Enabling resilience: Shifting the intergenerational career expectations of South Africans challenged by structural disadvantage

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“Safe anaesthesia” for the South African rural obstetric patient in KwaZulu-Natal

Background: The South African National Committee for Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths has shown that anaesthesia-related maternal deaths continue to increase at district hospitals. This has been attributed to substandard anaesthesia care and resuscitation. This study investigated the anaesthesia practices, work circumstances, support structure and access to training by doctors involved in obstetric anaesthesia in KwaZulu-Natal district and regional hospitals.Method: This was an observational study, which included 48 district and regional hospitals offering operative obstetrics in KwaZulu-Natal. Separate questionnaires were given to medical managers and doctors providing obstetric anaesthesia.Results: The authors assessed 254 doctors’ questionnaires.  Ninety-eight per cent were full-time appointments and 75% had been employed for less than five years. Almost all of the doctors routinely used spinal anaesthesia, 96% used uterine displacement and 77% measured blood pressure every 1–2 minutes. Appropriate vasopressors were used by 98% of the doctors to treat post-spinal hypotension. Thirteen per cent (32 of 254) of the doctors “frequently or always”  performed or assisted with surgery after anaesthetising the patient. Only 22% (54 of 248) of the doctors had an anaesthetic-trained nurse as usual assistance. Thirty per cent (35 of 115) of the doctors in the district hospitals reported feeling insecure or having experienced difficulties during general anaesthesia. Nine per cent (22) of the doctors reported not having after-hours supervision and 53% (134 of 253) did not receive any structured training at their base hospitals.Conclusion: The majority of doctors provided safe obstetric anaesthesia according to the indicators used. The unsafe practice of administering anaesthesia and then performing other theatre duties, thus leaving the mother without dedicated medical supervision, must be stopped. Efforts should be made to improve the supervision and support of district hospital doctors. Resources to optimise safe practices need to be improved.Keywords: district and regional hospitals, obstetric anaesthesia, supervision, training opportunitie

Validation of the high performance leadership competencies as measured by an assessment centre in-basket

The original publication is available at http://www.sajip.co.zaCITATION: Spangenberg, H. H. & Theron, C. C. 2003. Validation of the high performance leadership competencies as measured by an assessment centre in-basket. SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 29(2):29-38, doi:10.4102/sajip.v29i2.106.The purpose of this study was to validate Schroder’s High Performance Leadership Competencies (HPLCs), measured by a specially designed In-basket, against multiple criteria. These consisted of six measures of managerial success, representing managerial advancement and salary progress criteria, and a newly developed comprehensive measure of work unit performance, the Performance Index. An environmental dynamism and complexity questionnaire served as moderator variable. Results indicated disappointing predictive validity quotients for the HPLCs as measured by an In-basket, in contrast to satisfactory predictive and construct validity obtained in previous studies by means of a full assessment centre. The implications of the findings are discussed and suggestions are made for improving the validity of the In-basket.Die doel van hierdie studie was die validering van Schroder se Hoëvlak Leierskapsbevoegdhede, gemeet deur ‘n spesiaal ontwerpte Posmandjie, teen veelvoudige kriteria. Dit behels ses metings van bestuursukses wat bestuursbevorderings- en salarisvorderingskriteria insluit, sowel as ‘n nuutontwikkelde, omvattende meting van werkeenheidsprestasie, die Prestasie indeks. ‘n Vraelys wat die dinamika en kompleksiteit van die omgewing meet, het as moderator veranderlike gedien. Resultate dui op teleurstellende geldigheidskwosiënte vir die Hoëvlak Leierskapsbevoegdhede soos gemeet deur ‘n posmandjie, in teenstelling met bevredigende voorspellings- en konstrukgeldigheid wat in vorige studies deur middel van ‘n volle takseersentrum verkry is. Die bevindinge word bespreek en voorstelle word gemaak om die geldigheidskwosiënte te verbeter.https://sajip.co.za/index.php/sajip/article/view/106Publisher's versio

Promoting resilience among Sesotho-speaking adolescent girls: Lessons for South African teachers

Teachers are a crucial part of young people’s social ecologies. Considering that black South African adolescent girls remain the most marginalised group in South Africa, the purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study has been to explore if and how teachers champion resilience among black adolescent girls living in rural contexts of structural adversity. Using Draw-and-Talk and Draw-and-Write methods, 28 Sesotho-speaking adolescent girls from the Free State Province of South Africa generated a total of 68 drawings. The drawings were analysed using inductive content analysis. The findings include teachers actively listen and provide guidance; teachers motivate girls towards positive futures; and teachers initiate teacher-girl partnerships. These findings prompt three strategies to support teachers’ championship of resilience, namely pre-empt support; advocate for a changed education landscape; and communicate constructive messages.Keywords: adolescent girls; resilience; rural; Sesotho-speaking; social ecology; structural adversity; teacher(s

Community-based participatory video: Exploring and advocating for girls’ resilience

Resilience studies typically privilege the views and assumptions of minority-world research. One way to circumvent this is through methodologies that give voice to the experiences of majority-world youth. Our aim in this article is to reflect critically on the use of community-based participatory video (CBPV) to understand and promote resilience processes in 28 black South African adolescent girls. The girls, aged from13 to19 years, were recruited by social workers and teachers collaborating with the South African Pathways to Resilience Project. The findings suggest that CBPV does champion participant-directed understandings of resilience. However, the findings also draw attention to the difficulties of realising the potential of the social change inherent in CBPV, and the complexity of stimulating deep reflection in the girl participants

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In My Dreamy Panama

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