Faculty members from 20 schools of nursing and midwifery attended a week-long continuing education pilot workshop in January at the Phebe School of Nursing, Bong County.
Four members of the FOL Health Team in Liberia did all the planning, and added a fifth expert to help with the teaching. All the instructors are graduates of the Master’s of Science in Nursing Education program at Mother Patern College of Health Sciences in Monrovia, an 18-month program established in 2010. They were taught by nursing educators from the U.S., including FOL Board member Pat McGeorge, who heads FOL’s Health Committee.
All are employed full-time, but are dedicated to address the need for in-service education of faculty members at the schools of nursing and midwifery in Liberia. They volunteered hundreds of hours of their expertise and experience to this project, modeling how a project in Liberia must be developed and run by Liberians to be successful and sustainable.
The Liberia team is completing an evaluation, under the mentoring of Dr. Jim Gray, to provide quantitative and qualitative evidence of its impact. The combined U.S. and Liberia FOL Health Team will develop recommendations to share with the FOL Board about future activities once the COVID-19 threat has passed, as that may change the perspective on priorities that should be addressed.
We will have more details on this project and all the others that you helped us implement in the 2019 Annual Report, which will be released soon.
