation of the students. Appreciative education qualities empower educators to plan and deliver professional nurse practitioners that can provide quality healthcare. Appreciative education is intended to understand the National Department of Health's co-constructed goal of delivering quality care to all South African people.
Critical reflection on practice development From fixers to facilitators: the start to our South African journey
Background: A community of practice was formed to address the research output of academic staff. ... more Background: A community of practice was formed to address the research output of academic staff. The community consisted of five critical care nurses and one midwife who collaboratively agreed to embark on a practice development journey involving 11 intensive care units, to address the issues faced by these nurses and move current workplace culture to person-centred care. Aims and objectives: The aim of this article is to reflect critically on the learning regarding facilitation experienced by the six members of a community of practice who participated as external facilitators during the first practice development school ever to be held in South Africa. The school was attended by 35 internal facilitators from 11 intensive care units in the public and private sectors. Conclusions and implications for practice: The practice development journey has had a profound impact on the external facilitators in their personal and professional capacities. We realised that external facilitation is...
A process to gain access for research in the clinical setting
Applied Nursing Research, 2022
The journal of nursing care, 2021
Higher education is going through a time of transition, full of challenges. Times call on nursing... more Higher education is going through a time of transition, full of challenges. Times call on nursing educators to facilitate learning in such a way that students are empowered to become future leaders in the profession. Appreciative study is a new educational approach that is used to bring about organizational change in the area of teaching and learning. It is an approach to learning where emphasis is focused on positive aspects of learning rather than on negative aspects. The goal of this article is to clarify how appreciative education is applied in nursing education institutions, including evaluation and feedback practices to increase outputs. Introduction: Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a collective approach to positive (educational) improvements in the institutions. Appreciative Inquiry is a theory, a model of change and a collection of tools and techniques that promote the exploration, dreaming, design and development of a common vision that encourages people within an organization to move towards a mutual destiny. Appreciative Inquiry is a "co-built process that is supported by all those who seek to build opportunities for development and progress focused on the quest for the positive heart." The optimistic essence is found in higher education everywhere people function in ways that improve the learning as well as the mission and purpose of higher education. The optimistic core may serve as the basis for what the organization should do next. The optimistic center for educators may be to aim for educational excellence, which means quality student preparation and training, successful learning results and high-skill students bringing success to the profession. We need to reconsider our approach as educators in order to improve the educational practices and bring about positive change. Conclusion: Appreciative education is motivated by a mutual interest between educators and students to promote learning and view obstacles as growth opportunities. Educators who use appreciative instruction, derived from Appreciative Inquiry, to direct regular evaluation and feedback practices can have a positive effect on student success and the quality of NEI delivered items. The use of appreciative language during evaluation and feedback and the application of the Six-D phases of appreciative education can enhance the internal motivation, creativity and innovation of the students. Appreciative education qualities empower educators to plan and deliver professional nurse practitioners that can provide quality healthcare. Appreciative education is intended to understand the National Department of Health's co-constructed goal of delivering quality care to all South African people.
Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2013
Students bridge the theory-practice gap when they apply in practice what they have learned in cla... more Students bridge the theory-practice gap when they apply in practice what they have learned in class. A conceptual framework was developed that can serve as foundation to design for learning transfer at modular level. The framework is based on an adopted and adapted systemic model of transfer of learning, existing learning theories, constructive alignment, and the elements of effective learning opportunities. A convergent consensus-seeking process, which is typical of a qualitative approach, was used for expert review. The final conceptual framework consists of two principles: establishing a community of learning and the primacy of a learning outcome. The four steps entail: 1) activation of existing knowledge; 2) engaging with new information; 3) demonstrating competence; and 4) application in the real world. It is envisaged that by applying the framework educators in health care will design for transfer of learning, resulting in quality of care and optimal patient outcomes.
Journal of nursing and health studies, 2018
Higher education is experiencing a time of change that is rife with challenges. The times call fo... more Higher education is experiencing a time of change that is rife with challenges. The times call for educators in the nursing profession to facilitate learning in a way that students are empowered to become future leaders in the profession. Appreciative inquiry is an emerging educational method that is used to bring about organisational transformation in the teaching and learning arena. It is an approach to learning where emphasis is laid on positive aspects about learning rather than negative aspects. The purpose of this article is to explain how appreciative education is implemented in nursing education institutions including the assessment and feedback practices to enhance outputs.
Journal of Nursing and Health, May 2, 2018
Background: Nurses appear to be disengaged from their work and workplace cultures. A three-year e... more Background: Nurses appear to be disengaged from their work and workplace cultures. A three-year emancipatory practice development research project was done in 11 critical care units in Gauteng, a province in South Africa supported the statement. Existing workplace cultures in five public and six private critical care units were observed for a total of 230 hours. Communication was identified as one of the key challenges that affected teamwork negatively.
Journal of Nursing and Health, May 2, 2018
Promoting a person-centred workplace culture in a public nursing education institution in South Africa by fostering effective teamwork amongst nurse educators
Nurse Education Today, Apr 1, 2021
BACKGROUND Promoting a person-centred workplace culture in organisations is one of the most chall... more BACKGROUND Promoting a person-centred workplace culture in organisations is one of the most challenging tasks for both employers and employees. Person-centred workplace cultures and effective teamwork have been linked to achieving optimal organisational outcomes. AIM We report nurse educators' perceptions of the elements required for effective teamwork to promote a person-centred workplace culture in a public nursing education institution in South Africa. METHODS A consensus meeting with 32 participants, purposively selected from a population of nurse educators and nursing managers. Data were collected during the consensus meeting, which was facilitated by two external nursing education experts. Data were analysed thematically. RESULTS Three main themes emerged during the consensus meeting in relation to effective teamwork. The first theme was positive work relations, with categories of: knowing self and others, respecting self and others and trusting self and others. The second theme that emerged was effective communication with categories of: sharing information, cultural sensitivity and diversity. The third theme was group cohesion with categories of: active participation, adherence to work plan, collective vision of goals and collective decision making. CONCLUSION Positive work relations open the door towards effective teamwork. Effective communication ensures the smooth dissemination of information and feedback to facilitate effective teamwork and in turn promote a person-centred workplace culture.
Southern African Journal of Critical Care, 2021
Death is a medical occurrence that has social, legal, religious and cultural consequences requiri... more Death is a medical occurrence that has social, legal, religious and cultural consequences requiring common clinical standards for its diagnosis and legal regulation. [1] There is no documented case of a person who fulfils the preconditions and criteria for brain death ever subsequently developing any return of brain function. [2,3] Clear medical standards for death certification augment the quality and rigor of death determination. [4-6] Currently there are no clinical guidelines on death determination in South Africa (SA), with clinicians using available international guidelines, which vary markedly and are not always applicable to the SA context. [7-10] The World Federation This open-access article is distributed under Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC 4.0.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde, 2020
Letter by Gopalan et al. on article by Singh and Moodley (Singh JA, Moodley K. Critical care tria... more Letter by Gopalan et al. on article by Singh and Moodley (Singh JA, Moodley K. Critical care triaging in the shadow of COVID-19: Ethics considerations. S Afr Med J 2020;110(5):355-359. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2020.v110i5.14778); and response by Singh and Moodley.
Celebrating International Emergency Week With the Shroompies, a Bottle, and a Candle
Journal of Emergency Nursing, Sep 1, 2013
Patients' experiences of triage in an emergency department: A phenomenographic study
Applied Nursing Research
Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery
nursing is a practice-based profession and it is essential that pre-graduate students are sociali... more nursing is a practice-based profession and it is essential that pre-graduate students are socialised in the clinical learning environment from the beginning of their training. Consequently, clinical accompaniment is regarded as a vital component of a nursing programme to offer the necessary support to pregraduate students. the objective of this study was to explore and describe pregraduate students' view regarding the clinical accompaniment they received as part of the clinical component of the four-year programme. In this study a qualitative, contextual, explorative, descriptive and interpretive research design was used to explore and describe pre-graduate students' views of clinical accompaniment as part of the clinical component of the four-year programme. The findings of the study were based on how students viewed clinical accompaniment and they revealed: inadequate support from nurse educators, lack of resources, inadequate support from registered nurses, and disregard for student status. evaluating the clinical accompaniment of pre-graduate students utilising a positive approach of Appreciative Inquiry (AI), gave students the opportunity to give inputs into the aspect that works well (positive) as well as
Twelve tips for supervisors to move towards person-centered research supervision in health care sciences
Medical Teacher
International Journal of Critical Care, Sep 20, 2022
Acknowledgments: The authors would like to thank other members of the WFCCN working group for the... more Acknowledgments: The authors would like to thank other members of the WFCCN working group for their contribution to informing the WFCCN position statement on Standardization of cardiac arrest/medical emergency call telephone numbers in hospitals and health care facilities-2222 (9 August 2021).
Nursing Education 2020: Appreciative education to enhance quality outputs through assessment andfeedback practices
Journal of Molecular Genetics and Medicine, 2020
Family centered care in the critical care: Voices of family members
Journal of Nursing and Health, May 2, 2018
Lions donandprime;t eat grass...Addressing communication in critical care to enhance teamwork
Journal of Nursing and Health, May 2, 2018
Whilst collaborating with members of the emergency team, the emergency nurse plays a crucial role... more Whilst collaborating with members of the emergency team, the emergency nurse plays a crucial role in the identification and care of patients with medical, surgical and injury related emergencies. In Africa, as well as all over the world, the practice of emergency nursing is extremely challenging. In November 2011, an international emergency nursing workgroup (both academic and clinical) was convened in Cape Town, South Africa, to explore the development of a framework for emergency nursing practice in Africa. The resultant framework has implications for nursing education and training, continuing education, and staffing at both the institutional and regional levels throughout the African continent and possibly further afield.
Journal of Nursing and Health, 2018
Higher education is going through a time of transition, full of challenges. Times call on nursing... more Higher education is going through a time of transition, full of challenges. Times call on nursing educators to facilitate learning in such a way that students are empowered to become future leaders in the profession. Appreciative study is a new educational approach that is used to bring about organizational change in the area of teaching and learning. It is an approach to learning where emphasis is focused on positive aspects of learning rather than on negative aspects. The goal of this article is to clarify how appreciative education is applied in nursing education institutions, including evaluation and feedback practices to increase outputs. Introduction: Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a collective approach to positive (educational) improvements in the institutions. Appreciative Inquiry is a theory, a model of change and a collection of tools and techniques that promote the exploration, dreaming, design and development of a common vision that encourages people within an organization to move towards a mutual destiny. Appreciative Inquiry is a "co-built process that is supported by all those who seek to build opportunities for development and progress focused on the quest for the positive heart." The optimistic essence is found in higher education everywhere people function in ways that improve the learning as well as the mission and purpose of higher education. The optimistic core may serve as the basis for what the organization should do next. The optimistic center for educators may be to aim for educational excellence, which means quality student preparation and training, successful learning results and high-skill students bringing success to the profession. We need to reconsider our approach as educators in order to improve the educational practices and bring about positive change. Conclusion: Appreciative education is motivated by a mutual interest between educators and students to promote learning and view obstacles as growth opportunities. Educators who use appreciative instruction, derived from Appreciative Inquiry, to direct regular evaluation and feedback practices can have a positive effect on student success and the quality of NEI delivered items. The use of appreciative language during evaluation and feedback and the application of the Six-D phases of appreciative education can enhance the internal motivation, creativity and innovation of the students. Appreciative education qualities empower educators to plan and deliver professional nurse practitioners that can provide quality healthcare. Appreciative education is intended to understand the National Department of Health's co-constructed goal of delivering quality care to all South African people.
Critical reflection on practice development From fixers to facilitators: the start to our South African journey
Background: A community of practice was formed to address the research output of academic staff. ... more Background: A community of practice was formed to address the research output of academic staff. The community consisted of five critical care nurses and one midwife who collaboratively agreed to embark on a practice development journey involving 11 intensive care units, to address the issues faced by these nurses and move current workplace culture to person-centred care. Aims and objectives: The aim of this article is to reflect critically on the learning regarding facilitation experienced by the six members of a community of practice who participated as external facilitators during the first practice development school ever to be held in South Africa. The school was attended by 35 internal facilitators from 11 intensive care units in the public and private sectors. Conclusions and implications for practice: The practice development journey has had a profound impact on the external facilitators in their personal and professional capacities. We realised that external facilitation is...
A process to gain access for research in the clinical setting
Applied Nursing Research, 2022