African Journal of Nursing and Midwifery

Full Length Research Paper

Nursing instruction and workforce advancement: Implications for maternal wellbeing: A Case study in Anambra State, Nigeria

Odimagwe Eze Charles

Nursing and Health Studies, University of Science and Technology, Enugu, Nigeria.

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Accepted 22 September, 2014

Abstract

The relationship in the middle of nursing and maternal wellbeing displays a honest to goodness arrangement talk. In this subjective spellbinding study, the perspectives of attendant masters on the current status of nursing and birthing assistance training, and workforce advancement issues as they identify with maternal wellbeing in Nigeria was investigated. Center was on masters as they constitute imperative players in approach choices identified with nursing workforce and maternal wellbeing administrations conveyance. Subjective substance investigation was utilized to dissect meeting information. The discoveries of this study demonstrated that nursing and maternity care schools use a thorough educational module commanded by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN). It was additionally observed that nursing workforce improvement is tormented by pedagogical issues, sex issues, and multi-faceted wellbeing frameworks challenges. These discoveries propose that Nigerian nursing workforce is profoundly shaky and more extensive approaches on workforce preparing, recruitment and maintenance are expected to enhance maternal wellbeing conclusions.

Key words: Nursing education, midwifery education, nursing workforce development, health policies.