The 15th ECSACON Biennial Conference in 2022, themed “Nursing and Midwifery around the world: An investment to attain Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),” was about improving healthcare services through knowledge sharing and professional experience.
The Eswatini Ministry of Health Officials and ECSACON leadership during the conference.
The conference covered topics like building a sustainable nursing workforce, lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, digital innovation in healthcare, managing diseases, and preventing workplace violence. It also launched the ECSACON accreditation framework and tools to be distributed across member countries.
Nurses’ perceived stress and quality of life associated with deployment to rural/urban health facilities in Eswatini
High level of work–related stress affect the wellbeing of the nurse adversely, leading to mental health problems, burn-out and poor Quality of Life. Work-related stress is the principal cause of occupational health challenge at Eswatini leading to poor Quality of Life among nurses and poor patient outcomes. In one hospital at Eswatini it was estimated that on average, only half of all nurses were able to do their full duty at any one time and half were unable. The inability of nurses to perform their duties maximally has not been systematically explored in Eswatini.
Sample of 233 nurses of different cadres were selected using multistage-cluster sampling during the conference.
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