Interprofessional training for the delivery of community health services in Mexico: the experience of Partners in Health

Nígenda, Gustavo; Elliott, Patrick F; Flores, Hugo; Aristizabal, Patricia; Martínez‐Dávalos, A.

doi:10.1080/13561820.2019.1641475

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“…This is a departure from other LEO training experiences because it is deliberately linked with professional development alongside physician interns through CES’s inter-professional curriculum and work model. 19 CES provides clinical supervision, professional development, and organisational support for the LEOs working in the birth centre.…”

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The experience of obstetric nursing students in an innovative maternal care programme in Chiapas, Mexico: a qualitative study

Montaño¹,

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Molina

et al. 2022

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

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In Mexico, over the last decade, more non-physician medical professionals have been participating in birth care according to recent federal regulations. So far, very few sites have been able to implement birth care models where midwives and obstetric nurses participate. We describe the experience of a group of intern obstetric nurses participating in a model that provides respectful birth care to rural populations, managed by an international NGO in partnership with the Ministry of Health of Chiapas, Mexico. We conducted a case study including individual interviews and focus group discussions with obstetric nurse interns participating in the Compañeros En Salud programme over four years from 2016 to 2019. We applied targeted content analysis to the qualitative data. There were 28 participants from 4 groups of interns. Informants expressed their opinions in four areas: (a) training as a LEO, (b) training experience at CES, (c) LEO role in health care delivery; and (d) LEOs' perspectives about respectful maternity care. Interns identified gaps in their training including a higher load of theoretical content vs practical experience, as well as little supervision of clinical care in public hospitals. Their adaptation to the health services model has increased over time, and recent classes acknowledge the difficulties that earlier ones had to confront, including the challenging interactions with hospital staff. Interns have incorporated the value of respectful birth care and their role to protect this right in rural populations. Findings could be useful to call for the expansion of the model in public birth centres.

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confidence: 99%