Nursing Toolkit

Clinical Practice

Diseases and Conditions

Provider Training Toolkit for CAB-LA for PrEP
Toolkit designed to help clinicians learn about and support the provision of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP).
Lippincott Nursing Center: Nursing Pocket Cards
Variety of resources for clinical conditions and nursing care.

Global Health

Best Practice Guidelines Program (RNAO)
List of free resources from Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario.
World Health Organization Health Topics
Dedicated to the well-being of all people and guided by science, the World Health Organization leads and champions global efforts to give everyone, everywhere an equal chance to live a healthy life.
NextGenU
Free interdisciplinary health sciences courses, including certificates.
How to reach the last milestone for HIV elimination in Africa: a data-based mapping approach
The authors discuss how to reach the last UNAIDS target by using a data-based mapping approach to find undiagnosed people living with HIV.
Medical Aid Films
Seeing babies dying needlessly from tetanus due to their cord being cut with a dirty knife, midwife Fiona Laird sought a way to share simple but life-saving information with health workers and mothers in the community.
Research and Action to End Neglected Tropical Diseases
There are 20 Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) that affect 1.7 billion people, one billion of which are children, most of whom are poor and live in tropical environments. Hear from a panel of global experts who share what we can do to prevent, treat and eliminate these illnesses that affect some of the world’s most under-resourced communities.

Infection Prevention and Control

Infection Prevention and Control Fundamentals
Free scenario-based learning program developed specifically for nurses.
Digitalizing Malaria Campaigns
Considerations and recommendations for digitalizing large-scale campaigns, to better understand the people, processes, and technology solutions required for success.
CDC Training and Continuing Education Online (TCEO)
Wide array of continuing education courses from the CDC with completion certificates. Requires free account.
Jhpiego
Supporting better health and a brighter future for families everywhere.

Neonatal and Pediatrics

UNICEF
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
Newborn Essential Solutions and Technology (NEST360)
An international alliance united to end preventable newborn deaths in African hospitals. Available resources support clinicians, engineers, and administrators to implement an evidence-based model for sustainable, high-quality hospital-based newborn care in limited-resource settings.

Nursing and Midwifery

Align MNH
Knowledge sharing and convening platform to share, learn, problem solve, and align around priority issues for improving maternal and newborn survival.
Maternity Waiting Home Toolkit
Toolkit is with information, resources and examples of protocols for communities and health systems that are considering maternity waiting homes to improve maternal and newborn health.
Nursing and Midwifery: Key Facts
Nurses and midwives are central to Primary Health Care and the quality of their initial assessment, care and treatment is vital.

Perioperative Nursing

Perioperative Nursing E-Learning Foundational Programme (PeN PROGRAMME)
This one year (free) Programme aims to support the development and maintenance of clinical competence in perioperative nursing care and to contribute to safe patient care pre/during and after surgery in East, Central, and Southern Africa. It will provide learners with up to date, evidenced based knowledge to critically develop their theoretical and practical understanding of nursing care delivery in the operating theatre environment.

Quality and Safety

Institute for Healthcare Improvement
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement takes a unique approach to working with health systems, countries, and other organizations on improving quality, safety, and value in health care. This approach is called the science of improvement.
Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030
The purpose of the WHO action plan is to provide strategic direction for all stakeholders for eliminating avoidable harm in health care and improving patient safety in different practice domains through policy actions on safety and quality of health services, as well as for implementation of recommendations at the point of care. The action plan provides a framework for countries to develop their respective national action plans on patient safety, as well to align existing strategic instruments for improving patient safety in all clinical and health-related programmes.
Manchester Patient Safety Framework (MaPSaF)
The Manchester Patient Safety Framework (MaPSaF) from the NPSA is a tool to help NHS organisations and healthcare teams assess their progress in developing a safety culture.
Joint Commission International
JCI is an independent, not-for-profit organization that identifies, measures, and shares best practices in quality and patient safety around the world.
SafeCare Standards v4.0
SafeCare has introduced standards to provide healthcare organizations with independent quality assessments. The standards are designed to help bridge the gap between today and a better tomorrow, bringing healthcare quality and patient safety to new levels.

Research

African Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREHealth)
Interdisciplinary health professional grouping that seeks to work with Ministries of Health, training institutions and other stakeholders to improve the quality of health care in Africa through research, education and capacity building.
Raising the profile of nurses in LMIC settings through research
Implications of nursing research for nursing development in lower-resourced countries.
Using systems thinking to integrate nursing research into clinical practice
Evidence-based practice and systems thinking drive clinical quality and patient safety.
Nurses’ and midwives’ participation and utilization of health-related research in Kenya: Implications for evidence-based practice
Participation in research and utilization of research evidence in practice is imperative if nursing and midwifery science and art are going to advance and achieve the outcomes our professions, patients, and communities of the 21st century need and deserve.

Vital Signs

Vital Signs: Understanding What the Body Is Telling Us
In this six-part course we explore the anatomy and physiology underlying the vital signs so that you will develop a systematic, integrated understanding of how the body functions. We discuss normal ranges, normal variants, and the mechanisms that underlie changes in the objective measurement of vital signs. The course also includes demonstrations of appropriate techniques for measuring vital signs in yourself and others.