It has, however, also resulted in a dramatic demographic shift in the nursing and midwifery workforce in which 71 to 93% of nurses and midwives by 2018 were 35 years or younger, as compared with 2.8 to 44% in 2008. In this commentary, we examine how the drastic generational transition...
Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives, 214 Westlands Residential Area, Accra, Ghana Emmanuel Ayire Adongo Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana John Kuumuori Ganle Contributions EAA conceived the study. EAA and JK...
This includes 2.4 million physicians, nurses and midwives. Fifty-seven countries are defined as having a critical shortage of health staff; of these, 36 are in sub-Saharan Africa. Of the total world's health work force of 59.2 million, Africa has only 3% of the world's health workers in...
CVH is the Marie Stopes Ladies Channel Manager at Marie Stopes International, supporting a network of 900 nurses and midwives delivering high quality family planning services across 15 countries. She has a BA in International Development Studies from McGill University and an MSc in Global Health Poli...
In reality, this division is said to be more concerned with managing doctors and nurses, so the midwives and this policy are to some extent falling between two stools. ‘Under ICD or either safe motherhood, there is no champion midwife in either ICD or safe motherhood… maybe they need ...
pressures on the available facilities. In addition to the large number of doctors in the public service, many private practitioners operate their own clinics and hospitals. Registered doctors and dentists are supported by a paramedical staff of nurses, midwives, and pharmacists, as well as by...
Skilled birth attendance is defined as “the availability of health professionals with midwifery skills (doctors, nurses or midwives) to promote utilization, conduct normal deliveries and provide first aid, the enabling environment of health policy and system, drugs, equipment, supplies, and ...
The tutors had mainlybeen trained as midwives (51.4%) and graduate nurses (33.8%). Respondents were predominantly Christians (97.3%).The study discovered that only 18.9% of the tutors knew all the legal indications under which safe abortion carecould be provided. The content of pre-service ...
Skilled birth attendance is defined as “the availability of health professionals with midwifery skills (doctors, nurses or midwives) to promote utilization, conduct normal deliveries and provide first aid, the enabling environment of health policy and system, drugs, equipment, supplies, and ...
The NICU has staff strength of 15 nurses which comprised seven (7) registered general nurses (RGN), three (3) registered midwives (RM), five (5) nurse assistant clinical (NAC), and one (1) paediatrician. The unit is subdivided into two units; a unit where unstable preterm babies who re...