First Lady of Kenya Expected Keynote We are excited to announce that the 2nd annual “Building Capacity for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership in Africa” Conference will be held June 13-14, 2019 at St. Paul’s University in Limuru, Kenya. The Medical Benevolence Foundation and the Mary K Center for Global Nursing…
“For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves?” As we come to the end of Nurses Week and we look forward to International Nurse’s Day and Mother’s Day in the US, we would like to take a moment to honor the…
National Nurses Week and International Nursing day is the “official” time to celebrate outstanding nurses world wide. As the backbone for our healthcare system, the Mary K Center for Global Nursing Development celebrates you year-round. We especially honor a nurse’s gift of perseverance and the ability to lean on God….
Dr. Nandili, Director of Nursing Services for Kenya, Delivers Report Connecting nurses with key experts and critical information is one of the primary roles of the Mary K Center for Global Nursing Development. We do this virtually and in person. To this end, we were honored to host Dr. Mary…
As nurses, we start from a place of serving others. Given the nature of our profession, we often find ourselves overwhelmed by the increasing demands in patient care, staffing shortages, holiday schedules, etc. At some point this Easter weekend we hope that you can stop and simply let go of…
Intervention Packages That Can Help This is Part II in our series to present published data and evidence-based best practices that everyone needs to be aware of – regardless of the country. We began this series with a review of the causes and this week we look at the interventions…
A Global Look at the Causes One of the important goals of the Mary K Center is to share issues meaningful to all nurses worldwide and hopefully, distribute new research and evidence-based best practices that everyone needs to be aware of – regardless of the country. Early in February, we…
Unacceptably high levels of maternal deaths plague countries around the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 830 women around the world die from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications every day. Maternal mortality is higher in rural and poorer communities. This is not a problem limited to developing countries. In fact,…
In Haiti, like many other countries around the world, nurses often do not get the same respect that a doctor does. This is true even though most of the health care rests on the nurses’ shoulders. Hilda Alcindor, Dean of nursing school Faculté Des Sciences Infirmières De Léogane (FSIL), thinks…
Nurses in developing countries are the backbone of medicine. The Mary K Center believes that it is essential, then, to give them access to the most advanced information on best practices. The Internet is the go-to place for the latest medical news for many. But what do you do for…
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