24 May 2013
This week in Melbourne, Australia, MCHIP presented at the International Council of Nurses 25th Quadrennial Congress. ICN’s mission is to “ensure quality nursing care for all and sound health policies globally.” As such, this year’s Congress stressed the importance of the role of nurses in improving access to and equity of health care for communities and individuals.
19 February 2013
pre•cep•tor n.
1. A teacher; an instructor.
2. An expert or specialist, such as a nurse, who gives practical experience and training to a student, especially of medicine or nursing.
25 January 2013
Applying the Standards-Based Management and Recognition (SBM-R) quality improvement approach in Model Maternities and cervical cancer prevention health facilities in Mozambique has been a challenge. The health workers shoulder a heavy workload and there was resistance to implementing a new methodology or approach.
24 January 2013
From 15-17 January, MCHIP staff joined scientists, researchers and policymakers from around the globe at the 2013 Global Maternal Health Conference in Arusha, Tanzania. The conference was co-sponsored by Management and Development for Health, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and the Maternal Health Task Force at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA.
Part of a series of MCHIP Quality of Care tools, these questions capture training and experience of the health worker and then test their knowledge of how to identify, manage and treat common maternal and newborn health complications. It includes a simulated resuscitation with a newborn model to assess newborn resuscitation skills.
Part of a series of MCHIP Quality of Care tools, these structured clinical observation checklists are for use in observation of antenatal care (ANC) consultations and labor and delivery (vaginal deliveries only) at facilities.
Part of a series of MCHIP Quality of Care tools, this document is used to report infrastructure conditions and verify availability and storage conditions of medications, supplies and equipment. It includes a short record review to capture the number of antental care consultations and deliveries at each facility for the last year, based on the health management information system (HMIS) tools (e.g., antenatal care register).
Part of a series of MCHIP Quality of Care tools, this document is used to produce a list of all health workers who provide services to mothers and newborns at the facility where observations will occur. It also captures medical qualifications of the staff and assigns individual code for each health worker for use in the survey.
A series of MCHIP health facility surveys on quality of care (QoC) focus on the frequency and quality of interventions that address the direct causes of maternal and newborn deaths, and act as key sources of information for policymakers and other stakeholders in country. This document provides information on the background, study objectives, and methodology of these surveys.
An article in the journal "Midwifery" evaluates the impact of a quality improvement initiative in Malawi on reproductive health service quality and related outcomes. Results from the study indicate that PQI is an effective way to improve the quality of health services in a low-resource setting.
To read the article, click here.
