By providing professional development workshops for nursing/midwifery faculty and practicing nurse/midwife hospital clinicians, we hope to continue improving health care outcomes in Liberia. Faculty share updated skills and knowledge with their colleagues and student populations for a multiplier effect that will reach several hundred soon-to-be health care professionals. Supervisory nurses and midwives will share this new knowledge with their front-line staff producing another multiplier effect.
Maternal mortality in Liberia is 725 deaths per 100,000 and neonatal mortality is 37 deaths per 1000 births (WHO, 2017). Professional development for the renewal of licenses is not mandatory in Liberia, leading to a gap in the provision of quality care. There is a critical shortage of continuing education for practicing nurses, midwives and teaching faculty. Representatives from the Liberian Board for Nursing & Midwifery and the Liberian Nurses' Association will also attend the workshops.
Improving health care in Liberia is a priority for the Friends of Liberia. This 2025 project will provide up to date training, education and skill development for supervisory nurses and midwives, as well as teaching faculty from accredited institutions. By training them to train others in their classes and facilities, quality healthcare will be increased. This project will ensure continuous professional competency as a way of improving health care outcomes in Liberia.
The Liberia Health Team (LHT), with support from FOL-US, Global Health Ministries, and Global Giving conducted two separate workshops for nursing/midwifery faculty and clinicians in January 2024. This was the fifth year that FOL and the LHT has offered such professional development workshops for nursing/midwifery faculty and clinicians. If we estimate that two hundred participants in the five years have shared with just five people, it's easy to see a positive impact on health care outcomes.
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