closing remarks_nursing midwifery leadership

8/12/2019 Closing Remarks_Nursing Midwifery Leadership

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Highlights of the Day

Over 130 attendees from 5 institutionsrepresenting multiple disciplines at JHU

18 roundtable facilitators from Jhpiego, SON,SPH with a range of specialties and disciplines

Special guests: Debora Bossemeyer, JhpiegoCountry Director-Mozambique and ZambiaSenior Technical Advisor and Expert Trainer,

Lastina Lwatula


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Raising the Flag

87% of global health care workforce are nursesand midwives

Millions of nurses and midwives are the first andonly point of care for entire vulnerablepopulations

Nursing and midwifery leadership is essential inaddressing the HRH crisis


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Take-Home PointsRoundtable 1: Ensuring quality nursing and midwifery education to maximize the

impact of a prepared health care workforce

1. Curriculum design requires backwards planning with performanceoutcomes in mind

2. Current curricula and resources do not necessarily reflect daily work once

in the field

3. We need to find a way to empower students to be responsible for theirown learning

4. Critical thinking, not just memorization for a test is the ultimate goal

5. Take education (including the students) to the community


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Take-Home PointsRoundtable 2: The task shifting agenda: nursing and midwifery

leadership for advanced practice advocacy

1. Having a global standards in Advanced roles that takesinto consideration socio-economic and cultural context ofthe setting (country/region)

2. As a starting point for advocacy for advanced practice,Nurses and Midwives should take the lead and demandthe change they want in their roles work settings

3. Strong representation at regulatory bodies. (IOM reportpushed that nurses work at their highest level ofeducation)


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Take-Home Points

Roundtable 3: Nurses and midwives using mHealth technologiesto alleviate the HRH crisis

1. The ubiquity of mobile phones are making this apossibility

2. It's not just about the digital solutions but also lookingat the ecosystems and how you can strengthen thesesystems

3. Convergence of mobile health applications and mobilemoney applications to help improve the economic statusof communities


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Take-Home Points

Roundtable 4: The impact of nurses and midwives integratingpostpartum family planning services

1. For any family planning method, the rightstakeholders need to be on board = government leaders,

community leaders, religious leaders, patients

2. Gender equity, gender roles, mens role in sexualreproductive health may be different everywhere

3. Respectful maternity care needs to be prioritized


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Take-Home Points

Roundtable 5: Nurses and midwives addressing global gender-based violence

1. Creating safe clinical environments for survivors and forproviders

2. Engaging survivors in developing clinical screening andresponse protocols

3. Integrating GBV in government minimum servicepackage requirements


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Take-Home Points

Roundtable 6: Leveraging your Peace Corps experience to addressthe HRH shortage as a global nursing/midwifery leader

1. 11 Jhpiego RPCVs along with 7 nurses/midwives fromthe community mentored 19 RPCV fellows SON

students

2. >25 countries served from 1990s to present

3. RPCV fellows program >400 graduates since 1991


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Take-Home Points

Roundtable 7: Promoting nurse representation in internationalhealth care governing organizational leadership

1. Develop a specific strategy for taking a place at the tablelearns from other who have been successful

2. MENTORINGnurturing, career advising forleadership roleslinking young professionals withmentors

3. Take riskvolunteer or accept leadership roles - dontwait to be asked


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Take-Home Points

Roundtable 8: In-service training of nurses and midwives: usingbest educational practices for addressing the HRH crisis

1. For effective In-Service Training there is a need to knowyour audience, nursing is an effective work-force that

knows this audience

2. Need systems approach to blend resources, identifylimitations, and collaborate

3. "What your audience needs to know vs what would benice to know"


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Roundtable 9: The GANM and FHWC communities of practice andcoalitions promoting nursing and midwifery as part of the HRH solution

Continue to leverage communities of practice(the GANM) to represent nursing/midwifery

globally

As a group we need to work together to putnurses and midwives in positions of leadership atWHO

There is a strong role for advocacy fornursing/midwifery leadership from the frontlinehealth worker coalition (FHWC)


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The Path Forward

Improve access to and quality of nursing/midwifery education

Prepare more nurses/midwives with educationalprograms that lead to maximum competency

Use innovative approaches to recruiting,educating, deploying and retaining thenursing/midwifery workforce


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Jhpiego and the School of Nursing

Part of the Johns Hopkins family World-class institutions

Leaders in training and education

Nurse-led


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School of Nursing: Leaders inGlobal Health

Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell

Dr. Lori Edwards

Dr. Jason Farley

Dr. Fannie Gaston Johansson

Dr. Nancy Glass

Dr. Joan Kub

Dr. Elizabeth Sloand

Dr. Phyllis Sharps

Dr. Ibby Tanner

Dr. Tener Goodwin Veenema

Dr. Nicole Warren


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Jhpiego: Leaders in Global Health

285 nurses and midwives on staff around the world helpingto build the capacity of other nurses and midwives toprovide health care services to hard-to-reach populations

Chantelle Allen (Country Director, Ghana)

Julia Bluestone

Dbora Bossemeyer (Country Director, Mozambique)

Dr. Catherine Carr

Dr. Cherrie Evans

Leah Hart

Lastina Lwatula

Dr. Peter Johnson


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Next Steps

1. Exploring synergies2. Leveraging existing partnerships

3. Working through the GANM to keep up todays

momentum4. Promoting nursing and midwifery leadership to

contribute to HRH solutions


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Questions


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Thank you!

Please join us for a reception at Jhpiego bussesare waiting outside to take you there!

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