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Professional nurses’ perception of the implementation of quality circle programme in a public hospital in the Eastern Cape province

M.M. Mbovane
Curationis | Vol 30, No 1 | a1053 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/curationis.v30i1.1053 | © 2007 M.M. Mbovane | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 28 September 2007 | Published: 28 September 2007

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M.M. Mbovane, Department of Health Studies, University of South Africa, South Africa

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A qualitative research design that is explorative, descriptive and contextual in nature was employed in order to understand and describe the professional nurses’ perception of the implementation of a quality circle programme in a public hospital in the Eastern Cape Province. The data-collection techniques were individual semi-structured interviews and field notes. The sample was drawn from a population of 425 Xhosaspeaking professional nurses employed in this institution. The sample comprised eight (8) professional nurses all of whom volunteered for in-depth individual semistructured interviews. All the respondents answered one question: How do you perceive the implementation of the quality circle programme in your hospital?

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