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New strategies to strengthen clinical accompaniment of nursing students through caring presence
#accompaniment #nursing #students #presence Clinical accompaniment is a vital aspect of nurse education. Dr. Beauty Mkhaliphi is a...
Apr 19, 2024


Another year at Presence: 2021
The year 2021 was full of exciting events. We are thankful to report that some projects were completed, and some new projects were...
Nov 30, 2021


Presence and gender-based violence
Professional nurses providing care to women exposed to gender-based violence need to unlock their own wisdom to support such women in a...
Jul 11, 2021


Advocating for a holistic approach in mental health care for adolescents
Eager to make a difference in nursing science through research, Dr Precious Chibuike Chukwuere speaks about the need for collaboration to...
Jun 9, 2021


Unlocking presence
We were curious about how to cultivate presence in nurses. #presence #nurses Mrs Christelle Oukouomi Noutchie, a psychiatric nursing...
Sep 2, 2020


Presence improves agreement to treatment
Psychiatric patients will more likely adhere to medication treatment if they view nurses as ‘being present’. #adherencetotreatment...
Aug 31, 2020


What limits presence?
In our journey with presence, we were not only curious about what enhances presence, but also about what could limit presence in nursing....
Aug 31, 2020


What do nurses need to become present?
When reading the Self-Transcendence Theory of Pamela Reed, we realised that this mid-range theory has a meaningful application for...
Apr 9, 2020


How the DREAM guidelines can be useful
Presence is a kind of unspoken movement in any given moment between people, in our case, between the nurse and a patient, or between...
Feb 7, 2020


A view on 2019 at Presence
Welcome to our very first newsletter! We have much news to share. #news #presence In this newsletter, read about Presence practices, our...
Nov 30, 2019


A short description of presence
Patients visit healthcare services because they are in need of healing. One core gift that nurses can bring to facilitate healing, is the...
Sep 26, 2019
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