{"id":627,"date":"2009-07-01T15:05:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T15:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/?p=627"},"modified":"2016-03-01T15:35:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T15:35:13","slug":"nursing-the-future-e-learning-and-clinical-care-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/nursing-the-future-e-learning-and-clinical-care-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing the Future: e-learning and clinical care, in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" href=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PV-Nursing-the-Future.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-836\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"nursing, e-learning, Kenya health, AMREF, training, health\" src=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Nursing-the-future-cover-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"nursing, e-learning, Kenya health, AMREF, training, health\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Nursing-the-future-cover-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Nursing-the-future-cover-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Nursing-the-future-cover-170x240.jpg 170w, https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Nursing-the-future-cover.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Few tests of the new methods of e-learning can be more exacting than to improve standards of clinical care by hard-pressed nurses in Kenya&#8217;s busy hospitals and clinics. But such is the ambition which drives the country&#8217;s first nationwide e-learning programme for nurses, devised by the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF). In this candid and detailed account Angela Nguku chronicles the evolution of the e-learning programme. From her perspective as coordinator of the AMREF Virtual Nursing School in Nairobi, she charts both the obstacles &#8211; a shortage of qualified tutors, the scarcity of clinical placements &#8211; and the priorities to overcome them.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PV-Nursing-the-Future.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1278\" title=\"Download PDF\" src=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/pdf_download_ari.png\" alt=\"Download PDF\" width=\"55\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few tests of the new methods of e-learning can be more exacting than to improve standards of clinical care by hard-pressed nurses in Kenya&#8217;s busy hospitals and clinics. 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From her perspective as coordinator of the AMREF Virtual Nursing School in Nairobi, she charts both the obstacles &#8211; a shortage of qualified tutors, the scarcity of clinical placements &#8211; and the priorities to overcome them. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,96,239,97,30,65,33],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy-voices","tag-africa","tag-amref","tag-angela-nguku","tag-e-learning","tag-health-in-publications","tag-kenya","tag-training-in-publications"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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