Capacity Building for Nurses Midwives in Africa
This community’s purpose is to develop clinical master’s programmes in African countries where post-graduate nursing and midwifery education is currently not available.
The approach is for a consortium of universities with solid experience in post-graduate nursing education to work with a host university who wants to develop a master’s programme. Experienced nurse-academics from the consortium visit the host university to do a situation analysis of the clinical and academic resources, and together with the host university and other stakeholders, decide on which clinical specialty area the master’s programme will focus. Having made that decision, a macro-curriculum is developed, and the host university launches it through its own university structures. The consortium partners find lecturers willing and able to develop the micro-curriculum and to go to the host university for period of two weeks to teach each module. The consortium universities assist with the first offering of the programme, and the host university then takes over the teaching and maintains the programme.
Progress thus far:
Programmes in Moi and Barraton are in the second and final year of teaching.
Teaching at Nairobi, Dar-es-Salaam and Lubumbashi will commence in November 2007.
Initial visits to Rwanda and Niger are underway.
The project is funded through grants from different foundations and institutions.
The consortium of universities who are assisting in building these programmes are:
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: South Africa |
- North West University (NWU)
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: South Africa |
- University of Pretoria (UP)
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: South Africa |
- University of South Africa (UNISA)
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: South Africa |
- University of the Free State (UFS)
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: South Africa |
- University of Botswana, Dept of Nursing Education
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: Botswana |
- University of the Witwatersrand (WITS)
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: South Africa |
The host universities where clinical Masters programmes are being developed are:
- Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences (Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania): master's in Critical Care and Trauma Nursing
- University of Nairobi (Kenya): master's in Critical Care and Trauma Nursing
- MOI University (Eldoret, Kenya): master's in Maternal and Child Health
- University of East Africa (Baraton, Kenya): master's in Community Health Nursing
- Moumouni University (Nyami, Niger): master's in Adult Nursing
- Superior Institute of Technology of Lubumbashi (Democratic Republic of the Congo): master's in Maternal and Child Health
- Kigali Institute for Health (Kigali, Rwanda): Choice of degree not done yet.
For more information, including ways in which you can become involved, visit the website at http://chs.ukzn.ac.za/Introduction5785.aspx