Online Education Is Launched Today!

 Today, 12 February, Friends of African Nursing and Wellards are launching the first sessions of online education for African Nurses.

Friends of African Nursing education website (hosted by Wellards) will go live! Nurses in Africa will have access to a library of education which has been developed by experts, and created for the African context.

Our Clinical Ambassadors have fed back to us, changes they would like and we have made the education fit what is appropriate, according to their perioperative environment. We have begun with two key safety presentations, one on the surgical count and the other for staff safety on sharps management.

The video has kindly been shared with us by the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, which they have made for their nurse training, the technique for how to do a surgical scrub and put on a gown safely.

The online education adds to the existing face to face delivery of education in the country and FoAN has educated since 2001, more than 1700 nurses in ten African countries. Friends of African Nursing will continue to deliver face to face education but will also add substantially to the online library for the benefit of nursing in Africa, over the coming months and years.

Nurses who wish to undertake the education need some instructions for registration. They should send an email to help@wellards.co.uk and put FOAN in the subject line. They will asked to give a few details about themselves. If they could state email address, First name, Last name, country of residence, hospital or place of work and how they heard about this education website.   Then a log in will be mailed back to them and they can access the education anytime after that using the same log in details.

Kate Woodhead Chair of Trustees said “We are very excited about this development. It will mean that we can extend our reach to nurses ensuring that up to date surgical practice and perioperative education is available for them at the click of a mouse. We are so grateful to everyone at Wellards, who has helped to set this up and will host it for us.”   

Trustees of Friends of African Nursing

 

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