The Nursing Now Challenge Fellowship (NNCF) programme was funded by the Burdett Trust for Nursing through the Tropical Health & Education Trust (THET). The programme specifically aimed to build the leadership of early-career nurses and midwives in Africa and Asia, in alignment with the Nursing Now Challenge.聽
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- Increase leadership (confidence, competence, and capability) of participating nurses and midwives, enabling them to be more effective and increase their leadership, influencing and decision-making abilities.
- Raise the status of nursing and midwifery within Health Partnerships and within their multi-disciplinary teams.
- Raise the status of women, who comprise the majority of the nursing and midwifery cadres, within the health workforce.
- Improve quality of global health projects undertaken by health partnerships, and thus partnerships鈥� outcomes and impact.
Fellows were supported by both Zambian and UK nurses and AHP mentors.
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To support six Fellows in five hospitals to complete a leadership training and quality improvement project (QIP)
Country and Company involved
- Zambia
- Ministry of Health
- Lusaka College of Nursing
- University Teaching Hospital (Adult Hospital)
- Cancer Diseases Hospital
- Maina Soko Military Hospital
- St Francis Mission Hospital
- Chipata Central Hospital聽
Final outcome
Key outputs include:
- Completion of quality improvement projects in Emergency Nursing, Critical Care Nursing and Operating Theatre Nursing
- 5 virtual Community of Practices created, supporting Fellows working in Emergency & Trauma, Critical Care and Operating Theatre Nursing.
- Local mentors supported Fellows with their clinical projects and reflections from practice.
- Delivery of the BCU / Lusaka College of Nursing Mentorship train the trainer鈥檚 programme for local mentors.
- Writing for publication train the trainer鈥檚 programme for Fellows.
- International NHS / academic mentors provided professional and technical support quality improvement projects.
- Delivery of leadership journal clubs
- Publication in an international nursing journal which coincided with International Nurses Day.
- Blog raising the profile and importance of investing in specialist nurses for the Tropical Health & Education Trust.
- Presentations at two international conferences.
Further information
Fellows presented at the pre-World Health Assembly
- Notter J. Carter C. Mukonka-Sakala P. et al. (2022). Handing on the batten: developing early career nurse leaders. British Journal of Nursing. 31. 9. 504-505
Blog published by Fellows