NEPI – Innovations in Education and Training

Too Few Health Workers

Infrastructure

KeyNEPINEPI Education InterventionsActivities and Achievements

Partnership

CurriculumInfrastructure Faculty

In-service TrainingClinical Skills

Infrastructure

NEPI Education InnovationsCompetency based curriculum

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Job tasks

2. Competency framework

3. Competency based

curriculum & simulation

Innovations – new courses

• DRC Advanced Diploma in Nursing

• Lesotho Post-basic Diploma in Midwifery

BSc in Nursing and Midwifery

• Zambia Diploma in Comprehensive Nursing and Midwifery

Innovations

• Shortened the duration of training

Clinical Skills Simulation Labs

• Address theory to practice gap

• Enable development of competence, confidence and clinical judgement in a controlled, safe environment

E - learning

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Interactive case studies

What this has achieved…

• NEPI has increased the nurse – midwife workforce – effectively combating maternal and infant mortality and HIV/AIDS and communicable diseases which have decimated populations in Africa

• Increased students clinical skills and competencies through construction, renovation and refurbishment of clinical simulation laboratories

• Strengthening nurse – led teaching and learning models – NIMART

• Supporting nursing policy environment which impacts nursing education and training through partnerships with various stakeholders

• Health workforce retention – innovative training in rural, hard – to reach areas

• Task – shifting – nurses taking on some physician roles and community health workers taking on some nurses roles

• Multidisciplinary teaching and learning with other cadres – doctors, pharmacists and medical laboratory technologists

• Strengthening the participation of African nurses and midwives to participate in south – to south exchange and learning

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