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Below you will find information about ENA’s mostrecent events!
May 12th: ENA Celebrates International Nurses
Did you know that ?
International Nurses Day is celebrated on May 12th every year as a tribute to Florence Nightingale, the Founder of Modern Nursing.
CNA Mission
February 25 - March 1, 2008Dr. June Webber, CNA International Policy and Development (IPD) Director, and Nadia Hamel, IPD Nurse Consultant came to the head office in Addis Ababa to meet with ENA partners/stakeholders, and help ENA with completing ENNSIRP. Dr. Webber met with the Ministry of Health, I-Tech, the Clinton Foundation, the Canadian Embassy, and UNICEF. She also met with ENA’s executive committee to discuss the strategic plan and focus on making further progress. This visit was important, as it helped ENA to discuss immediate issues and work on methods to address those needs. ENA would like to extend it’s gratitude to the CNA for their help and guidance.
ENA Board Meeting
ENA conducted its board meeting on December 9, 2007 at the head office in Addis Ababa. At the meeting, ENA executive committee members and branch association representatives participated. The nursing salary issue and education were the main agenda of the meeting. Branch delegates presented the reaction of nurses on the salary increment made in August 2007, by the government. Also the representatives raised their concern and concern of other nurses on the education of nurses on the extension program. All the participants presented the methods they have used in their branches to handle current circumstances. ENA's president informed participants that the office has distributed position of the association on the education of nurses to concerned governmental organizations like the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, universities and branch association. The president has also made efforts to discuss the nursing salary issue, informally and formally, with governmental officials and other stakeholders and has planned to continue these discussions for the future.ENA Training Sessions
Nursing Leardership & AdvocacyENA conducted nursing leadership and advocacy training which was the part of ENA-I-TECH Project: ENA Capacity building initiative. Training was provided to 100 nurses working in different hospital and health center in Addis Ababa on December 28-30, 2007, in Harar February , and Dire Dawa on February 2008. The training covered nursing leadership, communication skills, advocacy, developing advocacy strategy, and discussed the process for preparing an advocacy plan.
Infection Prevention
ENA in collaboration with Ethiopian Public Health Association (EPHA) was working on infection prevention project since January 2007. As the part of this project, ENA conducted basic infection prevention (IP) training for 23 nurses in Adama, Nazareth from February 5-9, 2008. Introduction to IP and risk of infections in health care workers, hand hygiene, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), safe practices in OR, waste management, and decontamination and cleaning were the topics covered by the five day training.
ENA Research: ENNSIRP Update
The Ethiopian Nurses Needlestick Injury Research Project (ENNSIRP) was started in July 2006. The objectives of this study are to understand the prevalence/occurrences, determinants, reporting patterns, and risk perception of needlestick injuries (NSI) amongst nurses in Ethiopia. In December 2007, Neima Ahmed, the ENNSIRP coordinator, completed the assessment phase of the project in five sites across Ethiopia. The five sites assessed were Harar, Dessie, Awassa, Mekele, and Addis Ababa. The study aims to identify the factors associated with NSI, and will make preventive recommendations based on this data to protect nurses against the unnecessary risks of NSI. The data has now been collected and a preliminary analysis has taken place. The ENNSIRP coordinator and advisory committee had meetings with the Canadian Nurses Association representatives, Dr. June Webber and Ms. Nadia Hamel, at the end of February. The purpose of the ENNSIRP meetings was to create a new work plan for the intervention phase of the project. The intervention will be based on the data collected in the assessment and will be rolled out in the next few months. The ENNSIRP project will be completed as of the end of May. The team hopes to disseminate the findings of the study as well as distribute helpful resources to help prevent NSI and to improve the occupational health and safety environment for nurses in Ethiopia.The VON: ENA’s Annual Magazine!
The next volume of the Voice of Nurses (VON) magazine will be available shortly, so look out for it! Also, we encourage you to continue contributing to the VON. So please send us your input and feedback. For more information, contact the ENA office.