OUR NURSING PARTNERSHIP

Moi University School of Nursing and Midwifery

• Began as the Department of Nursing in the Faculty of Health Sciences in 1998 and in 2011 became the School of Nursing and Midwifery in the College of Health Sciences which also includes the Schools of Medicine, Public Health and Dentistry. Students learn together in theory and in the field during Community Based Education and Service (COBES) placement.

• Offers the following programs:

  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing—geared towards producing a graduate nurse with critical thinking and analytical skills who approach issues with holistic global perspective and who integrate theory and practice in the assessment and provision of healthcare. 

  • Bachelor of Science in Community Health Education—began in 2016 for refugees at the Daadab refugee camp who were expected to go back to Somalia and lead health activities in their country. The first cohort of Kenyan students was admitted in 2017 and two cohorts have graduated. The main objective of this program is health promotion and disease prevention at the community level through health education.

  • Master of Science in Nursing & Midwifery-Maternal and Neonatal Health—postgraduate program providing specialized maternal and neonatal care in line with the Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5 to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health.

• Collaborations with Indiana University School of Nursing, University of Texas, University of Kansas Medical Centre, Linköping University in Sweden and other institutions.

• Students are involved in a number of outreach activities shown by the photos below.

Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital

• First hospital in western Kenya to employ clinical nurse educators (CNE) who play a vital role in supporting and educating bedside nurses. CNEs lead quality improvement projects throughout the hospital to improve patient outcomes. CNEs excel in their areas of nursing expertise and use their experience to provide continuing education to bedside nurses.

• Home to the first nursing education and simulation center in Uasin Gishu County which provides simulation learning experiences for nearly 1,000 nurses employed at MTRH led by the CNEs.

• Wound care group was initiated in 2021 at MTRH in collaboration with IU Health. The multidisciplinary approach in their management of wounds is a key strength for this team. Trained wound care nurses work in collaboration with doctors, physiotherapists and orthopedic technicians to ensure that they do not just treat “the hole in the person but rather focus on the whole person.”

• Clinical research drives evidence-based practice and nurses in MTRH are highly engaged in nursing research as evidenced by the variety of conference presentations the nurses have participated in over the years.

• To improve patient safety linked nurse sensitive patient outcomes, the clinical nurse educators and nursing consortium members collaboratively developed peer-reviewed Standard Operating Procedures on Medication Safety and High-Risk intravenous drugs. These protocols are currently in use across the hospital.

Indiana University Schoool of Nursing

• Strategic goal for student education is to educate nurses to deliver, lead, innovate, and improve health care locally and globally.

• Global or intercultural learning has become even more critical in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic and the school is expanding virtual student exchange model in more courses aimed to: reach the largest cohorts of students at one time and target every student longitudinally and seamlessly while increasing student intercultural exposure, knowledge and skills. The success of this global virtual exchange requires collaboration with schools of nursing across the world. This fulfils our university strategic priority to immerse every student in at least one international experience - using the sustainable development goals (SDGS) to frame topics of mutually beneficial interest and conversations.

• The Nursing Honors Program at IUSON is designed to challenge motivated students interested in developing skills in knowledge generation, utilization, and dissemination. During 2021-2022, three undergraduate students from MUSN actively participated in this program alongside IUSON undergraduate students for four semesters. Together, they conducted a scoping review and presented two posters at the IUPUI Center for Research and Learning Division of Undergraduate Education. The presentations showcased the findings of the scoping review and their experiences with online intercultural learning.

University of Texas School of Nursing

• New global virtual exchange development grant project began 2020 and provides an opportunity for perinatal nursing faculty at Moi University and UT Austin Schools of Nursing to trial virtual classroom exchange equipment and develop a project curriculum. The project is co-directed led by faculty at both schools.

• More than 100 students at both universities engaged over “WhatsApp” on perinatal nursing topics.

• Thirteen students from UT Austin visited Eldoret for two weeks in July 2023. The students were an interdisciplinary group from nursing, engineering, architecture, neuroscience, public heath and international relations.  They formed four teams including one Moi University nursing student and each team worked on a wound care project. They also met leaders from nursing and medicine at Moi University and were able to attend wound care training with the nurses that work at MTRH. The project continues for an additional semester with two Moi nursing students visiting Texas for six weeks in the fall semester.