Staff Profiles

Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Bioethics - ongoing, Johns Hopkins University, USA

PhD in Nursing, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), USA

MSN (Adult-Gerontology Oncology & Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner), CWRU, USA

MNS (FNP), University of Botswana

BNS, University of Botswana

Dr. Norman Carl Swart, PhD, APRN, a lecturer at the University of Botswana School of Nursing, hails from Mahalapye in Central, Botswana. He earned his PhD and a Master of Science in Nursing (Adult-Gerontology Oncology & Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner) at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. His dissertation was on describing the impact symptom burden has on quality of life, and determining the acceptability and feasibility of routine use of standardized symptom burden assessment instruments on patients undergoing treatment for advanced cancer in Botswana.

Dr. Swart also holds a Master of Nursing Science (Family Nurse Practitioner [FNP]) from the University of Botswana, in Gaborone, Botswana, and a Bachelor of Nursing Science from the same University. 

Dr. Swart is currently completing his Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Bioethics with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. For his post - doctoral work, he is interested in both clinical and research ethics, with a focus on communication (and its ethical implications) about treatment decisions among doctors, nurses, and patients with advanced cancers.

Oncology and Palliative Care Nursing to undergraduate Nursing students

Adult-Gerontology Oncology & Palliative Care for Advance Practice Nurses

Adult-Gerontology acute care nursing & Primary (health) care

Clinical teaching in primary and acute care areas

Clinical and Research Ethics

General Nursing courses such as nursing theories, research, health assessment among others

Clinical research in different patient populations, including people living with HIV and AIDS and cancer patients and other life - limiting illnesses.

Effective palliative care for patients with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses in Botswana.

Symptom and Pain management

Self-management cancer research

Intervention studies aimed to improve the quality of lives of cancer patients and those receiving palliative care

In bioethics, both clinical and research ethics

Oncology and Palliative Care research

Adult-Gerontology based research (acute and primary care)

Any Nursing and health-related research

Clinical and Research Ethics

Swart, N.C., Ferrell, B., Eche, I., & Lazenby, M. (2023). Relationship between Symptom Burden, and Quality of Life in HIV Positive and Negative Cancer Patients in Botswana. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing 27(1), 98-103

Swart, N. C., Zhang, A., & Lazenby, M. (2022). The Acceptability and Feasibility of Routine Use of Validated Cancer Symptom Assessment Instruments Among Patients and Nurses in the Oncology Ward at Princess Marina Hospital, in Gaborone, Botswana. Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing, 24(4), E109-E116.

Maree, J.E., Khutjwe, J., Swart, N.C. & Maree, J.E. Jr. (2021). Cancer Nursing Research Output 2015-2019: A Scoping Review. International Journal of African Nursing Sciences. 15, pp.1000381

Lazenby, M., Sebego, M., Swart, N. C., Lopez, L., & Peterson, K. (2016). Symptom burden and functional dependencies among cancer patients in Botswana suggest a need for palliative care nursing. Cancer Nursing39(1), E29-E38.