By Edwin Beyan | Friends of Liberia-Liberia Health Team Leader
In addition to being a resource-limited country, Liberia also faces the problem of human resource development in areas such as continuing faculty development. One way to mitigate such a problem is to conduct a periodic professional development workshop. Therefore, the Friends of Liberia-Liberia Health (FOL-LHT), a group composed of five nurse educators and one computational biologist, sought and received support from FOL-US and GlobalGiving with the overarching goal of improving the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of nursing and midwifery faculty in providing evidence-based instructions to their students and colleagues. This overarching goal aligns with the Liberian Board for Nursing and Midwifery standards of renewals of licenses based on attending and receiving a certificate from continuing professional development workshop.
The FOL-LHT successfully conducted the five-day workshop in Phebe, Suakoko, BongCounty with 18 nursing/midwifery teaching faculty and a participant from the Liberian Board for Nursing and Midwifery in attendance. In order to maintain the gains and help solidify the nursing and midwifery profession in Liberia, We recommend that another Continuing Professional Development workshop be conducted in January 2022.
Evaluation of the Workshop by participants:
Using the Likert Scale ranging from 5 to 1, with 5 being strongly agree and 1 being strongly disagree, participants were asked to evaluate the following areas: Curriculum development and design, course objectives using the backward design, Evaluating education program Test Analysis, Research Proposal, and Service and Venue.Overall, participants strongly agree or agree that they learned new things and the objectives of the workshop were achieved. Also, participants strongly agreed or agreed that the venue was suitable, training materials were appropriate, times were well managed, workshop was well organized, and food provided was of sufficient amount and good quality (see appendix 5). In closing, participants,and facilitators received reimbursement for transportation and lodging plus daily per diem(see appendix3)
Benefits of the Workshop to the Participants:
Each participant received flash drive uploaded with workshop resource materials plus other instructional and educational resources and links to international nursing organizations such as Global Nursing Leadership Institute (GNLI)/International Council of Nurses (ICN) and Stigma Theta Tau International (STTI). Participants also established communication networks aimed at sharing information pertinent for nursing/midwifery education in Liberia.
Next immediate steps:
Thanks to the support of GlobalGiving and Friends of Liberia donors, the workshops were successful. Plans are also underway to conduct a future workshop arranged for both faculty and clinicians.Monday and Tuesday will be solely faculty and Thursday and Friday will be solely clinicians. In between on Wednesday, there will be combined sessions for both faculty and clinicians to discuss how theory and clinical practice can sufficiently align for the benefit of nursing and midwifery students and by extension, the patients.
Plese enjoy the workshop photos. We have also attached a complete final report outlining details of how the funds were spent. Thank you everyone for your contributions. Any additional donations received will go towards our 2022 project.
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