UFS E-Engaged Scholarship Podcasts

In this podcast, Karabo Maina, talks about practicing self compassion as a teacher. Engaged Scholarship Website

Last year was a difficult year, especially for teachers such as yourselves. The pressure to continue to perform and to do your jobs to the best of your abilities was severely impacted by the corona virus. The effects can still be felt across South Africa to this day. Teachers are some of the most important people in South Africa. You are responsible for teaching our next generation and the neurologically impaired children at Lettie Fouche School are some of the most vulnerable members of our society, especially given the COVID 19 context. It is stressful under normal circumstances, but we can only imagine what you have been through the last year and a half. We would like to offer some helpful insight into the stress you have experienced and suggest some simple, fun strategies to help you cope with stress better in the future. You may not always be aware of the amount of stress you experience but we realise how difficult your situation as teachers of vulnerable children has been during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is for this reason that we have put care and love into developing this podcast to provide you with a little bit of extra support. Engaged Scholarship Website

Diego Rex, a psychology masters’ student at the UFS Department of Psychology talks about how students can cope academically during the COVID-19 pandemic. Engaged Scholarship Website

When life gives you lemons, make some lemonade!

Shoki, together with her fellow colleagues Francois and Mpho, psychology masters’ students at the UFS Department of Psychology talks about how students can adjust during the COVID-19 pandemic. Engaged Scholarship Website

Lerato Kokome a fourth year nursing student of the University of Free State talks about post-partum bleeding. Engaged Scholarship Website

Nyalleng Mollo from the University of Free State at the School of Nursing doing fourth year. She talks about the importance of immunisations. Engaged Scholarship Website

Mofumahadi Tsoene talks about the care of the perineum after birth. It is a topic that nurses never focus too much on and women ends up complicating due to lack of information. So my group and I found it so important to educate women more on it to prevent more complications in future. Engaged Scholarship Website

Today we are speaking with Ms Melani T, a student Specialist Midwife from school of nursing at the UFS about the care of the c-section wound. Engaged Scholarship Website

In this podcast we will focus on the treatment of a baby’s bum. A baby’s bum needs to be protected from becoming red and sore. This happens when your baby spends too much time a wet or dirty nappy. The red rash can become much worse and cause open sores on your baby’s bum. A happy baby bum will lead to a happy baby. Engaged Scholarship Website

The first thing that comes to mind when thinking of a new born is the characteristic smell of a baby and their soft skin. Their skin goes through a lot of change after birth and to keep their soft and flawless skin may cause a great deal of stress on mothers or caregivers of babies. It is not uncommon for babies to develop some form of rash or skin irritation during this time of change. The skin is the largest organ of the body and takes 24 months to fully develop (Dove, 2019: Online).

During this radio talk we hope to answer all questions that mothers or caregivers of infants might have with regards to:

What that white layer is my baby is born with and why I should leave it on; how a babies’ skin differs from an adult’s skin & problems that may arise such as nappy rash, the signs and symptoms thereof and how to manage it. Engaged Scholarship Website