Attracting and retaining nurses to a rural hard to reach post in lesotho: A combination of financial incentives, preservice competency based curriculum and student rural clinical placements

H Francis Mwale

doi:10.1016/j.aogh.2015.02.659

Abstract

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Highlights

Kenya witnessed hundreds of cases of sexualized violence in the post-election period (December 2007 to February 2008), yet few comprehensive medical studies measure the prevalence of sexualized violence cases
The three projects focussed on financial and no-financial incentives, development of a competence based curriculum for midwives willing to work in rural areas and student nurse rural clinical placements program
Structure/Method/Design: To prepare a nursing cadre willing to be deployed and retained in rural hard to reach mountanous areas of Lesotho; To develop a competency based curriculum that prepares a nurse midwife to work in rural areas of Lesotho; and To attach student nurses to rural clinical sites in order to expose them to the rural work environment and prepare them for rural posts

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Kenya witnessed hundreds of cases of sexualized violence in the post-election period (December 2007 to February 2008), yet few comprehensive medical studies measure the prevalence of sexualized violence cases. Attracting and retaining nurses to a rural hard to reach post in lesotho: A combination of financial incentives, preservice competency based curriculum and student rural clinical placements

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