Background: During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, it is understandable that nurses are working under stressful conditions. A successful use of effective coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic will help nurses to manage stressful conditions.Aim: The objective of this narrative literature review was to explore and describe the coping strategies used by nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.Setting: This study was conducted from all available literature related to the coping strategies used by nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic globally.Methods: A narrative literature review was conducted to answer researchers’ concern of coping strategies used by nurses during COVID-19. The purposive sampling technique was used to select three online databases that were used to search for the relevant literature, namely Google Scholar, Science Direct and African Journals (formerly SAePublications). Search terms used to conduct this study include coping, coping strategies, nurses, nursing and COVID-19 pandemic. This study included English studies focusing on coping strategies used by nurses during COVID-19 published between 2019 and 2021. The study excluded newspaper articles, conference reports and other databases not mentioned in this study.Results: The findings identified the following strategies: use of COVID-19 protective measures, avoidance strategy, social support, faith-based practices, psychological support and management support are used by nurses as coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic.Conclusion: The use of the identified coping strategies by nurses may reduce stress and burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recommendations were made for future research, nursing education and practice.Contribution: This is the first narrative literature review focusing on the coping strategies used by nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings of this narrative literature review provide insight that may be used by nurses of all categories to cope during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: Nursing education institutions have had to change from face-to-face to online learning because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The online learning mode, however, had several challenges.Objectives: To explore and describe recommendations made to address the online learning challenges in nursing education during the COVID-19 pandemic.Method: This study adopted a narrative literature review to achieve its objectives. The search for the relevant literature used Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, African Journal (previously SAePublications), EBSCOhost, EBSCO Discovery Service and Scopus databases.Results: There were four findings identified from the literature search: provision of adequate resources, monitoring of academic dishonesty, provision of technical support and revision of the curriculum.Conclusion: More work in nursing education is necessary to address the challenges of adopting online learning during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. To meet the issues of online learning in nursing education, thorough preparations and safeguards are necessary.Contribution: The outcomes of this study will benefit nursing education by incorporating recommendations from many studies to overcome online learning issues in nursing education during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: Many children and adolescents who need mental health care services in South Africa find it difficult to access these services. The Primary healthcare approach is the foremost strategy adopted by the South African government to improve access to healthcare services in the country. Therefore, integrating child and adolescent mental healthcare services into primary health care should greatly improve children and adolescents’ access to mental healthcare services. Objective: This scoping review aims to explore and describe the status of integrating children and adolescents’ mental health care services into Primary Health Care in South Africa. Methods: This scoping literature review was conducted following Arksey and O’Malley’s framework for conducting scoping reviews. That is, identifying the research question and relevant studies, selecting studies, charting data, and finally collating, summarising, and synthesising the results. The databases used for the literature search were APA PsycINFO, Medline, Sabinet Discover, and Africa-Wide Information. Thematic data analysis was used to qualitatively analyse the findings of the studies reviewed. Results: Six studies were selected for inclusion in this research. The analysis yielded three themes: challenges to integrating child and adolescent mental healthcare services into primary healthcare, the need for healthcare systems to enable integration of child and adolescent mental health services into primary healthcare, and the lack of child and adolescent mental healthcare services. Conclusion: The integration of child and adolescent mental healthcare services into primary healthcare in South Africa is far from realisation. Recommendations are made for practice, education, and research.

Background Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a public health problem that has destroyed the lives of many people worldwide. As it continues to spread, disclosure of HIV status is fundamental to mitigate the spread of virus, expedite various types of support and improve and well-being of people living with HIV (PLWHVA). Disclosure is a process that takes place without coercion, as PLWHVA should do it voluntarily. Various people are disclosing their HIV statuses to their partners for different reasons. Literature revealed the most of PLWHVA disclosed their HIV statuses to their partners in Sub-Sahara Africa. Methods This paper adopted a scoping literature review to achieve the objectives. The following five steps of scoping literature review were the blueprint to guide this paper, namely identifying the research question, identifying the relevant studies, selecting studies, charting data, and finally collating, summarising and reporting the results. Results Two themes and six sub-themes emerged from this review. The first theme was facilitation of support and sub-themes were partner support, emotional support, social support, and financial support. The second theme that emerged from this review was health promotion, and sub-themes were protecting loved ones from being infected and enhances medication adherence. Conclusion The PLWHVA disclosed their HIV statuses for partners to support them through the entire journey of the illness. The support received from the partners included financial support to enable them to travel to the respective facilities to collect medication. In addition, they needed social and emotional support during difficult times.