Helping Mothers Survive

An Innovative Approach to Training Frontline Health Workers

Peter Johnson, CNM, PhD, FACNM

Director of Global Learning

The East, Central and Southern African

College of Nursing (ESCACON)

September 2012

Presentation Objectives

Describe the principles underpinning Helping Mothers Survive (HMS) training

Review HMS training materials

Present HMS field validation preliminary findings

Focus on Greatest Causes of Maternal

Mortality

HMS Bleeding after Birth

Key Principles

Training ALL

authorized health

workers

Training that reaches

the periphery

Low-Dose / High-

Frequency training

Shared facilitation of

training

HMS Prioritizes Simulation

HMS Builds Essential

Clinical Decisions

Making Skills

Tri-Colored Action Plan

based on HBB

Flipbook Facilitates Facility-Based Training

Facilitation

Guide

Demystifies

Training

Page from HMS BAB

facilitation guide

Field Validation

Grant from Laerdal Foundation

India, Malawi and Zanzibar

Trainer and Participant Focus Group

Discussions

Pre-Post Training Knowledge Assessment

Post Training Skill Assessment

Kirkpatrick Framework for Training

Evaluation

Preliminary Findings

Significant knowledge transfer

Pretest Posttest

Mean score 76% 89%

Passing 71%

94%

N = 114

Preliminary Findings

Immediate skills acquisition

Country Percent Passed

PPH Prevention Transfer to Higher

Level Care

Uterine

Compression

India 82 88 90

Malawi 83 90 79

Total 83 89 85

Join us Friday Afternoon

We look forward to seeing you at our HMS BAB

dissemination session

HMS BAB materials will be available for

everyone attending

Jhpiego and Laerdal expert facilitators will

demonstrate the use of the MamaNatalie

simulator and BAB training methods

Thank You