THE PRECEPTORSHIP TRAINING IN SCHOOL OF MIDWIFERY BO (SOMBO) 6TH -8TH FEBRUARY,2018.

WELCOME AND PURPOSE OF THE TRAINING.

On the second item on the agenda the coordinator of the school Mr. Thomas Johnny welcome all present in the training and gave an over view of the erection of the building and how it’s being funded by the Quant family, BMZ and Action Medeor. He further told them of the need for them to go through this training of Preceptor ship so that they too can help to give support to the students in their journey to fight in the reduction and eradiation of maternal mortality ratio and infant mortality rate in Sierra Leone.

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVE OF THE TRAINING.

The purpose and objective of the training was done by the Head of school, she informed us that the office of the Directorate is planning to train national preceptors but the CNMO gave the school the go ahead to do a small scale training for preceptors for areas where we will send  our student on clinical placement on the 19TH February, 2018.

The Head of school gave the objectives of the session as follows:

  • To understand the maternal and newborn health care challenges in the country and implication for midwifery education and practice
  • For participants to understand the concept of preceptorship and serve as preceptors for the student of SOMBO.
  • To create the linkage between the clinical placement setting and the classroom.
  • To  create a better understanding of what is expected when students are posted to clinical facilities and thereby improve quality of the students supervision,  guidance and support.
  • To give regular feedbacks and encouragement.

GROUP WORK DONE BY PARTICIPANTS

 

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We also learnt in the presentation by our facilitator Sister Hawanatu that a competent Midwife must possess the following qualities in accordance with the ICM code of conduct.

 

  • Must have the ability to perform.
  • Have the right attitude.
  • Their behavior at work.
  • How knowledgeable they are.
  • How skillful they can perform.
  • How they can cope with their task as preceptors

Picture showing Sister Hawanatu doing her presentation

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The training ended with closing remarks by the head of school and encouraged all the participants to put into practice what they have learnt.  One of the participants gave the vote of thanks .We had group pictures and ended the training in zealous spirit by the participants to take up their new roles.

Cross section of participates

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