Mentoring to build midwifery and nursing capacity in the Africa region: an integrative review.

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• Personal Author:
  Budin W ; Chhun N ; Deng L ; Kaplogwe NA ; Kibwana M ; Niles P ; Ojemeni MT ; Squires A ; Stafford R ; Theonestina S ; Voeten MJ
• Description:
  The World Health Organizations (WHO) recognizes that building capacity of health care providers as a foundational strategy to achieving and maintaining an optimal and stable supply and distribution of appropriately trained, supported and motivated health workforce that is responsive to locally specific health care needs (WHO Regional Office for Africa, 2006). Ensuring available, accessible, acceptable and high quality health care systems are directly impacted by the ability to train and sustain a healthy and supported workforce. Growing attention in the global health community is focused on developing comprehensive strategies to address the acute healthcare worker shortages in rural and remote areas. One strategy that has the potential to retain senior clinicians while simultaneously recruiting newer clinicians may lie in placing value in developing mentoring and positive supervisory relationships (Nancarrow, Roots, Grace, Moran, & Vanniekerk-Lyons, 2013). In 2006, the African Region was classified as having the one of the most severe health workforce shortages. Rural and remote areas were experiencing the most acute impact of HRH shortages. The WHO called upon Member States in the African Region to undertake practical measures to address the human resources for health (HRH) crisis facing these countries and to take active measures to address this critical health worker shortage (WHO Regional Office for Africa, 2013). Focusing initiatives to recruit and retain clinicians could ensure adequate numbers and quality of health workers, which ultimately ensures universal access to quality health care. ... This integrative review was inspired from a recent midwifery capacity building initiative that emphasized mentorship and supervisory development for midwives and nurses in a rural area of Tanzania (Ojemeni et al., 2017). The program resulted from a partnership between a large research intensive university based in the United States and non-profit with operations in northern Tanzania and management in the US. Expert clinicians and educators, with expertise in global health, were tasked to design and implement a five-day supervision and mentoring workshop for expert midwifery and nursing clinicians at two hospitals in the Lake Zone Region. In an effort to ground program goals and methods in best practices and the evidence, understanding the current understanding and presence of support and mentoring interventions in this region was essential to designing a program based on evidence and local context. This integrative review, conducted prior to program planning, generated findings that informed the design of the mentoring and preceptorship training program, with the broader goal of increasing professional capacity in low resource, maternity care settings in Africa. The results of this review are presented here. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Personnel Occupational Health Pregnancy Safety Staff Development Women
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Nursing; Midwifery; Mentorship; Supervision; Capacity Building; Africa Nurses; Nursing; Medical Services; Health Care Workers; Training; Workforce Development; Women; Pregnancy;
• ISSN:
  2214-1391
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Connecticut ; New Jersey ; New York ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  89-95
• Volume:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065815
• Citation:
  Int J Afr Nurs Sci 2017 Oct; 7:89-95
• Contact Point Address:
  Paulomi Niles, New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing, 433 First Avenue, New York, NY 10010, United States
• Email:
  paulomi.niles@nyu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• Performing Organization:
  Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences
• End Date:
  20270630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4fd342524a72ada1f000fb7d27ad0cefbb167dbbfdd794b91a6722004081585b411e097e9beb7ab64e4701679cfc48e935a92708be4a4c9dec20dddc4b46af3b
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/249555/cdc_249555_DS1.pdf
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