Empowering Women and Strengthening Health Systems and Services Through Investing in Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise Lessons from Lower-Income Countries: Workshop Summary (2015) / Chapter Skim
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5 Country Perspectives
5 Country Perspectives
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lower-middle and lower economic status to training schools, and they have become nurses; they have become sustainers of families and sus tainers of communities. -- Julie Fairman The local context plays a strong role in the development of nursing and midwifery enterprise, despite global standards of education, training, and care provision.
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The national strategy to improve the quality of nurses and midwives is reflected in the curricula of the educational programs. Principles of the programs include • Commitment to using evidence-based practices, which includes using the most recent textbooks and designing courses around internationally recognized competencies; • Integration of new practice protocols within the curriculum, which includes bringing students and service providers closer together; • Curriculum update and regular review by the minister for health education every 5 years; and 1 Thissection summarizes information presented by Amal Abu Awad, Palestinian Ministry of Health.
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She also said that due to improvements in internet access, the hospitals' online resources have expanded; for example, hospitals now offer virtual training courses for both students and care providers. Awad stated that the health ministry is also interested in increasing the capacity and quality of the midwifery programs, with campaigns to attract new students.
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There are also post-basic specialty certificate programs, such as pediatric; ear, nose, and throat; occupational; orthopedic; peri-operative; and intensive care nursing. The baccalaureate nursing degree is a 5-year program that usually contains a midwifery component and at times offers elements of public health education.
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This program deploys newly graduated and retired midwives to rural primary health centers often served by community health workers alone. The objective is to augment and improve quality of care provided especially in hard-to-reach communities with limited access to urban or semi-urban health facilities.
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She also employed women from the community to serve as lactation consultants, Fairman remarked, illustrating the potential of a bidirectional dialogue around empowerment. Fairman closed with a brief description of the community health workers movement in the United States, in which women in particular
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DISCUSSION Following the presentations, speakers and participants commented further on the speakers' presentations, particularly regarding the use of community health workers to share tasks. One participant raised the challenge of sustainability that she noticed through her work in Boston; in general, community health workers are intended to create links between health care services and communities.
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