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Increasing the Production of Competent and Qualified Frontline Health Workers in Nigeria

January 2015 by Heather Ross and Rebecca Bailey
Increasing the Production of Competent and Qualified Frontline Health Workers in Nigeria

This case study is part of the interactive ePlatform for the World Health Organization’s guidelines on transforming and scaling up health professionals’ education and training. Findings of a rapid bottlenecks assessment of midwifery, nursing, and health technology schools in Nigeria informed CapacityPlus’s work with federal- and state-level stakeholders to develop a plan to increase the production of certified graduates. This included providing educational resources, training tutors in up-to-date clinical guidelines and computer assisted pedagogy, and supporting students at risk of dropping out through scholarships. This comprehensive support has reduced student drop-out rates and increased pass rates on national certification examinations.

TAGS: Education, Graduates, Health Professional Schools, Health Workers, Midwifery, Nigeria, Nursing, Training

Estimating the Cost of Educating and Training Nurses and Midwives: Balancing Quantity and Quality

January 2015 by Sophie Faye, Rebecca Bailey, Sr. Azeb Admassu, and Yemesrach Adamu
Estimating the Cost of Educating and Training Nurses and Midwives

This case study is part of the interactive ePlatform for the World Health Organization’s guidelines on transforming and scaling up health professionals’ education and training. Knowledge about the cost of educating and training health workers is needed to support education program planning and management and to inform advocacy for increased investment. Ethiopia’s federal ministries of health and education collaborated with CapacityPlus and the Nursing Education Partnership Initiative to conduct a cost analysis of the nursing and midwifery programs at two colleges. The objectives were to estimate the cost of producing a graduate; identify fixed-asset constraints to scaling up the quantity and/or improving quality of graduates; and simulate the new cost per graduate for interventions to increase the quality of graduates.

TAGS: Costing, Education, Health Professional Schools, Health Workers, Midwifery, NEPI, Nursing, Training

Cost of Preservice Education for Health Workers: Balancing Quantity and Quality

October 2014 by Sophie Faye, Rebecca Bailey, Sr. Azeb Admassu, Yemesrach Adamu, Elias Asfaw, Stephen Musau, and Ben Johns
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CapacityPlus, Ethiopia’s federal ministries of health and education, and the Nursing Education Partnership Initiative conducted a retrospective cost assessment of the undergraduate nursing and midwifery programs at University of Gondar College of Medicine and Health Sciences and Arbaminch College of Health Sciences. Presented at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town, South Africa, on October 3, 2014, this poster summarizes the study, which used primary source data to estimate the cost of producing nursing and midwifery graduates, identified constraints in infrastructure and materials affecting the quality of education, and showed the financial impact on the cost per graduate of overcoming some of those constraints.

TAGS: Costing, Ethiopia, Health Workers, Midwifery, Nursing, Preservice Education, Training
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