next 100 million jobs nursing - 260SmithWatt 70Neumann 50F.Abed , AI20s.com Fei-Fei Li, Zbee2024-03-29T15:03:02Zhttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/forum/topics/next-100-million-jobs-nursing?commentId=6339278%3AComment%3A16626&feed=yes&xn_auth=noas often great conversations…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2014-10-29:6339278:Comment:208462014-10-29T19:03:03.759Zchris macraehttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p>as often great conversations going at gdhonline -knowledge space of partners in health</p>
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<div id="main_inner" class="toolbar"><p class="first-post">Welcome everyone to the week before the Global Nursing Caucus Annual Conference! The program is packed (see attached) and time will be short, so to maximize discussions GHDonline will host a pre-conference online conversation open to all. And as a reminder to those far from Boston, if interested, you can "attend" the conference virtually from wherever you are. From human rights law, to cardiovascular health, mhealth, accompaniment models and midwifery, we invite everyone to join in on the conversation!<br/><br/>From the GNC:<br/>"The annual conferences are one of the GNC’s most important initiatives. We believe that bringing nurses together in a focused setting to explore new developments, hear from experts in the field, and share our experiences is one of the most powerful and effective ways to expand the horizons of global health nursing.<br/><br/>Theme - Delivering on Our Promises: Tools for Nursing Advocacy in Global Health<br/><br/>You can register for either Friday, Saturday or both days. Please contact <a href="mailto:globalnursingcaucus@gmail.com">globalnursingcaucus@gmail.com</a> with any questions about registration.<br/><br/>University of Massachusetts Boston<br/>Ryan Lounge<br/>100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125<br/><br/>"Our keynote speaker is Nicole Warren PhD, MPH, CNM. Dr. Nicole Warren is an Assistant Professor and a Certified Nurse Midwife at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. She coordinates the Public Health Nursing, Nurse-Midwifery Track at Hopkins which is offered through collaboration with Shenandoah University. Following her Peace Corps Service in Mali, West Africa, she earned her MPH at Johns Hopkins and did her midwifery training and earned her PhD at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focus is on reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa and among migrant women in the US. Nicole has provided care for refugee and immigrant women in the U.S. and was a founding member of the Midwest Network on Female Genital Cutting. Her most recent research projects addressed work force issues among midwives in rural Mali, family planning demand among couples in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the role of HIV+ migrant women as reproductive health educators for their families back home.<br/><br/>Objectives<br/>•Create a dynamic forum and networking opportunity for nurses to discuss global health<br/>•Demonstrate nurses’ contribution to health care advocacy around the world<br/>•Provide opportunities for nurses and other health care colleagues to share performance measurement tools<br/><br/>Friday October 31st: Skill building sessions<br/>12pm – 5pm<br/>Skills in Advocacy with Pat Daoust and Anne Sliney<br/>Creating logic models for program planning and evaluation with Monita Baba Djara and Monica Onyango<br/><br/>Saturday November 1, 2014 <br/>8am – 6pm<br/><br/>If you would like to attend the conference and are located outside the US, please email <a href="mailto:globalnursingcaucus@gmail.com">globalnursingcaucus@gmail.com</a>for a registration form.</p>
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<div class="span9"><h5><a href="http://www.ghdonline.org/users/barbara-waldorf/"> Barbara Waldorf</a></h5>
<div class="reply-date">Replied at 1:27 PM, 25 Oct 2014</div>
<div id="comment_short_17826356"><p>Thank you Maggie for starting this conversation. I am very excited about the upcoming GNC conference as there is going to be multiple opportunities to engage in key conversations on advocacy for everyone who is interested in nursing and public health. We will have presentations and discussions on Ebola and it's impact on health workers; on Challenges & Controversies: Rethinking Roles in Global Nursing, and on creating the future of global nursing. In addition, there will be participants from multiple countries who have direct experience in advocacy, direct care, program planning and evaluation. Friday's program will consist of workshops that will give you the tools for advocacy. There will be multiple opportunities for networking and making connections. <br/>I want to encourage everyone who can, to attend either in person or virtually. <br/>Barbara Waldorf<br/>ED Global Nursing Caucus</p>
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<div class="span9"><h5><a href="http://www.ghdonline.org/users/jeanne-leffers/"> Jeanne Leffers</a></h5>
<div class="reply-date">Replied at 3:00 PM, 25 Oct 2014</div>
<div id="comment_short_17826362"><p>Thank you Maggie and Barbara, I too am excited about the upcoming conference. The last one I attended was a wonderful opportunity to meet other nurses both local and beyond who are concerned about global nursing roles, standards and metrics for measurement. Not only did I learn from the outstanding presentations but was able to network with a great number of nurses with a wide variety of experience and expertise. This year will be particularly exciting when you welcome participants from other countries who can join using the latest technology! Thank you to the planners for all the work involved in preparation for an event such as this. I hope to see a great turnout. Jeanne Leffers</p>
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<div class="span9"><h5><a href="http://www.ghdonline.org/users/maggie-sullivan/"> Maggie Sullivan</a></h5>
<div class="reply-date">Replied at 7:51 AM, 27 Oct 2014</div>
<div id="comment_short_17826390"><p>Thank you, Jeanne, and I look forward to seeing you there. I would like to kick off the week by highlighting a nurse from Mexico. Marina Legorreta will speak about her time living and working as a newly graduated nurse in rural Chiapas, Mexico. Mexico, in addition to other Latin American countries, requires their nurses to complete one year of social service ("pasantia" pronounced pah-sahn-tEEuh) upon graduation and prior to receiving their nursing license. The idea is that rural clinics will have, even if only temporarily, a newly graduated nurse. In reality, and not unlike US professional loan repayment programs, most new grads jockey to remain as close to urban cities/home as possible. The unintended consequence is that many rural clinics remain un/under-staffed. For reasons of race, culture and political history, the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca routinely vie for the ignoble position of "last" in Mexico's statistics for malnutrition, maternal mortality and lack of access to health services. They are the Native American reservations, the Appalacia or the African American communities (take your pick) of Mexico. To be a nurse in these communities is to sign up for hardship. To be a newly-graduated nurse pasante in these communities is more difficult yet. In the Sierra Madre mountain range in rural Chiapas, electricity and running water are not a given; many clinics are not sufficiently stocked with medications or basic supplies; dirt roads, deforestation and rain lead to landslides, making the already difficult-to-access clinics even harder to get to; the clinic may not have physicians, requiring nurses to function beyond their training; regional referral hospitals will be many hours away; and poverty in the communities is ubiquitous. To be an effective nurse in this setting requires fortitude, innovation, resourcefulness and a sense of vocation. It does not take imagination to understand why most nurses (new graduates or otherwise) would shy away from such demands. Marina Legorreta, originally from Guanajuato, graduated from one of Mexico's top universities (Tecnologico de Monterrey) and opted to complete her pasantia in rural Chiapas, in a program supported by Partners In Health's sister organization Companeros en Salud (CES). Marina was CES's first nurse pasante (as opposed to physician pasantes). She will describe her experience and discuss the importance of advocacy, on behalf of patients, rural communities and the profession of nursing. <br/><br/>Questions:<br/>- Is the community/clinic where you work similar to this description?<br/>- Do you think your country's nursing schools should require their new graduates to complete a year of social service in an under-resourced setting?<br/>- How/should nursing schools address the discrepancies in training/education versus practice setting?</p>
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<div class="reply-date">Replied at 10:55 PM, 27 Oct 2014</div>
<div id="comment_short_17826425"><p>I will not be able to attend the conference in person, but am hoping to attend remotely from India, where I will be doing service design research for Merck for Mothers' Project iDeliver. My colleague, Jon Payne, will present our framework for the development of a digital clinical decision support tool and QI program for midwives and skilled birth attendants to make quality improvement in labor wards routine.<br/><br/>We'd love to get feedback:<br/>1. How might a digital clinical decision support tool be used in busy labor wards in low resource settings?<br/>2. What data would be most useful to midwives/nurses on the front lines?<br/>3. Does anyone currently use clinical decision support aids in a labor setting?<br/><br/>See you on Webex!<br/>Robyn</p>
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<div class="reply-date">Replied at 9:46 PM, 28 Oct 2014</div>
<div id="comment_short_17826465"><p>I am looking forward to the conference and am very lucky and honored that Barbara Waldorf is letting me speak with Elizabeth Glaser on cross cultural issues in Global Nursing and the risk to nurses working in the field. I have recently returned from Liberia where I was working in a Ebola treatment Center (ETC) for six weeks. It has been quite a ride returning to the USA! <br/>I am attaching link to the letter I wrote that was published in the NY Times today on the issue of quarantine for returning Health Care Workers.<br/>I am very much looking forward to meeting you all and finding out about all the extraordinary projects that are happening.<br/><br/><a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/opinion/are-ebola-quarantines-necessary.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/opinion/are-ebola-quarantines-necessary.htm...</a><br/><br/>Debbie WIlson</p>
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<div class="span9"><h5><a href="http://www.ghdonline.org/users/maggie-sullivan/"> Maggie Sullivan</a></h5>
<div class="reply-date">Replied at 1:30 PM, 29 Oct 2014</div>
<div id="comment_short_17826504"><p>Debbie, thank you so much for including your powerful post. And I'm eager to hear you present at the conference this weekend. If the NY and NJ decisions were made purely for political grandstanding, I agree that is abhorrent. But how much do you think fear and ignorance had to do with their decisions? I can't imagine putting myself at the risk you and your colleagues did, only to return home to an involuntary confinement. And regarding your upcoming presentation on cross cultural issues in global nursing, and the risk to nurses working in the field, which issues did you find most challenging and/or surprising in Liberia?</p>
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<p>CPR for school <a href="http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/CPRAndECC/CommunityCPRandFirstAid/CPRinSchools/CPR-in-Schools_UCM_453682_SubHomePage.jsp" target="_blank">USA</a> </p>
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<p><a href="http://en.wosp.org.pl/cpr_for_schools" target="_blank">Poland</a> Grand Orchestra</p> tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2014-02-27:6339278:Comment:191042014-02-27T22:53:09.620Zchris macraehttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2773183482?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2773183482?profile=original" width="720" class="align-full"/></a></p> jozefa it was a great pity th…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2014-02-22:6339278:Comment:187832014-02-22T18:08:18.501Zchris macraehttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393011976569_80300">jozefa it was a great pity that our emotional intelligence and open space workshop of 400 people for national health service wasnt approved but it has inspired me to move what I can to make sure that after maths <a href="https://en.khanacademy.org/about/health-competition" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1393011976569_39" name="yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1393011976569_39"><font id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1393011976569_36">nursing becomes the next free…</font></a></p>
<p id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393011976569_80300">jozefa it was a great pity that our emotional intelligence and open space workshop of 400 people for national health service wasnt approved but it has inspired me to move what I can to make sure that after maths <a href="https://en.khanacademy.org/about/health-competition" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1393011976569_39" name="yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1393011976569_39"><font id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1393011976569_36">nursing becomes the next free curriculum</font></a></p>
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<p id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393011976569_80300" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1393011976569_26">especially as 7 years later the east london region had the queen , james bond and the olympics celebrating the great british tradition of nursing at start of olympics 2012- olympics 2014 was rather boring in terms of changing the world but all will be well if we can connect south korea's womens ice skating with monica's superstars give back networks</p>
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<p id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393011976569_80300" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1393011976569_6">1 i was at warsaw youth/peace summit 3 months ago and am trying to connect youth networks of next 2 summits in series - cape town, then atlanta - one of the twin youth towns I network through now that I mainly live in dc</p>
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<p id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393011976569_80300" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1393011976569_14"><span class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393011976569_82590" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393011976569_82787">3 I am working with people at </span><a href="http://www.women4empowerment.org/" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1393011976569_47" name="yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1393011976569_47">www.women4empowerment.org</a> if you see something that interests you there please say- do you still value connections with anyone in Km100 - I have had another 4 really bad experiences of eu summit processes since being thrown out of knowledgeboard for asking too many questions about bluxembourg's polacy of purspoe of it is to replace human jobs</p> Podcast • February 20, 2014…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2014-02-20:6339278:Comment:187822014-02-20T22:13:12.023Zchris macraehttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
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<p><b>Listen: Docs in the Developing World, Thursday 9pm, WBUR </b><br/>This trip to Cuba turned around on an astonishing moment of serendipity. At a bus stop in Havana my colleague Paul McCarthy heard a laugh he recognized from high school in California. "Only Akua Brown laughs like that," he blurted. And Akua Brown it was, the friend he hadn't seen for a decade, now finishing her fourth year at the Latin American Medical School in Havana.</p>
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<p>The organization Partners in Health has been transforming health care in the world’s poorest places for 25 years. Nurses like Pat Daoust who were on the front lines of America's AIDS epidemic have put their wisdom to work overseas. We're talking to doctors and nurses who come back from places like Haiti, Ethiopia and rural Mexico with lessons for our own rich country in a medical crisis of its own. Listen Thursday at 9 for healthcare prescriptions from the developing world.</p>
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<p>The organization Partners in Health has been transforming health care in the world’s poorest places for 25 years. Nurses like Pat Daoust, who were on the front lines of America’s AIDS epidemic, have put their wisdom to work overseas. We’re talking to doctors and nurses who come back from places like Haiti, Ethiopia and rural Mexico with lessons for our own rich country in a medical crisis of its own. Listen Thursday at 9 p.m. for healthcare prescriptions from the developing world.</p>
<h4><strong>We’re calling all doctors, nurses, and patients this week. Our question for you: what do the best American docs learn treating the poorest of the poor in Malawi, or Mexico, that they couldn’t learn in a robotic surgery lab or a million-dollar MRI suite? Call (617) 353-0692 to record a message that we’ll play at the top of the show.</strong></h4>
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<li><strong>Dr. Daniel Palazuelos</strong> is PIH’s chief strategist at its site in Chiapas, Mexico, and directs their efforts to ensure the success of their community-health workers, who are charged with the “accompaniment” of patients.</li>
<li><strong>Pat Daoust </strong>is the chief nursing officer at <a href="http://seedglobalhealth.org/" target="_blank">SEED Global Health</a>, an organization dedicated to training a new generation of health professionals for work in the developing world. Daoust has served as one of the leading figures in HIV/AIDS nursing for decades, first with the AIDS Action Committee, then with the Harvard AIDS Initiative in Botswana and Ethiopia.</li>
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<blockquote><p>There’s an element of mystery, of openness, of trust, in accompaniment. The companion, the<em> accompagnateur</em>, says: “I’ll go with you and support you on your journey wherever it leads; I’ll share your fate for a while. And by ‘a while,’ I don’t mean a little while.” Accompaniment is about sticking with a task until it’s deemed completed, not by the <em>accompagnateur</em> but by the person being accompanied.</p>
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<li>In “<a title="Rachel Zimmerman, "From Haiti to Harvard" | Commonhealth" href="http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2011/03/health-workers-make-housecalls" target="_blank">From Haiti to Harvard</a>,” on WBUR’s own <em>Commonhealth</em> blog, Rachel Zimmerman tells of the difficulties that community health workers in Boston face every day — and of the promise they represent for the American medical establishment.</li>
<li>Our guest, Dr. Daniel Palazuelos, wrote a<a title="Daniel Palazuelos on CHWs | BMJ" href="http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2011/05/06/daniel-palazuelos-on-community-health-workers/" target="_blank"> short piece </a>about the myths and realities surrounding community health workers abroad.</li>
<li>And the <a href="http://gatesletter.com/" target="_blank">2014 annual letter</a> of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation looks forward to the hoped-for end of global poverty as we know it.</li>
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<p>help us list coursera courses freeing cost of training on health rsvp <a href="mailto:chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk">chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk…</a></p>
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<p> interesting collaboration competition of the web connecting nurses <a href="http://www.connecting-nurses.com/web/">http://www.connecting-nurses.com/web/</a>eg winners in 2011 <a href="http://care-challenge.com/en/winners">http://care-challenge.com/en/winners</a> </p>
<p> interesting collaboration competition of the web connecting nurses <a href="http://www.connecting-nurses.com/web/">http://www.connecting-nurses.com/web/</a>eg winners in 2011 <a href="http://care-challenge.com/en/winners">http://care-challenge.com/en/winners</a> </p> here is an extract of reply t…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2013-12-10:6339278:Comment:177472013-12-10T18:44:26.958Zchris macraehttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p>here is an extract of reply the above authors felt compelled to pen after quite aggressive reaction to their article</p>
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<p>Ultimately, it is about doctors, nurses, other health professionals—and increasingly community health workers who have no professional training—working effectively together for the benefit of patients. This work needs to focus on improving public health, promoting health and reducing chronic, non-communicable diseases related to lifestyle (obesity,…</p>
<p>here is an extract of reply the above authors felt compelled to pen after quite aggressive reaction to their article</p>
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<p>Ultimately, it is about doctors, nurses, other health professionals—and increasingly community health workers who have no professional training—working effectively together for the benefit of patients. This work needs to focus on improving public health, promoting health and reducing chronic, non-communicable diseases related to lifestyle (obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, lung cancer) that are spreading rapidly in developing and developed countries (<a href="http://www.sa-lives.com/entry/13/why-nurses-should-be-more-prominent#12">12</a>, <a href="http://www.sa-lives.com/entry/13/why-nurses-should-be-more-prominent#13">13</a>).</p>
<p>As the editor of <em>Scientific American Lives</em> has pointed out, we were not asked to supply references or data; however, there is ample evidence to support all that we highlight in our article. Some of the evidence is summarised in the articles published in the BMJ and in our other references (<a href="http://www.sa-lives.com/entry/13/why-nurses-should-be-more-prominent#1">1</a>, <a href="http://www.sa-lives.com/entry/13/why-nurses-should-be-more-prominent#2">2</a>, <a href="http://www.sa-lives.com/entry/13/why-nurses-should-be-more-prominent#9">9</a>, <a href="http://www.sa-lives.com/entry/13/why-nurses-should-be-more-prominent#16">16</a>).</p>
<p>The Cochrane Library, probably the best repository of evidence on what works in health care, contains many systematic reviews on the effectiveness of nurses in a variety of roles (<a href="http://www.sa-lives.com/entry/13/why-nurses-should-be-more-prominent#14">14</a>); here is the conclusion from just one source:<em>“The findings suggest that appropriately trained nurses can produce as high quality care as primary care doctors and achieve as good health outcomes for patients”</em> (<a href="http://www.sa-lives.com/entry/13/why-nurses-should-be-more-prominent#15">15</a>).</p>
<p>The benefit of provocative articles is the debate that ensues as it invites us all to think more critically about complicated issues. We look forward to the ongoing deliberation and the opportunity to witness demonstrated changes in the ways in which health workers can cooperate to improve global health, particularly given the dearth of resources.</p>
<p>There is a growing global shortage of nurses (<a href="http://www.sa-lives.com/entry/13/why-nurses-should-be-more-prominent#6">16</a>). Pervasive negative comments on the part of doctors toward nurses do not create an environment that is conducive to recruiting sorely needed men and women into the nursing profession. This shortage exacerbates the problem of promoting health and providing adequate care to our ever growing and aging populations in rural and urban regions. (<a href="http://www.sa-lives.com/entry/13/why-nurses-should-be-more-prominent#6">6</a>, <a href="http://www.sa-lives.com/entry/13/why-nurses-should-be-more-prominent#7">7</a>) In turn, we continue to fail the people who need us the most.</p>
<p><em><strong>Carol Baldwin</strong>, Southwest Borderlands Scholar; Director, Center for World Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Arizona State University College of Nursing and Health Innovation </em><br/><em><strong>Dawn Bazarko</strong>, Sr. Vice President, Center for Nursing Advancement, UnitedHealth Group<br/><strong>Christine Hancock, </strong>Director C3 Collaborating for Health and President International Council of Nurses 2001-2005<br/><strong>Richard Smith</strong>, Director, UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Initiative</em></p>
<p>Footnotes: <br/><a name="1"></a><span>1</span> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3y785q8">http://tinyurl.com/3y785q8 </a><br/><a name="2"></a><span>2</span> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3257am9">http://tinyurl.com/3257am9 </a><br/><a name="3"></a><span>3</span> Barrett T, Boeck R, Fusco C, Ghrebrehiwet T, Yan J, Saxena S. Nurses are the key to improving mental health services in low-and middle-income countries. <em>International Nursing Review</em>2009;56:138-141.<br/><a name="4"></a><span>4</span> Ter Bogt NCW, Bmelmans WJE, Beltman FW, Broer J, Miit AJ, Van der Meer K. Preventing Weight Gain: One-year results of a randomized lifestyle intervention. <em>American Journal of Preventive Medicine</em> 2009;37:270-277.<br/><a name="5"></a><span>5</span> Rowen L. The medical team model, the feminization of medicine, and the nurse’s role. <em>Virtual Mentor</em> 2010;12:46-51.<br/><a name="6"></a><span>6</span> Australian Medical Association, 2005. AMA rejects independent nurse practitioners as medical workforce solution. Retrieved 3/15/2010 from <a href="http://222.ama.com.au/node/2098">http://222.ama.com.au/node/2098</a>.<br/><a name="7"></a><span>7</span> Kuehn BM. Doctoral-level programs prepare nurses for expanded roles in care and research.<em>JAMA</em> 2009;302:2075-2078.<br/><a name="8"></a><span>8</span> <a href="http://angrymedic.blogspot.com/2006/10/doctors-vs-nurses-medicines-oldest.html">http://angrymedic.blogspot.com/2006/10/doctors-vs-nurses-medicines-oldest.html </a><br/><a name="9"></a><span>9</span> Pruitt SD, Epping-Jordan JE. Preparing the 21st century global healthcare workforce. <em>BMJ</em>2005;330:637-639.<br/><a name="10"></a><span>10</span> Villenueve MJ. Yes we can! Eliminating health disparities as part of the core business of nursing on a global level. <em>Policy Politics Nurs Prac</em> 2008;9:334-341.<br/><a name="11"></a><span>11</span> Warnecke RB, Oh A, Breen N. et al. Approaching health disparities from a population perspective: The National Institutes of Health Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities. <em>Am J Public Health</em> 2008;98:1608-1615.<br/><a name="12"></a><span>12</span> Daar AS, Nable EG, Pramming SK, Anderson W, Beaudet A, Liu D, Katoch VM, Borysiewicz LK, Glass RI, Bell J. The global alliance for chronic diseases. [Letters] <em>Science</em> 2009;324:1642.<br/><a name="13"></a><span>13</span> Nabel EG, Stevens S, Smith R. Combating chronic disease in developing countries. <em>Lancet</em>2009;373:2004-2006.<br/><a name="14"></a><span>14</span> <a href="http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/index.html">http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/index.html </a><br/><a name="15"></a><span>15</span> Laurant M, Reeves D, Hermens R, Braspenning J, Grol R, Sibbald B. Substitution of doctors by nurses in primary care. <em>Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews</em> 2004, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD001271. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD001271.pub2.<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/o/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD001271/frame.html">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/o/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD001271/frame.html</a><br/><a name="16"></a><span>16</span> Buchan, J. (2002). Global nursing shortages are often a symptom of wider health system or societal ailments. <em>BMJ</em> 2002;324:751-752.</p>
<p><em>Author Bios: <br/><strong>Carol Baldwin</strong> is Southwest Borderlands Scholar and Director, Center for World Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Arizona State University College of Nursing and Health Innovation.<br/><strong>Dawn Bazarko</strong> is Senior Vice President, Center for Nursing Advancement, UnitedHealth Group.<br/><strong>Christine Hancock</strong> is Director of C3 Collaborating for Health (<a href="http://www.c3health.org/">www.c3health.org</a>) and was President, International Council of Nurses 2001-2005.<br/><strong>Richard Smith </strong>is Director, UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Initiative.</em></p> Bravo Barbara , GNC, GHDonli…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2013-12-10:6339278:Comment:179222013-12-10T18:26:26.046Zchris macraehttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p><a href="http://www.ghdonline.org/nursing/discussion/why-nurses-should-be-more-prominent/#reply-10458" target="_blank">Bravo Barbara</a> , GNC, GHDonline, Brigham Womens and Partners in Health</p>
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<p>Last week the Global Nursing Caucus had the launch of our Year of Advocacy. We had a discussion about advocacy, nursing and global health which we will summarize in another post. The next morning, I found this article which articulated many of the issues we were speaking about. It is very provocative and forthright, with a really interesting commentary section at the end in response to all the comments the authors got when the article was first published. I would love to hear what others think about this issue and thoughts about how we advocate for ourselves.<br/><br/></p>
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<p>Healthcare workers are poorly distributed. Africa has 25% of the global disease burden, but only 3% of healthcare resources and 1% of health workers. In contrast, North America has 3% of the disease burden, but 25% of healthcare resources and 30% of health workers.</p>
<p>Of the approximately 60 million health workers, roughly 9 million are doctors and 14 million are nurses and midwives. The ratio of nurses to doctors varies widely: about four to one in many developed countries, but some countries have more doctors than nurses—for example, Pakistan and Mexico. In Africa, however, nurses greatly outnumber doctors. In August 2004, Cross River State in Nigeria reported 72 doctors and 1,037 nurses for 3 million people. The state had one part time obstetrician; the WHO recommended that there should be 120.</p>
<p>Until now, healthcare systems have generally been dominated by hospitals and concerns with the “four Ds”—doctors, disease, drugs and death. Discussions on health have been led by what Nigel Crisp, once chief executive of Britain’s National Health Service (the world’s largest employer of health workers), has called “medico-academic-commercial-governmental” interests. These interests have combined to convince the rich world that it needs more doctors, hospitals, and technical treatments. This strategy worked well in the 19th century.</p>
<p>That was then. This is now. In the rich as well as the poor nations of the world, chronic, non-communicable disease is taking over from infectious disease, and health systems are failing to adapt. Health systems in poorer countries cannot afford to copy the systems that exist in rich countries, and it would be wise not to do so. Organizations like the world’s biggest non-governmental agency, BRAC in Bangladesh, (home web <a href="http://www.brac.net" target="_blank">www.brac.net</a> our sister ning <a href="http://bracnet.ning.com" target="_blank">http://bracnet.ning.com</a> ) for example, emphasizes the importance of community, family, lifestyles, culture, and behavioral and social factors in health, factors that are the foundation of nursing care. And Ethiopia is trying to build a system based on health, not disease.</p>
<p>The advancement of non-communicable diseases in developed and developing countries and the need for professionals who can implement health promotion and intervention strategies lead us to believe that there is a strong case for building health delivery systems led by nurses rather than doctors. There are strong reasons for this. One is the presence of nurses in underserved regions. Most people in low –and middle–income countries live in rural areas; the WHO reports that more than three quarters of doctors are concentrated in cities. Nurses also tend to be concentrated in cities where hospitals are located, but some 40% are based in rural areas.</p>
<p>Well-trained and qualified nurses can give anaesthetics, remove cataracts, and do Caesarean sections. Nurse practitioners who can prescribe provide services akin to general practitioners with an added emphasis on holistic care and promotion of healthy lifestyles. It is common for patients to feel less intimidated and more comfortable communicating with nurses than doctors and thus more willing to disclose their health concerns and needs. Most importantly, nurses are more adept at some patient-centered activities than doctors, particularly following protocols for the treatment of patients with chronic conditions like diabetes, asthma and high blood pressure. Increasingly, healthcare is much more about careful chronic disease management in concert with the patient’s preferences and values, than it is about diagnosis, an area where doctors excel.</p>
<p>The greatest advantages of nurses in leading the way toward global health are subtle. Nurses are more interested in health promotion and disease prevention, whereas 99% of medical education is about diagnosing and treating disease rather than implementing care plans for healthy lifestyles. Nurses tend to be more comfortable working in teams than doctors, who are more individualistic, and some nurses seem to find it easier than doctors to think about systems—leaders in global health require thinking in systems.</p>
<p>Evidence supports the positive impact that nurses, particularly advanced practice nurses, make on quality, affordability and access to care without compromising impacts on patients. In this 2010 International Year of the Nurse, for all the reasons cited, we believe that nurses should take the lead in improving global health.</p> x
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<dd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Application No. 5822</strong></dd>
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<dd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Anita Gagnon</strong></dd>
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<p class="tip-tags mt" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Filed Under:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"/>Food And Water Safety; Infectious Diseases; Women’s and Children’s Health; Global Mental Health; Non-Communicable Diseases; Medical/Health Education Programs</p>
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<p class="body" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Haiti is the number 1 open education partner of paul farmer's partners in health where he has become pivotal to rebuilding the nation's main teaching hospital which had been destroyed in the earthquake. Earlier in the year I chatted with paul and he said that he dreamed of this hospital connecting open source training tools around the world as well as for Haiti. When you look at what <a href="http://www.khanacademy.org" target="_blank">www.khanacademy.org</a> is doing to open source maths training and ask what comes second to maths as knowhow hundreds of millions of youth could celebrate open education around, communal healthcare and nursing practices seems the most vital area. What completes a khan academy type platform is links between 2 main training resources- one of the two is self-assessment tools! chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk</p>
<p class="dateposted meta" style="font-size: 0.8em; color: #999999; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">chris.macrae</strong></p>