Self‐care is essential, but while professional nurses often pay attention to the health of their patients, they give little heed to their own well‐being. With the current pandemic continuing to negatively affect the world, the need for health professionals to make time for self‐care is imperative. The concept “self‐care” is not a new phenomenon; however, this study strives to show the importance of self‐care practices in the world of nurses and its benefit for the nursing profession. The reality for nurses taking care of themselves will assist them in providing consistent quality care for their patients. A qualitative approach with a descriptive, phenomenological, contextual method was used in this study. Ten professional nurses employed within different primary healthcare clinics were selected through purposeful sampling. Through in‐depth, individual interviews, the professional nurses shared their lived experiences with self‐care practices while being employed within a primary healthcare clinic. The recorded interviews were transcribed verbatim and then analyzed using Colaizzi's method. The findings revealed: Theme 1: Participants experienced internal and external factors that compromised self‐care practices Theme 2: Holistic well‐being and the quality of patient care are compromised by self‐care neglect Theme 3: Participants experienced the need to take responsibility and accountability to promote self‐care practices. Specific recommendations were formulated to facilitate professional nurses' empowerment to practise self‐care as a lifestyle. These specific recommendations focused on reducing the burden of caring for others to the extent that professional nurses working in primary healthcare settings have nothing left for themselves.

Background: Insufficient resources at healthcare clinics pose a serious problem, undermining the quality-of-service delivery and negatively affecting the patients as recipients of care and the staff as providers of care. The shortages often result in extended waiting periods, delayed implementation of nursing interventions, prolonged hospitalisation and the potential of increased nosocomial infections. Objectives: To explore and describe the impact of insufficient resources on the quality-of-service delivery at a primary healthcare clinic in Limpopo. Method: The study followed a qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual design. Participants were selected using purposive sampling. Interviews were conducted until data saturation was reached. The interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed using Tesch’s eight-step method of data analysis. The study was steered by the Donabedian quality-of-care framework. Results: One central theme emerged, namely scarcity of healthcare resources, with three subthemes: (1) the impact of water shortage on the quality-of-service delivery, (2) the impact of staff shortage on the quality-of-service delivery and (3) the impact of medication shortage on the quality-of-service delivery. Conclusion: Insufficient resources negatively affect the quality-of-service delivery in healthcare. The provision of sufficient resources through collective managerial interventions is imperative to develop and implement measures to enhance the quality-of-service delivery. Contribution: This study may create awareness among the leadership about the challenges of the clinic. It may also facilitate the development and implementation of processes to provide the resources required to improve the quality-of-service delivery.

Curationis provides a forum for cutting-edge theories and research models related to the exploration of issues experienced and the best practices of nurses and midwives so as to improve nursing education, nursing administration and community nursing within Africa.

Orientation: Artificial intelligence (AI) is stimulating the generation of knowledge and innovations in healthcare by making machines smart through algorithms to nurture learning and improve resilience in global health systems. Despite these potential benefits, operations managers in a South African public hospital continue to favour manual systems over existing AI technologies within their units. Research purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop a conceptual framework to facilitate the implementation of AI in a public hospital in South Africa. Motivation for the study: A gap was identified, highlighting the need for a conceptual framework that facilitates the successful implementation of AI in a public hospital. The aim is to ensure that operational managers fully embrace the benefits of AI, thereby improving the healthcare system. Research design, approach and method: A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual research design with a phenomenological research approach was adopted. Five phases were followed to develop a conceptual framework. Twelve individual interviews and two focus group interviews were conducted to collect data. Thematic data analysis was applied to extract and identify significant themes. Main findings: Three themes were identified: positive experiences related to AI, management and leadership processes in AI facilitation and challenges related to AI. These themes served as the foundation for the development of a conceptual framework. Practical/managerial implications: There is ambivalence in embracing AI in the units of this public hospital, and it will be addressed by this conceptual framework. Contribution/value-add: The proposed conceptual framework is designed to enable the operational managers in facilitating the implementation of AI in a public hospital setting. It serves as a valuable resource to promote the integration of AI technology in healthcare operations.

Background: The challenges in leadership roles hinder the rendering of quality primary healthcare service in the mines. Mining, the heart of the South African economy, requires good health to its personnel to carry out operations. However, nurse managers, the leaders in a mining primary healthcare setting experience difficulties in their leadership roles.Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore and describe the challenges in leadership roles experienced by nurse managers in a mining primary healthcare setting in South Africa.Method: The study was conducted in a mining primary healthcare setting in West Rand, Gauteng province, South Africa. A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive design that is contextual in nature, using a phenomenological approach, was adopted. Data from nurse managers in the mine were collected and data saturation was reached by the seventh participant. The study followed Giorgi’s four stages of the phenomenological descriptive data analysis. An expert independent coder in qualitative research coded the data, and consensus on the findings was reached with the researcher.Results: Three subthemes emerged from the study: mining management and unions interfere with nurse managers’ leadership roles, incongruent mining primary healthcare policies and communication gap between nurse managers and mining management.Conclusion: The triangulation of nurse managers, mining management and unions requires a collective fusion to directly tackle the challenges in leadership roles in mining primary healthcare.

Background: Nurse managers carry the light of leadership in mining primary healthcare settings (mPHCs). They must ensure that this light shines for their followers to improve the quality of service rendered in primary healthcare. However, the nurse managers in mPHCs are confusing their leadership roles with management roles. The existing policies such as operational management of mPHCs are also not clarifying the leadership roles of nurse managers. Aim: The purpose of this study was to understand the nurse managers' leadership roles in mPHCs. Setting: This study was conducted in mPHCs, situated in Gauteng province, in the West Rand in 2017. Methods: A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual research design was employed in this study. The participants were selected using a non-probability purposive sampling method. Ten participants formed part of the study. To collect data, individual in-depth interviews were conducted. Giorgi's descriptive thematic data analysis was used to analyse data. Measures to ensure trustworthiness and ethical principles were adhered to. Results: Three themes emanated: confusion of leadership roles with management roles, confusion of leadership roles with clinical roles and confusion of leadership roles with resources management roles. Conclusion: The importance of describing nurse managers' leadership roles surfaced from this study to eradicate confusion. Contribution: The nurse managers in mPHCs are now understanding their leadership roles, and that leadership roles, management roles, clinical roles and resources management roles are distinguishable.