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Table 5 Nurse navigating PACK Child with IMCI checklist and RtHB

From: Addressing the quality and scope of paediatric primary care in South Africa: evaluating contextual impacts of the introduction of the Practical Approach to Care Kit for children (PACK Child)

Nurse (N) or Caregiver (CG)

Nurse/caregiver talk

:: Elongated vowel

[] Overlapping talk

(1) Timed pause, (.) less than 1 s.

°° Hearably quieter speech

CAPITALS denotes hearably louder speech

Underlined talk indicates spoken with emphasis

Heh heh denotes laughter

(()) Further information

Use of PACK Child guide, IMCI checklist and RtHB

N

O::kay a::nd uh (.) feeling hot at night? Or during the day?

N writing on IMCI checklist under “Fever” Yes or No

 

(1.0)

 

CG

[No::]

 

N

[No] okay and u::m (.) can I see your hand and the babies hand? °I am going to try to be quick°

N checking ‘Anaemia’ on IMCI checklist

 

(??)

 

N

Okay thank you. An::y (.) what is your HIV status Si:si::? ((Sister in isiXhosa))

N working through IMCI checklist “Consider HIV infection”

CG

[Negative]

 

N

[Your HIV]? Negative

 

CG

Huh

 

N

When, when did you, whe:n did you?

 

CG

You are the one who did la:st month.

 

N

Heh heh heh [heh heh heh] ((Nurse realises she forgot that CG has already taken HIV test))

 

CG

[Heh heh heh] When I come with ((name of child))

 

N

Okay. O::kay. U:H How old is this baby FIRST?

 

CG

She is 2 years three mo:nths

N opens PACK Child to content page

 

(3.0)

N looks at RtHB

N

O::kay, we go to a content page which is u::h page um (2) u::hm 50 for cough and also we go for routine care which is page u:h 14. She is, how old is she now?

N opens PACK Child routine care page to check what she needed to do.

CG

Two:: yea::rs

 

N

Mmm

 

CG

A:nd 3 months

 

N

Two years and thre:e months. Two years is here, we must check the weight.

Let’s see the weight, the weight is 16 and where is he:r card? Is here ((child coughs)). HAIBO ((surprised expression in isiXhosa)) SISI you are coughing ne: ((Afrikaans particle word meaning “isn’t that so” used for emphasis))

N reading from routine care page

N searching for RtHB

CG

Mm

 

N

16 point (.) plot the wei::ght. 16 point 6. She is 2 years a::nd?

N plotting weight in RtHB

CG

Three months.

 

N

And three mo::nths (1) March April May June Ju:ly (2) and is 16 point six (2) hmm (12.0) sixteen (.) which is 16 point 6 (.) Yoh! She is growing very well ne

N showing CG that child is growing well.

  1. Consultation from a Phase 3 PHC facility with a mother and three-year-old girl presenting with a cough she has had for 3 days. The nurse begins the consultation using the IMCI checklist where she documents the cough as the presenting symptom, enquires about the presence of diarrhoea and the caregiver shows the nurse the child’s skin rash. The extract begins after 2 min into the consultation