Description: This course focused on the delivery of anesthesia to infants and children, management of anesthetic complications, pain management, trauma, specialized care of sick children, and newborn resuscitation and anesthesia. The Association of Anesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI) designed the course methodology for use in low-income countries based on small group workshop-style teaching sessions supplemented by only a few large group lectures.  Through the Safer Anesthesia From Education (SAFE) courses, anesthesia providers from low-income countries can improve on their delivery of anesthesia, management of anesthetic complications, pain management, trauma, specialized care of obstetric and pediatric patients, and newborn resuscitation and anesthesia. Facilitators base SAFE courses primarily on small group workshop-style teaching sessions supplemented by only a few large group lectures.

Each course includes: 3 days of training in pediatric anesthesia and critical care. Some courses include a fourth day, for selected participants, that focuses on equipping them to train others ( see course catalog for SAFE Peds 2 – Training of trainers.

Training Components/ attributes/methods:

_ 100% self-paced study
_ mentored
_ online
√ in person
√ small groups
_ projects
_ wet lab
√ simulation
√ case study
_ webinar
_ onboard a Mercy Ship
√ local venue or hospital
√ offered free of charge
√ accredited

Course Goals: Impartation of anesthesia and critical care knowledge and skills to pediatric healthcare professionals to affect transformational development.  Selected participants in the training-of-trainers portion will receive the skills and equipment to train others in the course material.

Sessions:

Day 1: Focus was on basic pediatric anesthesia principles for preoperative procedures, in addition to medication calculations, and fluid maintenance. Also included this day was airway management including anesthetic plans and extubation, and pain management, assessment, and treatment.

Day 2: This day focused on special considerations in pediatric anesthesia safety, recognizing a sick child, pediatric resuscitation and understanding laparotomies. Specific topics included ENT, cleft palate and eye surgeries, plus dealing with  children affected with sickle cell, seizures, cardiac disease and other airway emergencies. Likewise, facilitators discussed topics in resuscitation including intraosseous access and treatment and management of laparotomies.

Day 3: Topics discussed this day are trauma in children and newborn resuscitation. This included trauma assessment, shock, head injuries and trauma transport. Also discussed was the treatment and care of burns including managing difficult airways in burn patients. Finally, this day included neonatal care specifically newborn resuscitation, imperforate anus and pyloric stenosis.

Day 4: SAFE ToT builds local SAFE training capacity through a one-day course to develop the teaching skills of clinical educators.

Presented by: Mercy Ships team partnering with Association of Anesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI)

Audience: This training is aimed at Anesthetic doctors and nurse anesthetists who are responsible for anesthesia and critical care of pediatric patients.

Selection Process: Day 1-3 participants selected by Mercy Ships in cooperation with Ministry of Health. Based on participant’s performance, availability and desire to teach, course facilitators select the participants for the Training-of-Trainers portion of the course held on Day 4.

Requisites:

• Fluent in French
• Currently working in Anesthesia/Pediatrics

Endorsements:

“Back in my hospital I’m planning on setting up an emergency cart in the recovery room and reorganize the newborn corner” Anesthesia Nurse M.M. from Thies, Senegal

“‘I motivated and encouraged to pass on the knowledge to my colleagues.” Pediatrician Dr. F.B. from Dakar, Senegal

“In the Training of Trainers course I’ve learned how to lead a discussion, create a presentation, teach certain skills as well as the four-step approach.” Leading Anesthesia Technician U.M. from Fatick, Senegal

Assessment: pre and post course test and skills evaluation

Participant hours: 3 full days, possibly another full day for ToT

Credits:  Mercy Ships/AAGBI Certificate/ CPD credit possible

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Schedule:

Date: June 7-9, 2022

Location: Dakar, Senegal

Language: French

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Description: In Part 1, This course focused on the delivery of anesthesia to infants and children, management of anesthetic complications, pain management, trauma, specialized care of sick children, and newborn resuscitation and anesthesia.  Part 2 is designed to equip selected healthcare professionals, who have completed part 1, with teaching skills to help them train others. It is presented in a traditional classroom setting and includes case scenario discussions.

Training Components/ attributes/methods:

_ 100% self-paced study

_ mentored

_ online

√ in person

√ small groups

_ projects

_ wet lab

√ simulation

√ case study

_ webinar

_ onboard a Mercy Ship

√ local venue or hospital

 √ offered free of charge

√ accredited

 Course Goals: Impartation of knowledge and skills train others in the Part 1 course material.

Sessions:

• Giving a lecture
• Teaching a skills station
• Leading a discussion
• Leading a scenario
• Scenario demonstration
• Logistical considerations and obstacles

Presented by: Mercy Ships team partnering with Association of Anesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI)

Audience: This training is aimed at Anesthetic doctors and nurse anesthetists who are interested in teaching and have attended Part 1.

Selection Process: Selected by Mercy Ships in cooperation with Ministry of Health based on participant’s performance, availability and desire to teach.

Requisites:

• Fluent in language course is being presented in (see schedule)
• Currently working in Anesthesia/Pediatrics
• Has successfully completed Part 1 “SAFE Pediatric Anesthesia” Course

Endorsements:

“Back in my hospital I’m planning on setting up an emergency cart in the recovery room and reorganize the newborn corner” Anesthesia Nurse M.M. from Thies, Senegal

“In the Training of Trainers course I’ve learned how to lead a discussion, create a presentation, teach certain skills as well as the four-step approach.” Leading Anesthesia Technician U.M. from Fatick, Senegal

“‘I motivated and encouraged to pass on the knowledge to my colleagues.” Pediatrician Dr. F.B. from Dakar, Senegal

Assessment: None

Participant hours: 1 day of Training of Trainers

Credits:  Mercy Ships/AAGBI Certificate/ CPD credit possible

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Schedule:

Date: June 10, 2022

Location: Dakar, Senegal

Language: French

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Description: The SAFE Obstetric Anesthesia Course focuses on the delivery of obstetric anesthesia as well as managing critical complications arising in obstetric surgery and birth. The course used proven methods and lessons adopted from SAFE courses developed by the Association of Anesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI). Modules were clinically relevant and address the core and extended parts of the anesthetic practitioner.  Each course includes: 3 days of training in obstetric anesthesia and critical care and a fourth day, for selected participants, that focuses on equipping them to train others (see course catalog for Safe Obstetric Anesthesia 2 – training of trainers).

Training Components/ attributes/methods:

_ 100% self-paced study
_ mentored
_ online
√ in person
√ small groups
_ projects
_ wet lab
√ simulation
√ case study
_ webinar
_ onboard a Mercy Ship
√ local venue or hospital
√ offered free of charge
√ accredited

Course Goals: Impartation of anesthesia and critical care knowledge and skills to obstetric healthcare professionals to affect transformational development.  Selected participants in the training-of-trainers portion will receive the skills and equipment to train others in the course material.

Sessions:

Day 1: Focus on the airway and general anesthesia with an attention to airway management and assessment, rapid sequence induction, and extubation. The course focused on difficult airways including challenging and failed intubation, cricothyroidotomy, and recovery and post-op analgesia. General anesthesia sessions addressed assessment and preparation of general anesthesia.

Day 2: Emphasis on spinal anesthesia, critical care, and resuscitation. Specific topics included anatomy, failed and difficult spinals, hypotension, neurological complications, the physiology of pregnancy, identification of sick obstetric patients, maternal CPR, and sepsis/HIV, among other topics.

Day 3: Key topics discussed include management of pre-eclampsia, hemorrhage control, and response to specific obstetric emergencies.  These emergency topics include, but were not limited to, ruptured uterus, ectopic pregnancy, cord prolapse, uterine inversion, and other situations involving disease or illness of the mother (anemia, HIV, malaria, cardiac disease).

Presented by: Mercy Ships team partnering with Association of Anesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI)

Audience: This training is aimed at Anesthetic doctors and nurse anesthetists who are responsible for anesthesia and critical care of obstetric patients.

Midwives and obstetricians are eligible to attend Day 2 and Day 3 of the training

Selection Process: Day 1-3 participants selected by Mercy Ships in cooperation with Ministry of Health.

Requisites:

• Fluent in language being presented in (see schedule)
• Currently working in Anesthesia/Obstetrics

Endorsements:

“In the future I want to improve the team work in our hospital, establishing protocols and do simulation workshops.” – Anesthetist Dr. M.S. Ziguinchor, Senegal

Assessment: pre and post course test and skills evaluation

Participant hours:

3 full days, possibly another full day for ToT

Credits:  Mercy Ships/AAGBI Certificate/ CPD credit possible

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Schedule:

2022

Date: May 31- June 2

Location: Dakar, Senegal

Language: French

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Description: SAFE Obstetric Anesthesia Part 1 addressed the role of the anesthesia provider in obstetric emergencies, the major causes of maternal mortality, obstetric anesthesia and its complications and newborn resuscitation. Part 2 of the SAFE Obstetric Anesthesia course is designed to equip selected healthcare professionals, who have completed part 1, with teaching skills to help them train others. It is presented in a traditional classroom setting and includes case scenario discussions.

Training Components/ attributes/methods:

_ 100% self-paced study
_ mentored
_ online
√ in person
√ small groups
_ projects
_ wet lab
√ simulation
√ case study
_ webinar
_ onboard a Mercy Ship
√ local venue or hospital
√ offered free of charge
√ accredited

Course Goals: Impartation of knowledge and skills needed to train others in the course material

Sessions:

• Giving a lecture
• Teaching a skills station
• Leading a discussion
• Leading a scenario
• Scenario demonstration
• Logistical considerations and obstacles

Presented by: Mercy Ships team partnering with Association of Anesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI)

Audience: This training is aimed at Anesthetic doctors and nurse anesthetists who are interested in teaching and have attended Part 1.

Selection Process: Selected by Mercy Ships in cooperation with Ministry of Health based on participant’s performance, availability and desire to teach.

Requisites:

• Fluent in the language the course is being presented in ( see schedule)
• Currently working in Anesthesia/Obstetrics
• Have successfully completed “SAFE Obstetric Anesthesia part 1” Course

Endorsements:

“In the future I want to improve the team work in our hospital, establishing protocols and do simulation workshops.” – Anesthetist Dr. M.S. Ziguinchor, Senegal

“I want to make the WHO Checklist accessible at the OR for the whole team, share new protocols and get more practice in resuscitation by applying the ABCDE method” – Anesthesia-Reanimation Technician F.D. from Kaolack, Senegal

Assessment: None

Participant hours: 1 day of Training of Trainers

Credits:  Mercy Ships/AAGBI Certificate/ CPD credit possible

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Schedule:

Date: June 3, 2022

Location: Dakar, Senegal

Language: French

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Description:

Quality mentoring relationships have a tremendous impact on healthcare providers and the success of medical capacity building efforts in our host nations. We are pleased to invite experienced healthcare professionals keen to share their expertise to invest in the professional growth of a host nation colleague/s.  Together, we can make a difference in the lives and professional development of healthcare providers and in turn help build the medical capacity of nations.

This course is designed to help you to engage in quality mentoring relationships and become excellent conduits not only for professional skills transfer, but also inspire you to see healthcare in the context of God’s big plan and grow in the ability to serve others with God’s heart, the genuine heart of healthcare.

Training components:

_ 100% self-paced study
√ mentored
√ online
_ in person
√ small groups
_ projects
_ wet lab
_ simulation
√ case study
√ webinar
_ onboard a Mercy Ship
_ onsite/local hospital
√ offered free of charge
√ accredited: Mercy Ships certificate

Course goals:

1. To introduce new paradigms in healthcare learning and success.
2. To see healthcare in the context of God’s heart
3. To develop skills in mentoring and facilitation.
4. To develop skills in encouragement and transformative techniques.

Sessions: content is divided into four parts over an 8 week course

Week 1: Introduction and overview

Week 2: Understanding how we learn Part 1: what is dialogue learning and critical thinking development

Week 3: Understanding how we learn Part 2: setting the stage for mentoring relationships and personal investment

Week 4: Understanding and eliminating roadblocks to learning

Week 5: Understanding and communicating new paradigms for healthcare Part 1: what is the “new creation” paradigm for healthcare and how does it relate to sanctity of life

Week 6: Understanding and communicating new paradigms for healthcare Part 2: quality of care and difficult conversations about working in limited resource environments

Week 7: Developing specific strategies for engagement with those you are mentoring: the mentoring cycle of pre-course connection, intra-course availability, and post-course follow-up

Week 8: How to evaluate learner progress, course wrap up

Presented by: Glenn Strauss, M.D.

Audience:

Surgeons and perioperative healthcare professions who are keen to share their expertise with host nation colleagues and desire participation in the Heart of Healthcare mentoring program.

Selection Process:

 Participants are selected based on subject matter expertise in their field and interest in making a positive difference in a host nation colleague’s life through mentoring. An interview is required to ensure all participants are comfortable with course participation requirements and mentoring roles to follow. Please complete interest form below for consideration.

Requisites:

• reliable internet connection (ability to participate in live Zoom meetings with audio and video)
• fluency in English
• appropriate medical licensure
• prior Mercy Ships or developing nation experience preferred
• adequate time to commit to attendance of all course sessions

Endorsements: none

Assessment:

All participants will be required to complete a pre and post course questionnaire.

Participant hours:

This 8 week course requires1.5 hrs of online meetings per week, 0.5 hrs of peer group interaction. 1 to 2 hrs of reading per week is recommended but not required.

Credits:  Mercy Ships Certificate (CME credit may not be available at the time of the course)

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Schedule:

2022

Dates:

July 05 – Aug 23 Tues at 18:00 – 19:00 GMT

Sept 21 – Nov 09 Wed at 14:00 – 15:00 GMT

Location: online

Language: English

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Description:

This course will provide nurses with tools to safely and respectfully mobilize perioperative patients during any prolonged hospitalization. It encourages safe nursing practices and introduces patient Activities of Daily Living to aid in the prevention of unnecessary loss of function due to contractures, bedsores, breathlessness and loss of muscle strength and fitness.

Training Components/ attributes/methods:

_ 100% self-paced study
√ mentored
√ online
_ in person
√ small groups
_ projects
_ wet lab
_ simulation
√ case study
_ webinar
_ onboard a Mercy Ship
_ onsite/local hospital
√ offered free of charge
_ accredited

Course Goals:

1. The nurse understands which physical disorders and limitations and psychosocial problems hinders the patient to do Activities of Daily Living and get out of bed.
2. The nurse is able to formulate (smart) goals together with the patient, which enable the patient to do Activities of Daily Living and get out of bed with or without walking devices.
3. The nurse is able to draw up a nursing care plan together with the patient based on these goals, including the right exercises and the number of repetitions needed to achieve the goal.
4. The nurse is able to reassure and motivate the patient to get out of bed and perform the exercises in the nursing care plan daily.
5. The nurse is able to involve present family as much as possible in the implementation of the nursing care plan.
6. The nurse is able to teach the exercises to the patient in the correct way and to perform the passive actions properly.

Sessions:

1. Orientation
2. Importance of mobilizing bedridden perioperative patients and prevention of physical complaints of nurses by using proper principles of body mechanicals.
3. Mobilizing of ankle, knee and hip and strengthening of the legs, glutes and abdominal muscles, perioperative.
4. Mobilizing and strengthening the upper extremity and upper back, perioperative. Ambulation with walking devices.
5. How to set SMART- goals and create a nursing care plan. Anatomy and function of the lungs.
6. Breathing exercises, perioperative.
7. Bedsores and psycho-social obstructions
8. Problem solving – discussions on problems participants face in practice

Presented by:

Karin de Haan

• Physiotherapist from the Netherlands
• Bachelor degree Physiotherapy
• Specialized in Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation and Peripartum Pelvic Pain
• Elder in the Free Evangelical Church

With a panel of expert international mentors

Audience:

Nurses

Selection Process:

Please submit online interest/registration form

Requisites:

• Device and Internet connection capable of participation in Zoom meetings with audio and video
• WhatsApp
• Time commitment of at least 4 hours/week
• Practice partner

Endorsements:

What prior participants have to say:

• “This course has made me see the need to assist patients who are bedridden by putting in more time in caring for them. And also, has inspired and served as motivation to my profession. I now realized that physiotherapy is as well important as medication. Meanwhile, bedridden patients mostly need encouragement and assistance to begin to do things on their own.”

• “This course has added value to my profession by the way I’m applying various physiotherapy skills in assisting bedridden patients to do daily activities independently. I’m encouraging my colleagues to do like wise in order to reduce the patient time spent in the facility and bills.”

• “It has changed the way of my work in my profession in that , I now have time allocated for exercising my patients.”
• “Just realized that simple consistent exercises can contribute greatly to the recovery of patients. Limiting hospital stay, cost and infection”

Assessment:

pre and post course survey about personal milestones and attitude and beliefs in relation to mobilizing inpatients. Optional a report with SMART- goals and a nursing care plan.

Participant hours:

At least 4 hours/week and 32 hours for the whole course.

Credits:

Mercy Ships Certificate for participation or Mercy Ships Certificate of Honor.

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Schedule:

2022

Dates: April 19 – June 7 Tuesdays 17:30 – 19:00 GMT

Location: Online

Language: English

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Description: The Essential Surgical Skills Course covers many aspects of surgical care, and always starts with the foundations of good surgical practice which includes basic hygiene, hand-washing and gloving, before moving through knots, suturing, tendon repair, laparotomy, bowel anastomosis and vascular repair.

Note:

A follow -up course, Essential Surgical Skills 2 – Training of Trainers is occasionally offered to selected ESS1 participants interested in teaching, see Essential Surgical Skills 2 – Training of Trainers in our course catalog for more information and schedule.

Training Components/ attributes/methods:

_ 100% self-paced study
_ mentored
_ online
√ in person
√ small groups
_ projects
_ wet lab
√ simulation
_ case study
_ webinar
_ onboard a Mercy Ship
√ local venue or hospital
√ offered free of charge
√ accredited

Course Goals: Impartation of knowledge and essential skills to local surgeons and surgical residents

Sessions:

Basic Principles of Safety:

• Principles of Safe Surgery
• Sterile Gowning and Gloving Technique

Module 1: Open Surgery:

• Handling Instruments
• Knots
• Handling Sutures
• Incision Technique
• Handling Tissues
• Handling Bowel
• Bowel Anastomosis and Repair
• Handling Vessels
• Vessel Ligation
• Lump Excision

Module 2: Trauma and Orthopedics

• Handling Traumatized Tissues
• Handling Tendons
• Tendon Repair Technique
• Wound Debridement

Presented by: Mercy Ships team partnering with Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI)

Audience: This training is aimed at Surgical trainees (within 1^st and 2^nd year of starting surgery residency program) or Senior surgeons interested in teaching.

Selection Process: Participants selected by Mercy Ships in cooperation with Ministry of Health.

Requisites:

• Fluent in language course is being offered in (see schedule below)
• Within 1^st or 2^nd year of surgical residency program or
• Senior surgeon with desire to teach

Endorsements:

“The training was fantastic, interesting and absolutely essential! It has to be popularized.” Surgical student F.D. in Senegal

“I thank you sincerely. I have learned so much in these two days. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and thank you for the care that you bring to the people of Senegal.” Surgical student M.D. in Senegal

“With practical and relevant healthcare training projects that demonstrate and impart knowledge, skills, and a compassionate, professional attitude to each participant, Mercy Ships Capacity Building projects help strengthen the standards of care within the local surgical ecosystem. The legacy is lasting impact that extends for years – and even generations.” Dr. Nathan Coombs, Consultant Surgeon and Course Facilitator

“I’m planning on teaching the things I’ve learnt during the course to the OR nurses and students in my hospital” Dr. Z.L., Senior Surgeon from Dakar, Senegal

Assessment: pre and post course Confidence evaluation

Participant hours: 2 full days, possibly another full day for ToT

Credits:  Mercy Ships/ASGBI Certificate/ CPD credit possible

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Schedule:

2022

Dates: 

30-31 May

2-3  June

7-8  June

9-10 June

Location: Dakar, Senegal

Language: French

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Description: This course is designed to equip selected healthcare professionals, who have completed part 1, with teaching skills to help them train others. Day 1 of part 2 is presented in a traditional classroom setting and includes case scenario discussions. On day 2 and/or 3 the newly trained trainers have the opportunity to assist in teaching the initial course material to others under the supervision of the course facilitators.

Training Components/ attributes/methods:

_ 100% self-paced study
√ mentored
_ online
√ in person
√ small groups
_ projects
_ wet lab
√ simulation
√ case study
_ webinar
_ onboard a Mercy Ship
√ local venue or hospital
√ offered free of charge
√ accredited

Course Goals: Impartation of knowledge and skills train others in the course material.

Sessions:

Principles of learning

• Identify principles of learning including feedback
• Outline the domains of learning

Introduction to teaching practical skills

• Identify the four stages of practical skills teaching
• Applying this framework to teaching a non-clinical skills

Learning surgical skills

• Demonstrate four stage approach to the teaching of a clinical skill
• Adapting this framework to operating theatres

Teaching in a clinical setting

• Identify good teaching in a clinical context
• How to optimize opportunistic teaching in clinical setting
• Discussing ways of sharing responsibility for learning with learners

Action planning

• Develop an action plan for changes in practice

Presented by: Mercy Ships team partnering with Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI)

Audience: This training is aimed at Senior surgeons interested in teaching Essential Surgical Skills in the future.

Selection Process: Selected by Mercy Ships in cooperation with Ministry of Health.

Requisites:

• Fluent in language course is being presented in (see schedule)
• Have successfully completed “Essential Surgical Skills 1 ”
• Senior surgeon with desire to teach

Endorsements:

“The training was fantastic, interesting and absolutely essential! It has to be popularized.” Surgical student F.D. in Senegal

“With practical and relevant healthcare training projects that demonstrate and impart knowledge, skills, and a compassionate, professional attitude to each participant, Mercy Ships Capacity Building projects help strengthen the standards of care within the local surgical ecosystem. The legacy is lasting impact that extends for years – and even generations.” Dr. Nathan Coombs, Consultant Surgeon and Course Facilitator

“I’m planning on teaching the things I’ve learnt during the course to the OR nurses and students in my hospital” Dr. Z.L., Senior Surgeon from Dakar, Senegal

Assessment: None

Participant hours: 1 day of Training of Trainers and 1-2 days of mentoring/teaching the course

Credits:  Mercy Ships/ASGBI Certificate/ CPD credit possible

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Schedule:

Date: 1 June, 2022

Location: Dakar, Senegal

Language: French

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Course Description:

Mercy Ships in partnership with MedAid International or Optimum Biomedical offer a Capacity Building Program in Biomedical Equipment Technology. This training is an intense 8-week full time course. The eight weeks are broken into two and three weeks “blocks” of classes over a 3- month period. This training includes classroom lectures, practical training, homework, and examinations both practical and theoretical. Course content has been revised to include teaching on anesthesia equipment. Upon completion, participants will be presented with a Certificate of Completion. Topics may include but are not limited to the sessions listed below.

In addition, toolkit is provided to each participant at end of the project. The 8-week program is followed by a mentoring program at the hospitals of as many of the participants as possible, either individually or collectively, to reinforce the teaching and provide support.

Training Components/ attributes/methods:

_ 100% self-paced study
√ mentored
_ online
√ in person
_ small groups
_ projects
_ wet lab
_ simulation
_ case study
_ webinar
_ onboard a Mercy Ship
_ onsite/local hospital
_ offered free of charge
√ accredited

Course Goals:

Biomedical Technicians acquire the knowledge, skills, and professional attitude needed to ensure safe and quality repairs of medical equipment at their hospitals.

Sessions:  Topics may include but are not limited to the following:

• Electrical safety
• Personal safety and first aid
• Test equipment
• Safety testing
• Diagnostic testing
• Cardiac anatomy and physiology
• Electrocardiography
• Bioelectric impulses and the cardiac cycle
• Defibrillators and shockable arrhythmias
• Patient monitoring
• Temperature control
• Oxygen control
• Maintenance
• Ultrasonography
• Infusion systems
• Surgical diathermy
• Electronics
• Circuits
• Working with schematics
• Anesthesia and ventilation
• Infection control
• Decontamination and sterilization 

Presented by:  Emmanuel Essah – Mercy Ships

in partnership with MedAid International or Optimum Biomedical

Audience: Biomedical Technician/Biomedical Engineers

Selection Process:

The Head/Director of the Healthcare Technology Management at the MoH will select participants for this training. The Biomedical Project Manager from Mercy Ships will have an interview with each of the participants to ensure that they have the minimum knowledge and skills required to successfully go through the program. The Mercy Ships Biomed Project Manager may also decide to visit potential participants’ hospitals to better understand the environment where they work and to better prepare for the biomedical training. For this program, a certain level of Knowledge in Electronics, Electrical and mathematics is required from the participants.

Requisites:

• Minimum: High School (GED Level).
• Current employment as a biomedical technician/ biomedical engineer in a hospital setting
• This is an intense course. To successfully finish the program, the participants must have:

1. A strong interest in engineering and medicine.
2. The ability to think analytically and solve problems.
3. An aptitude for science and mathematics.
4. The ability to visualize complex processes and equipment.
5. Good oral and written communication skills.

Endorsements: Course accredited by CPD (Continuing Professional Development) – UK

Assessment:

• Interview before the training
• Pre-course test
• post course test

Participant hours: (depend on the country): 240Hrs

Credits: CPD accredited, Certificate of Completion

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Schedule:

Dates: To be announced

Location: To be announced

Language: To be announced

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Course Description:

The Biomedical Technician Mentoring Program gives an opportunity to the Mercy Ships Biomedical Program Manager /Mentor to spend time with the participants in their own context/hospital.

It is also an opportunity for the participants to have one on one with the Biomedical Program Mentor where the participants get to ask any questions they might have from the training. Participants also learn how to put into practice the skills that they have learned during the training. While the Biomedical Program Mentor visits the hospitals, he uses the same opportunity to encourage the participants and also advocate for them to their leadership to restore the relationship or the trust that might have be disrupted before they have been trained. Sometimes, because these local biomed were not able to repair equipment in their hospital, trust is disrupted. During our time in the hospitals, we used that opportunity to advocate for them knowing they had just been equipped by our biomed training. The Biomedical Mentoring Program of Mercy Ships is not a standardized program. The Activities of each Mentoring session in a hospital varies based on the specific needs of the hospital visited.

Training Components/ attributes/methods:

_ 100% self-paced study
√ mentored
_ online
√ in person
_ small groups
√ projects
_ wet lab
√ simulation
_case study
_ webinar
_ onboard a Mercy Ship
_ onsite/local hospital
√ offered free of charge
√ accredited

Course Goals:

• Gain practical advice, encouragement, and support
• Learn from the experiences of Mercy Ships Biomed Project Manager
• Increase social and professional confidence
• Become more empowered to make decisions
• Develop communication and personal skills
• Maintain a network of biomedical technicians in the country.

Sessions: The Biomedical Mentoring Program of Mercy Ships is not a standardized program. The Activities of each Mentoring session in a hospital varies based on the specific needs of the hospital visited.

Presented by:  Emmanuel Essah – Mercy Ships

in partnership with MedAid International or Optimum Biomedical

Audience: local biomeds who have completed BM1

Selection Process: Open only to biomeds who have been previously selected for and completed BM1

Requisites:

• fluency in listed language (see schedule below)
• prior completion of BM1
• current employment as a Biomedical technician at a local hospital

Endorsements: Course accredited by CPD (Continuing Professional Development) – UK

Assessment: example: pre and post course interview

Participant hours: 16-24 hours based on participant’s level

Credits:  Considered part of Biomed training program no additional separate certificate issued for participation in mentoring component

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Schedule:

Dates: To be announced

Location: To be announced

Language: To be announced

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Course Description:

This is part 1 of a three part series. Part 1 is a 1 day course designed to assist healthcare professionals with assessing and treating pain. It is presented in a traditional classroom setting and includes case scenario discussions.

(The complete 3 part series utilizes the Training-of-Trainers approach to train healthcare professionals by identifying key trainers among initial course participants and utilizing these new trainers in subsequent courses. The Essential Pain management series includes one day of initial training in pain management, followed by one day of “Training-of-Trainers”. The newly trained trainers will then have the opportunity to assist in teaching the initial course material to others under the supervision of the course facilitators.)

Training Components/ attributes/methods:

_ 100% self-paced study
_ mentored
_ online
√ in person
√ small groups
_ projects
_ wet lab
_ simulation
√ case study
_ webinar
_ onboard a Mercy Ship
√ onsite/local hospital
√ offered free of charge
√ accredited

Course Goals:

1. improve pain knowledge
2. establish a framework for managing pain
3. address pain management barriers

Sessions:

1. What is pain?
2. Why should we treat pain?
3. Classification of Pain
4. Physiology and Pathology
5. Barriers to Pain Management
6. Basic approach to pain management
7. How to assess severity of pain?
8. Pain management examples and case-based discussions

Presented by:

Dr. Odry Agbessi (Benin)

Dr. Helen Makins (UK)

Audience: doctors, nurses, anesthesia providers and medical students

Selection Process: In collaboration with the Ministry of Health, facilitators will identify and select appropriate participants for each initial course (Essential Pain Management part 1).

Please complete the online interest form to be considered. Course facilitators, in collaboration with hospital leadership, will select the participants for the subsequent Training-of-Trainers (part 2) and opportunity to help train others (part 3) .

Requisites: This training is aimed at surgeons, nurses and anesthesia providers who are managing post-operative pain.

Other medical professionals may also attend if space permits.

Endorsements: Run in partnership with EPM UK Working Group of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anesthetists (ANZCA) –   Faculty of Pain Medicine, approved by the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiology (WFSA).

Assessment: pre and post course assessments

Participant hours: 7

Credits: Mercy Ships Attendance Certificate

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Schedule:

Dates: To be announced

Location: To be announced

Language: To be announced

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Course Description: This is part 2 of a three part series. Part 2 is a 1 day course designed to equip selected healthcare professionals, who have completed part 1, with teaching skills to help them train others.

It is presented in a traditional classroom setting and includes case scenario discussions.

(The complete 3 part series utilizes the Training-of-Trainers approach to train healthcare professionals by identifying key trainers among initial course participants and utilizing these new trainers in subsequent courses. The Essential Pain management series includes one day of initial training in pain management, followed by one day of “Training-of-Trainers”. The newly trained trainers will then have the opportunity to assist in teaching the initial course material to others under the supervision of the course facilitators.)

Training Components/ attributes/methods:

_ 100% self-paced study
_ mentored
_ online
√ in person
√ small groups
_ projects
_ wet lab
_ simulation
√ case study
_ webinar
_ onboard a Mercy Ship
√ onsite/local hospital
√ offered free of charge
√ accredited

Course Goals:

To equip medical professionals with teaching skills to be able to teach others in essential pain management

Sessions:

1. Introduction
2. Giving a lecture
3. Presentation skills
4. Leading a discussion
5. Scenario teaching

Presented by:

Mercy Ships in partnership with EPM UK Working Group of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anesthetists (ANZCA) –   Faculty of Pain Medicine

Audience: selected healthcare professionals who have completed Essential Pain Management part 1

Selection Process:

Course facilitators, in collaboration with hospital leadership, will select the participants for Essential Pain Management – Part 2 Training of Trainers.

Facilitators identify these participants based on their performance on skills and knowledge assessment, observations of their performance and the availability of the participants to present these courses to their colleagues.

Requisites:

• Completion with excellence of Essential Pain Management – part 1
• Special invitation of course facilitators
• Interest and availability to present the Essential Pain Management Course to colleagues

Endorsements: Run in partnership with EPM UK Working Group of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anesthetists (ANZCA) –   Faculty of Pain Medicine, approved by the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiology (WFSA).

Assessment: pre and post course assessments

Participant hours: 5

Credits: Mercy Ships Attendance Certificate

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Schedule:

Dates: To be announced

Location: To be announced

Language: To be announced

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Course Description: This is part 3 of a three part series. Part 3 provides an opportunity for new trainers to gain experience training others the Essentials of Pain management with the help and supervision of course facilitators. Participants in part 3 lead classroom sessions and discussion topics.

(The complete 3 part series utilizes the Training-of-Trainers approach to train healthcare professionals by identifying key trainers among initial course participants and utilizing these new trainers in subsequent courses. The Essential Pain management series includes one day of initial training in pain management, followed by one day of “Training-of-Trainers”. The newly trained trainers will then have the opportunity to assist in teaching the initial course material to others under the supervision of the course facilitators.)

Training Components/ attributes/methods:

_ 100% self-paced study
_ mentored
_ online
√ in person
√ small groups
_ projects
_ wet lab
_ simulation
√ case study
_ webinar
_ onboard a Mercy Ship
√ onsite/local hospital
√ offered free of charge
√ accredited

Course Goal:

To successfully train other healthcare professionals in Essential Pain Management

Sessions:

Same as Part 1, under guidance of course facilitators

1. What is pain?
2. Why should we treat pain?
3. Classification of Pain
4. Physiology and Pathology
5. Barriers to Pain Management
6. Basic approach to pain management
7. How to assess severity of pain?
8. Pain management examples and case-based discussions

Presented by:

Mercy Ships in partnership with EPM UK Working Group of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anesthetists (ANZCA) –   Faculty of Pain Medicine

Audience: selected health care professionals who have completed Essential Pain Management part 1 and part 2

Selection Process:

Course facilitators, in collaboration with hospital leadership, will select the participants for Essential Pain Management – Part 3 Training of Others.

Facilitators identify these participants based on their performance on skills and knowledge assessment, observations of their performance in part 1 and part 2 and the availability of the participants to present these courses to their colleagues.

Requisites:

• Completion with excellence of Essential Pain Management – part 1 and part 2
• Special invitation of course facilitators
• Interest and availability to present the Essential Pain Management Course to colleagues

Endorsements: Run in partnership with EPM UK Working Group of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anesthetists (ANZCA) –   Faculty of Pain Medicine, approved by the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiology (WFSA).

Assessment: pre and post course assessments

Participant hours: 7

Credits: Mercy Ships Attendance Certificate

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Schedule:

Dates: To be announced

Location: To be announced

Language: To be announced

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Course Description: Mercy Ships is committed to promoting hope and healing through global mental health programs. The “Understanding People” eLearning course is designed to help participants begin to develop a self-directed framework to better understand others and themselves in ways that help facilitate healthy change in relationships, communities, and organizations. In doing so, this course is meant to create safe places for conversations and peer support around mental health, trauma, and addressing stigma.

Course Goals:

1. To better understand self and others using a series of mental-health models
2. Using these models to develop a framework to understand people holistically, including their needs, awareness levels, thoughts, actions, behaviors, and motivations.
3. To better understand self in ways that help facilitate healthy change in relationships, communities, or organizations

Weekly Sessions:

1. Orientation
2. Whole Person Model
3. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
4. Johari Window
5. Behavior Process Model
6. Change Model
7. Wrap up

Presented by: Kat Foley, Mental Health Program Specialist – Mercy Ships
With a panel of expert international mentors

Requisites:

1. Offered at no charge
2. Device and Internet connection capable of Zoom video meetings
3. WhatsApp
4. Time commitment of at least 4 hours/week

Credits: Mercy Ships Certificate

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Schedule:

Dates: To be announced

Location: To be announced

Language: To be announced

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Course Description:

Mercy Ships is committed to promoting hope and healing through global mental health programs. The “Understanding Stress” interactive e-Learning course uses a combination of: high quality easy to understand materials developed by mental health professionals working in Africa, peer groups and expert mentors to help participants begin to develop a framework to better understand stress and facilitate healthy change in relationships, communities or organizations.

Course Goals:

1. To better understand stress, its causes, and consequences
2. To better understand wounds of the soul—Crisis, Grief, and/or Trauma
3. To better understand potentially destructive responses to Stress

Weekly Sessions:

1. Orientation
2. What is Stress
3. Internal vs External Stressors
4. Crisis
5. Grief
6. Trauma
7. Destructive Thoughts and Feelings
8. Destructive Behaviors
9. Wrap-up and tools for continued learning

Presented by:

Kat Foley, Mental Health Program Specialist – Mercy Ships

With a panel of expert international mentors

Credits: Mercy Ships Certificate

Requisites:

1. Presented at no charge
2. Device and Internet connection capable of Zoom video meetings
3. WhatsApp
4. Time commitment of at least 4 hours/week
5. Prior successful completion of part 1 Basics of Mental Health 1 – Understanding People

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Schedule:

Dates: To be announced

Location: To be announced

Language: To be announced

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Course Description:

Mercy Ships is committed to promoting hope and healing through global mental health programs. The “Understanding People, Mental Health, and Trauma” in-person course is designed to help participants begin to develop a framework to better understand others and themselves in ways that help facilitate healthy change in relationships, communities, and organizations. In doing so, this course is meant to create safe places for conversations and peer support around mental health, trauma, and addressing stigma. Participants learn how to have a positive impact through safe, compassionate, and coordinated care. This course discusses similarities and differences among individuals and people groups, including vulnerable groups such as children, women, and older adults.

Topics are covered from medical, psychological, social, and spiritual perspectives. This is called whole person care or holistic care.

Training Components/ attributes/methods:

_ 100% self-paced study
_ mentored
_ online
√ small groups
_ projects
_ wet lab
_ simulation
√ case study
_ webinar
_ onboard a Mercy Ship
√ onsite/local hospital
√ offered free of charge

Course Goals:

1. Understand the concept of whole person care.
2. Have a better understanding of general stress, grief, and trauma.
3. Become more aware of common and severe mental disorders, epilepsy, and substance use disorders.
4. Learn basic stress prevention and management, and basic counselling skills.
5. Understand the issues of violence toward women, and human trafficking.
6. Learn ways to prevent child abuse, including sexual abuse.
7. Introduction to direct intervention for children who experience grief or trauma.
8. Learn to recognize when the client needs a higher level of care.
9. Network with other provider groups to effectively serve people coming for care.
10. Practice facilitating a training group.

Sessions:

Part One gives an overview of people from a holistic perspective. In addition, it provides models to better understand how to foster healing.

Part Two defines stress and trauma along with its causes and consequences.

Part Three explains how to prevent stress and/or manage stress. In addition, this part covers basic counseling skills, and how to counsel in different settings. Part Three concludes with simple tools to measure progress and success in a broad way.

Part Four examines mental, neurological and substance use disorders. This content is based on the World Health Organization guidelines.

Part Five describes and discusses specific groups of people, along with common issues for each group. These groups are: combatants, prisoners, people without homes, older adults, women, children and adolescents.

Presented by:

Lyn Westman, Mental Health Program Senior Consultant– Mercy Ships

With a team of expert international counselors

Audience:

This content has been adapted for (but is not limited to) use with the following formal and informal service provider groups:

• Psychiatric Specialists
• Primary Health Care Workers
• Church Leaders
• Leaders of Other Faith Groups
• Police
• Military
• Teachers
• Traditional Healers
• Social Workers
• Children’s Home Workers

Parts of the content may be customized, stressed or abbreviated to fit the educational background and area of specialty of participants.

Selection Process:

Closed. Participants are selected by the Ministry of Health, other government or Mercy Ships partner organizations and Mercy Ships Mental Health Program leaders. Please submit interest form for consideration if additional space becomes available

Requisites:

1. Transport, per diem, and lodging to venue not provided.
2. Mercy Ships provides course materials and a meal during full day training workshops.
3. WhatsApp (for communications and networking opportunities)
4. Time commitment of at least 40 hours for the week.
5. Able to read and write in the language course is offered in ( see schedule)

Assessment: pre and post course interview

Participant hours: 40

Credits: Mercy Ships Certificate of Participation

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Schedule:

Dates: To be announced

Location: To be announced

Language: To be announced

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Course Description: Health care workers often feel helpless when a disease cannot be cured or is life threatening. Palliative care takes another perspective, looking at the person behind the disease and aiming for the best quality of life, regardless of the nature of the disease.

In times of pandemics and/or limited resources the ethical dilemma about what to do for people who don’t qualify for advanced health care or don’t have the resources to pay for these services is expanding quickly. This palliative care course will introduce healthcare workers to an inexpensive, holistic specialty that gives them opportunities to answer the needs of suffering patients, their families and their health care workers, from diagnose to bereavement.

Course Goals:

1. Describe what palliative care is and use the approach in their daily work
2. Express the holistic needs of people with serious health-related suffering (SHS)
3. Know and use management algorithms for common symptoms (physical, psychosocial and spiritual) in people with SHS
4. Describe the basic ethical considerations with regards to delivering palliative care
5. Recognize the signs of end-of-life, and manage patient and families at this stage
6. Know and demonstrate the effective communication skills with patients and families about SHS, treatment decisions and end-of-life
7. Explore and understand the impact of grief and loss in patients and families with SHS
8. Explain the need for self-care and the different types, identify in themselves their level of holistic health and can exercise 2 different types of self-care
9. Make a personal implementation plan of gained knowledge and experience
10. Built a network with peers and mentors, to aid in implementing knowledge and experience in their health system, through support, encouragement and advice

Weekly Sessions:

1. Orientation
2. What is palliative care? Where and how can it be delivered?
3. Pain and other common symptoms and emergencies of life-threatening illnesses and how to manage them.
4. Psychosocial and spiritual issues in palliative care
5. Ethical issues in palliative care
6. End of life care and management
7. Communication and breaking bad news
8. Grief and bereavement
9. Implementation of palliative care skills in the primary nursing context.

Wrap up and tools for continued learning

Presented by: Christina van der Zande, Programs Consultant Palliative Care – Mercy Ships

Mariam Ibrahim, Palliative Care Team Leader – Mercy Ships

With a panel of expert international mentors

Endorsements: Hospica Africa, Cairdeas International Palliative Care Trust, (Global Health Academy of the University of Edinburgh)

Credits: Mercy Ships Certificate

Requisites:

1. Offered at no change
2. Device and Internet connection capable of Zoom video meetings
3. WhatsApp
4. Time commitment of at least 4 hours/week

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Schedule:

Dates: To be announced

Location: To be announced

Language: To be announced

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Course Description: this is part 1 of a 2 part series and includes 5-days of training in sensitization and awareness of palliative care provided by trainers from Hospice Africa, the palliative care team from Mercy Ships and in country Trainers/Facilitators.

This course includes Interactive lectures, small groups, simulation and home visits

Training Components/ attributes/methods:

_ 100% self-paced study
_ mentored
_ online
√ small groups
_ projects
_wet lab
√ simulation
√ case study
_ webinar
_ onboard a Mercy Ship
√ onsite/local hospital
√ offered free of charge

Course Goals:

To improve the participant’s skills and abilities in palliative care

Sessions:

1. Background to Holistic care
2. The role of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy
3. Communication
4. Management of pain (holistic)
5. Assessment, management and control of symptoms in HIV/AIDS and cancer
6. Palliative care emergencies
7. Management of death, dying and bereavement
8. Referral systems and Networking

Presented by: Mariam Ibrahim (Palliative Care Team Leader- Mercy Ships), Christina van der Zande (Palliative Care Consultant- Mercy Ships),

Audience: This training is aimed at Health professionals (Nurses, Doctors, clinical officers), Allied Health professionals (Pharmacists, Social Workers), Community Volunteer Workers (Lay people selected by the community who identify and refer or assist patients with health issues within the community), Spiritual/Religious Leaders who have a major role in palliative care, and Traditional Healers/ Practitioners.

Selection Process: In collaboration with the Ministry of Health of the host country, Mercy Ships will identify and select appropriate participants for this course.

Please complete an interest/registration form for consideration.

Requisites:

1. Keen to learn, have an aptitude to take on new ideas and a sensitivity to people who are in pain and going through Serious Health related Suffering (SHS).
2. Completed Mercy Ships interest form
3. Must be fluent in the language the course is offered in (see schedule).

Endorsements: Hospice Africa, Ministry of Heath

Assessment: Pre and Post course Test

Participant hours: 30 course hours

Credits: Mercy Ships Certificate

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Schedule:

Dates: To be announced

Location: To be announced

Language: To be announced

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Course Description:

 Part 2 of a 2 part series has a mentoring trajectory consisting of:

• A 5-day course on teaching and implementation of palliative care.
• Mentoring on execution of a participant’s project plan.
• Participation as a trainer in a future sensitization course.

This training will be provided by trainers from Hospice Africa, alumni from the previous course the palliative care team from Mercy Ships and in country or local Trainers/Facilitators. The course may include interactive lectures and may include home visits as well as other training components listed below

Training Components/ attributes/methods:

_ 100% self-paced study
√ mentored
_ online
√ small groups
√ projects
_ wet lab
√ simulation
√ case study
_ webinar
_ onboard a Mercy Ship
√ onsite/local hospital
√ offered free of charge

Course Goals:

To help participants improve, implement and transfer their knowledge, skills and abilities in palliative care.

Sessions:

1. Introduction to the course
2. Approaches to adult learning
3. Learning styles and Theories of Learning
4. Systemic Approach to learning
5. Action Planning
6. Identification of training needs
7. Setting goals and objectives
8. Teaching Methodologies
9. Lesson Planning
10. Communication skills and presentation skills
11. Assessing, monitoring and evaluation training
12. Designing and implementing a palliative care program

Presented by: Mariam Ibrahim (Palliative Care Team Leader- Mercy Ships), Christina van der Zande (Palliative Care Consultant- Mercy Ships), Trainers from Hospice Africa, in country Trainers /Facilitators.

Audience: This training is aimed at Health professionals (Nurses, Doctors, clinical officers), Allied Health professionals (Pharmacists, Social Workers), Community Volunteer Workers (Lay people selected by the community who identify and refer or assist patients with health issues within the community), Spiritual/Religious Leaders who have a major role in palliative care, and Traditional Healers/Practitioners, who were part of the sensitization course and are passionate and interested in implementing and transferring knowledge in palliative care.

Selection Process: In collaboration with the Ministry of Health Mercy Ships will identify and select appropriate participants for this course.

Participant will be selected from participants who completed PC2.1 Introduction to Palliative Care part 1- sensitization.

Requisites:

1. Keen to learn, have an aptitude to take on new ideas and a sensitivity to people who are in pain and going through Serious Health related Suffering (SHS).
2. Keen to transfer knowledge and implement palliative care.
3. Completed Mercy Ships interest form.
4. Completion of the sensitization course.
5. Must be fluent in language course is offered in (see schedule below)

Endorsements: Hospice Africa and the Ministry of Health

Assessment: Short teaching session from participants, evaluation with an audit form from Hospice Africa.

Participant hours: 25 course hours (Teaching session) and 20 hours mentoring per institution.

Credits: Mercy Ships Certificate

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Schedule:

Date: To be announced

Location: To be announced

Language: To be announced

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Course Description:

This course will provide nurses with tools to safely and respectfully mobilize patients during any prolonged hospitalization. It encourages safe nursing practices and introduces patient self-nurturing activities to aid in the prevention of unnecessary loss of function due to contractures, breathlessness and loss of muscle strength and fitness.

Training Components/ attributes/methods:

_ 100% self-paced study
√ mentored
√ online
√ small groups
_ projects
_ wet lab
_ simulation
√ case study
_ webinar
_ onboard a Mercy Ship
_ onsite/local hospital
√ offered free of charge

Course Goals:

1. The nurse understands which physical disorders and limitations and psychosocial problems hinder the patient to do self-nurturing activities and get out of bed.
2. The nurse is able to formulate (smart) goals together with the patient, which enable the patient to do self-nurturing activities and get out of bed.
3. The nurse is able to draw up a nursing care plan together with the patient based on these goals, including the right exercises and the number of repetitions needed to achieve the goal.
4. The nurse is able to reassure and motivate the patient to perform the exercises in the nursing care plan daily.
5. The nurse is able to involve present family as much as possible in the implementation of the nursing care plan.
6. The nurse is able to teach the exercises to the patient in the correct way and to perform the passive actions properly.

Weekly Sessions:

1. Orientation
2. Importance of Mobilizing Bedridden patients and movement analysis
3. Nursing care plan and SMART goals and strengthening of the legs, glutes and abdominal muscles
4. Strengthening the muscles of the upper extremity and upper back
5. Breathing issues and breathing therapy
6. Psycho-social obstructions
7. Problem solving – discussions on problems participants face in practice
8. Wrap-up and tools for continued learning

Presented by: Karin de Haan

• Physiotherapist from the Netherlands
• Bachelor degree Physiotherapy
• Specialized in Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation and Peripartum Pelvic Pain
• Elder in the Free Evangelical Church

With a panel of expert international mentors

Audience: nurses

Selection Process: Please submit online interest/registration form

Requisites:

1. Device and Internet connection capable of Zoom video meetings
2. WhatsApp
3. Time commitment of at least 4 hours/week
4. Practice partner

Assessment: pre and post course interview

Participant hours: 32

Credits: Mercy Ships Certificate

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Schedule:

Dates: To be announced

Location: To be announced

Language: To be announced

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Description:

This course provides an in depth review of all important tools and algorithms for proper diagnosis and management of eye disease. The focus is on skills and management that is appropriate for low resources areas.

Training Components/ attributes/methods:

_ 100% self-paced study
_ mentored
√ online
_ small groups
_ projects
_ wet lab
_ simulation
_ case study
√ webinar
_ onboard a Mercy Ship
_ onsite/local hospital
√ offered free of charge

Course Goals:

1. To enable primary eye care providers to accurately diagnose the most common eye care problems in sub Saharan Africa.
2. To improve the diagnostic skills of eye care workers working in collaboration with specialty consultants
3. To build strength in the best of patient care attitudes

Sessions:

Day 1: Periorbital disease, ocular history and examination 6 hours

Morning session: 3 hours

Welcome, team presentation, devotional

Introductions, course orientation, pretest (30 minutes)

Ocular anatomy

Periorbital Disease:

Acute and chronic blepharitis

Lid trauma

Ectropion, entropion, trichiasis

Chalazion

Orbital cellulitis

Herpes/ Zona

Afternoon session: 3 hours

Ocular history

Ocular examination overview (lid, orbit, conjunctiva, cornea, visual acuity, pupil)

Examination techniques for lids and orbit, proper hand washing/gloving, palpation, lid eversion exercise-cotton tip swabs

Case presentation

Questions and answers

Review

Day 2: External disease and injury, examination techniques 6 hours

Morning session: 3 hours

Devotion time

External Disease: conjunctiva and cornea

Acute and chronic conjunctivitis including vernal, viral, and bacterial conjunctivitis

Allergic conjunctivitis

Dry eyes

Pterygium, corneal foreign body, corneal injury, corneal ulcers

Blunt trauma and penetrating injury

Examination techniques for conjunctiva and cornea

Afternoon session: 3 hours

Case presentations

Visual acuity examination, visual field test, pupil examination, cranial nerve (3,4,5,6,7)

Questions and answers

Review

Day 3: Anterior segment and related systemic diseases     6 hours

Morning session: 3 hours

Vitamin A deficiency

Trachoma

Cataract, Glaucoma, and diagnostic strategies including pupil and visual examination

Vascular diseases including hypertensive and diabetic retinopathy

Leprosy, Onchocerciasis

Iritis, Acute glaucoma

Afternoon session: 3 hours

Case presentations

Review

Quiz

Wrap up and final evaluation (45 minutes)

Presentation of certificate (participation) attestation?

Presented by:  Dr. Eppe (Cameroon) Nov 2019

Audience: Primary Care Physicians

Selection Process: Please submit an online interest form

Requisites:

Stable internet connection

Assessment:

Participant – Pre and Post skills evaluation and cognitive evaluation quiz

Workshop – evaluation survey

Participant hours: 18

Credits: Mercy Ships Certificate

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Schedule:

Dates: To be announced

Location: To be announced

Language: To be announced

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Description: Course is designed to optimize the role of rural medical providers in the diagnosis and management of basic eye disease

Training Components/ attributes/methods:

_ 100% self-paced study
√ mentored
√ online
_ small groups
_ projects
_ wet lab
_ simulation
_ case study
_ webinar
_ onboard a Mercy Ship
_ onsite/local hospital
√ offered free of charge

Course Goals:

1. Optimize the role of rural medical providers in the diagnosis and management of basic eye disease
2. Set parameters in which primary care providers can safely address eye care needs
3. Build confidence in management and referral of patients with eye disease.

Sessions:

Week 1: Periorbital disease

Welcome, team presentation, devotional

Introductions, course orientation, pretest (30 minutes)

Ocular anatomy

Periorbital Disease:

Acute and chronic blepharitis

Lid trauma

Ectropion, entropion, trichiasis

Chalazion

Orbital cellulitis

Herpes/ Zona

Week 2: Ocular history and examination

Ocular history

Ocular examination overview (lid, orbit, conjunctiva, cornea, visual acuity, pupil)

Examination techniques for lids and orbit, proper hand washing/gloving, palpation, lid eversion exercise-cotton tip swabs

Case presentation

Questions and answers

Review

Week 3: External disease and injury

Devotion time

External Disease: conjunctiva and cornea

Acute and chronic conjunctivitis including vernal, viral, and bacterial

conjunctivitis

Allergic conjunctivitis

Dry eyes

Pterygium, corneal foreign body, corneal injury, corneal ulcers

Blunt trauma and penetrating injury

Examination techniques for conjunctiva and cornea

Week 4: examination techniques

Case presentations

Visual acuity examination, visual field test, pupil examination, cranial         nerve (3,4,5,6,7)

Questions and answers

Review

Week 5: Anterior segment and related systemic diseases   

Vitamin A deficiency

Trachoma

Cataract, Glaucoma, and diagnostic strategies including pupil and visual examination

Vascular diseases including hypertensive and diabetic retinopathy

Leprosy, Onchocerciasis

Iritis, Acute glaucoma

Week 6: Wrap -up

Case presentations

Review

Quiz

Wrap up and final evaluation (45 minutes)

Presentation of certificate (participation) attestation?

Presented by:  Dr. Guy Chevalley Sept 2020

Audience: Primary Care Physicians

Selection Process: Please submit an online interest form

Requisites:

• Stable internet connection

Assessment:

Participant – Pre and Post skills evaluation and cognitive evaluation quiz

Workshop – evaluation survey

Participant hours: 18

Credits: Mercy Ships Certificate

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Schedule:

Dates: To be announced

Location: To be announced

Language: To be announced

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Course Description: As a caregiver, you are responding to the need of those whose lives have been affected by disease, injury, and trauma. The choices you and I make as caregivers can build life and relationships, or the choices we make can be the source of pain and suffering for the very ones we intended to help. This program prepares you to be an even more effective part of your own care team in your home, your faith community, or your hospital.

Course Goals:

1. To see yourself and others as God sees His creation
2. To be a positive change agent in healthy caregiving relationships

Weekly Sessions:

1. Orientation
2. Physical health and safety of the caregiver
3. Emotional and spiritual health of the caregiver
4. Healthy coping mechanisms for caregivers
5. Consequences of poor coping mechanisms
6. Applications and personal goal setting
7. Wrap-up and tools for continued learning

Presented by: Kat Foley, Mental Health Program Consultant – Mercy Ships & Tributaries Int.

Requisites:

1. Offered at no charge
2. Device and Internet connection capable of Zoom video meeting
3. WhatsApp

Credits: Mercy Ships Certificate

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Schedule:

Dates: To be announced

Location: To be announced

Language: To be announced

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Course Description: As a nurse, you are often responding to the needs of those who are critically ill. The choices you make can have serious life or death consequences. This 8-hour course will examine the role and responsibilities of the nurse in the limited resource critical care unit (CCU) setting to facilitate development of the skills, attitudes and critical thinking required to provide a high level of patient care. It is offered at no charge by Mercy Ships experts in critical care nursing in 8 weekly 1.5-hour sessions.

Course Goals:

1. Enhance observational skills needed to identify the critically ill patient
2. Enhance skills in managing the critically ill patient, specifically for COVID related illness
3. Apply personal mental health strategies to support patients and reduce risk of personal burnout

Weekly Sessions:

1. Orientation
2. What is holistic care
3. A – E Assessment of patients
4. Medicine administration
5. Infection prevention control
6. Communication methods
7. Presentation case study
8. Final evaluation, Wrap-up and tools for continued learning

Presented by: Ali Herbert

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Course Description:

This course will provide nurses with tools to safely and respectfully mobilize Covid-19 patients during any prolonged hospitalization. It encourages safe nursing practices and introduces patient self-nurturing activities to aid in the prevention of unnecessary loss of function due to contractures, breathlessness and loss of muscle strength and fitness.

Training Components/ attributes/methods:

_ 100% self-paced study
√ mentored
√ online
√ small groups
_ projects
_ wet lab
_ simulation
√ case study
_ webinar
_ onboard a Mercy Ship
_ onsite/local hospital
√ offered free of charge

Course Goals:

1. The nurse understands which physical disorders and limitations and psychosocial problems hinder the patient to do self-nurturing activities and get out of bed.
2. The nurse is able to formulate (smart) goals together with the patient, which enable the patient to do self-nurturing activities and get out of bed.
3. The nurse is able to draw up a nursing care plan together with the patient based on these goals, including the right exercises and the number of repetitions needed to achieve the goal.
4. The nurse is able to reassure and motivate the patient to perform the exercises in the nursing care plan daily.
5. The nurse is able to involve present family as much as possible in the implementation of the nursing care plan.
6. The nurse is able to teach the exercises to the patient in the correct way and to perform the passive actions properly.

Weekly Sessions:

1. Orientation
2. Importance of Mobilizing Bedridden Covid-19 patients and movement analysis
3. Nursing care plan and SMART goals and strengthening of the legs, glutes and abdominal muscles
4. Strengthening the muscles of the upper extremity and upper back
5. Breathing issues and therapy for Covid-19 patients
6. Psycho-social obstructions
7. Problem solving – discussions on problems participants face in practice
8. Wrap-up and tools for continued learning

Presented by: Karin de Haan

• Physiotherapist from the Netherlands
• Bachelor degree Physiotherapy
• Specialized in Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation and Peripartum Pelvic Pain
• Elder in the Free Evangelical Church

With a panel of expert international mentors

Audience: nurses

Selection Process: Please submit online interest/registration form

Requisites:

1. Device and Internet connection capable of Zoom video meetings
2. WhatsApp
3. Time commitment of at least 4 hours/week
4. Practice partner

Assessment: pre and post course interview

Participant hours: 32

Credits: Mercy Ships Certificate

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Schedule:

Dates: To be announced

Location: To be announced

Language: To be announced

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.

Course Description: Participants discuss strategies for maintaining personal safety and mental well-being and have the opportunity to discuss issues within their own settings and set their own goals and encourage others in practical applications. “This is a critical time to support both the mental, emotional as well as physical health of our West African colleagues as they are on the frontline of preparation within their own national healthcare situations.  It is important that they know they are not alone during this time when news of the virus in other parts of the world has created so much fear,” – Dr. Westman.

Course Goals:

1. To see yourself and others as God sees His creation
2. To learn new paradigms in self-care needed during this COVID crisis
3. To be a positive change agent in healthy caregiving relationships

Presented by: Dr. Lyn Westman, Mental Health Program Consultant – Mercy Ships & Tributaries Int.

Requisites:

1. Offered at no charge
2. Device and Internet connection capable of Zoom video meeting

Credits: Mercy Ships Certificate

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Schedule:

Dates: To be announced

Location: To be announced

Language: To be announced

If you are interested in attending this course, submit your contact information here.