Medical Mission for the 21st Century
Medical Ministries Network Together for Better Patient Care
Tackling the Critical Shortage of Skilled Nurses in Developing Countries
There is a global shortage of at least 10 million nurses and developing countries are hardest hit. Importantly, we must help them develop more highly skilled and specialty nurses if they are to achieve international standards of patient care.
MBF’s Center for Global Nursing Development (CGND) is a global resource to help expand nursing capacity and build nursing leadership in lesser-resourced countries.
The Center’s volunteers and partners work with mission nursing schools and hospitals on development initiatives like e-learning, continuous education, nursing leadership training, accreditation and research.
Erick graduated from Clive Irvine School of Nursing at Chogoria, Kenya. He now works as an ICU nurse. We asked him what the new dormitory, made possible by the USAID and MBF, will mean to the students at the school.
The new residence hall represents not just an opportunity for students to move out of buildings constructed in the 1920’s, but also marks another step in a multi-year journey toward modernization at the school.
What was meant for evil turned to good for the staff and patients who call Hopital Sainte-Croix (HSC) their hospital. The hijacking of a new generator bound for HSC in Leogane impacted services as nurses administered IVs by flashlight. Patients finally had to be sent away due to the power outage.
But only a couple of days after the news broke, a new generator was procured for the hospital. The fact that it was located, transported, installed and powering the hospital so quickly is nothing short of miraculous.
HSC now has a new primary and even has a secondary generator. And, we have the funds to start expanding their solar power system. A more diversified approach to power sources will help aid the hospital’s sustainability and keep the doors open for patients.
The Mobilizing Medical Missions (M3) Conference is a two-day global health missions conference designed to bring together doctors, nurses, dentists, other healthcare professionals who have a desire to use their skills to meet pressing global health and related community needs.
MBF’s Lisa Alianiello, Director of the CGND, RN, MSN, NNP-BC, PNP-AC and partners from Malawi join a panel to discuss how e-learning helps strengthen the global health workforce.
