Exploring Interprofessional Collaboration For The Management Of Obstetric And Neonatal Emergencies In Selected District Hospitals In Rwanda, Assumpta Yamuragiye

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Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) is a care model in which different healthcare providers work together to achieve optimum patient outcomes. Ineffective IPC may lead to up to 70% of adverse events in obstetric care. In Rwanda, the need to reinforce effective IPC to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes was revealed following a maternal death audit conducted between 2009 and 2013. Also, in 2017, it was reported that 84% of maternal deaths were due to preventable causes, and 36% were due to delays within health facilities.

To improve maternal and newborn care quality in Rwanda, the ‘Training Support Access Model for Maternal …

Nurses' And Nurse Educators' Experiences Of A Pediatric Nursing Continuing Professional Development Program In Rwanda, Amy K. Olson

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Excellence in pediatric nursing education and practice can significantly impact child health globally. Educated pediatric nurses form a strong foundation for healthcare systems globally. In 2016, a Pediatric Nursing Continuing Professional Development (PNCPD) program was created and implemented in Kigali, Rwanda, through the Training, Support, and Access Model (TSAM) for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH) project. This partnership project between Canada and Rwanda provided pediatric nursing education to forty-one Rwandan nurses and nurse educators in 2018 and 2019. An interpretive descriptive study was conducted to explore the experiences of fourteen nurses and nurse educators applying pediatric knowledge and skills …

Values, Assumptions, Behaviours, And Practices Influencing The Professional Development Of Nursing Students Within Acute Care Practice Environments In Rwanda: A Focused Ethnographic Study, Benoite Umubyeyi

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The future of the nursing profession in Rwanda in large part depends on the nursing students who join the workforce and the training they have received. Preparing them to enter the profession with the necessary clinical competencies, values, and attitudes requires practice-based learning environments to become more supportive of facilitating their professional development. The current learning environments experienced by nursing students in Rwanda, and the values, assumptions, practices, and behaviours of different stakeholders involved in preparing them to enter professional practice, have not yet been explored.

The aim of this study was to address that knowledge gap by exploring the …

Imaginaire De La Fin, Icônes, Esthétique. (Ir)Représenter La Post-Apocalypse Dans La Bande Dessinée Et Le Cinéma Du Génocide Tutsi., Alain Agnessan

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Cette étude sur la bande dessinée et le cinéma du génocide tutsi s’écarte de l’analyse désormais canonique des politiques mémorielles et pratiques testimoniales pour en investir le parti pris post-apocalyptique . Elle s’agence en deux volets, ou, plutôt, en deux lieux de regard. Envisageant l’imaginaire de la fin qui s’est constitué autour du génocide tutsi, le premier volet de l’étude s’attelle à décrire une scène « cross-traumatic » ou transtraumatique, appelée génoscape, sur laquelle la pensée, les images et les discours critiques lient le destin éthique, esthétique et épistémique du génocide tutsi à celui de la Shoah. Cette démarche …

Timely Access To Maternal, Neonatal And Child Healthcare For Rural Communities In Rwanda: The Role Of Community Health Workers, Jean Bosco Bigirimana

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Introduction: In Rwanda, although there has been some progress in health care delivery as expressed in the reduction in maternal and child mortality, rates are still high and geographically variable. Improving equitable access to quality healthcare services for maternal, neonatal and child healthcare (MNCH), community-based maternal, neonatal and child healthcare (CBMNCH) depends upon using “community health workers” (CHWs). Yet CHWs program faces difficulties that upset delivery of the quality of the comprehensive package of services. Unfortunately, little is known about CHWs` performance and job satisfaction in the provision of CBMNCH.

Goal: The study aimed to provide insight into …

Regarding Aid: The Photographic Situation Of Humanitarianism, Sonya De Laat

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Since the invention of photography, the medium has played an increasingly central role in shaping spectators’ imagination of distant suffering and calamitous experiences. The discourse of humanitarianism has evolved alongside photography and has relied on the medium to give it shape. Indeed, humanitarianism is and always has been a photographic situation, which is to say, photography has played and continues to play a significant role in constituting the very terms of humanitarianism, including how it is referenced, conceived, understood, and practiced. This dissertation is concerned with the historical role of photography in shaping the humanitarian imagination, as well as the …

Mothers’ Perceptions And Experiences Of Accessing Maternal Health Care : Exploring The Role Of Community Health Workers And Continuing Professional Development In Rwanda:, Germaine Tuyisenge

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Reducing barriers to accessing maternal healthcare and training health professionals in emergency maternal health care are critical components of improving overall maternal health. This study used a qualitative approach to understand mothers’ perceptions and experiences of accessing maternal health in Rwanda and explored the potential of Community Health Workers (CHWs) and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to improve maternal healthcare. Socio-economic and geographical factors were found to be the primary barriers to accessing maternal healthcare. The findings reveal the important role of CHWs to improving maternal health and health professionals who received CPD training indicated that they were more confident working …

The Invisible Genocide: An Analysis Of Abc, Cbs, And Nbc Television News Coverage Of The 1994 Genocide In Rwanda., Daniel C. Harvey

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Previous scholarly studies of the relationship between the media and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda focus on the international newspaper coverage of the genocide, the use of print and radio hate propaganda by genocide perpetrators, and the international community’s refusal to jam RTLM’s hate radio broadcasts. Working at the intersection of genocide studies and media studies, this thesis contributes to the existing scholarly discourse by analyzing the daily content of the genocide on ABC, CBS, and NBC television news broadcasts between April 6, 1994 and July 18, 1994. I conclude that the American networks often used stereotypes that erroneously suggested …

Genocide And The Case For Institutional Responsibility: The United Nations And Rwanda, Meghan C. Fougere

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Based on the contention that having a clearer understanding o f where responsibility lies for mass atrocity is necessarily prior to any hope of preventing it, the overarching goal of this thesis is to explore the notion of the United Nations as a moral agent in world politics with a duty to respond to the crime of genocide. First, it looks to the existing literature on both collective and institutional agency to develop an account of how international institutions - like the United Nations - may coherently be thought of as moral agents, capable of bearing responsibility for their behaviour. …