Date: 2012
WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey
WHO CC UTS attended and presented at the annual APEDNN meeting to discuss emergency and disaster nursing and midwifery care in the Pacific region.
On completion of the meeting and capacity-building workshops, participants:
- Demonstrated knowledge and skills in selected aspects of participatory learning approaches and technical content of at least one of the following emergency/disaster courses, i.e. Psychosocial health and disasters; Epidemiology, Disasters and Emerging Diseases; and Trauma, Triage and Wound Care; Reproductive health and disasters; Infection Control.
- Formulated sub-regional annual action plans for policy and planning, monitoring and evaluation, research, capacity-building, and/or other work, utilising tools for action planning and policy-making and evaluation
The concepts learnt can be applied across the region to ensure when natural disasters occur nurses and midwives are skilled and well prepared to deal with the emergency.