An international programme in nursing and midwifery: building capacity for the new millennium

Abstract

Programme participants reported increased capacity to perform their professional roles as a result of their having participated in this programme. More capacity building activities are needed to further enable nursing professionals to meet the demands for health care around the world.

Building midwifery educator capacity in teaching in low and lower-middle income countries. A review of the literature

“…Involving midwifery educators in a community of practice to increase access to information and resources Building midwifery educator capacity in teaching and practice Fullerton et al, 2011;Pons et al, 2002;The RESPOND Project, 2012;Usher et al, 2012;Akiode et al 2010;Turkmani et al 2013;Voetabe et al 2010Evans et al, 2013Johnson et al, 2007;Lacey-Haun and Whitehead, 2009;Parfitt et al, 2008;Sherwood and Liu, 2005; Amaral et al 2012 Girot and Enders, 2004;Mogobe et al, 2009;Wright et al, 2005;Maclean and Forss, 2010;Uys and Middleton, 2011 Fig. 2.…”

“…Communicating using a common language and having access to evidence based resources were important considerations when working in an international or regional partnership (Girot and Enders, 2003;Wright et al, 2005;Mogobe et al, 2009). Strategies were described to facilitate communication prior to the commencement of one collaborative education project including the requirement that all partners were proficient in the English language (or another common language) and the provision of a three month intensive language training for national educators who were not fluent (Wright et al, 2005).…”

“…Three discursive (Girot and Enders, 2003;Wright et al, 2005;Mogobe et al, 2009) and two research papers (Maclean and Forss, 2010;Uys and Middleton, 2011) reported on the development of midwifery educator capacity through the establishment of communities of practice involving national, regional or international collaboration. Alternate terms are used within the papers to describe collaboration or the process of working together to improve the quality of midwifery education including internationalisation and participation.…”

“…Strategies were described to facilitate communication prior to the commencement of one collaborative education project including the requirement that all partners were proficient in the English language (or another common language) and the provision of a three month intensive language training for national educators who were not fluent (Wright et al, 2005). In addition, establishing context specific goals when collaborating between countries was considered important when setting up an international partnership (Wright et al, 2005).…”

“…Strategies were described to facilitate communication prior to the commencement of one collaborative education project including the requirement that all partners were proficient in the English language (or another common language) and the provision of a three month intensive language training for national educators who were not fluent (Wright et al, 2005). In addition, establishing context specific goals when collaborating between countries was considered important when setting up an international partnership (Wright et al, 2005). Culture was acknowledged as having an impact on capacity building and it was emphasised that both parties benefit from knowledge of the others culture and context in order for communication to be effective (Girot and Enders, 2003;Wright et al, 2005;Uys and Middleton, 2011).…”