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…
When she was a child, Jovane Jean’s aunt brought her to an orphanage. She grew up there until she was adopted. Things were looking up and a dream welled up inside of her to do something special. She wanted to become a nurse. Specifically, she wanted to be trained at…
You are the salt of the earth…. You are the light of the world. Matthew 5:13-14 These are the words of Jesus to his disciples. We at the Mary K Center for Global Nursing Development take these words seriously. In fact, we believe nurses are uniquely positioned to be salt…
The dream of the Mary K Center is to work with partners around the world to advance nursing education and practice. The dream of Miss Charledine Escarment, a young woman from Northwest Haiti, was to become a nurse. These two dreams converged in the most inspiring way when Charledine recently graduated…
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