Mestilde Ntinda
School of Nursing & Public Health, Alumni, Namibia
Publications
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Research Article
Undergraduate Nursing Students Knowledge Regarding Grief Counseling at the tertiary institution in Namibia
Author(s): Mestilde Ntinda, Esther Kamenye and Taimi Amakali-Nauiseb*
Aim: The study aimed to assess the knowledge regarding grief counseling amongst the undergraduate degree-nursing students at the tertiary institution in Namibia. Background: Grief counseling is designed to help people cope with the loss of a loved one. The researcher has observed that the undergraduate degree nursing students avoid grief counseling process and only the registered nurses were always left to do it. Method: A quantitative cross- sectional descriptive design was employed. Simple random sampling method was used. Online questionnaires were sent to the undergraduate degree-nursing students using a link and the participants were 78. Results: This study revealed that students are knowledgeable on some aspects of grief counselling. The knowledge gap identified by this study is that.. Read More»