The Nurse Mentoring program aims to improve the knowledge, skills and practices of the staff nurses around mother and newborn care, intra-partum and post-partum care and management of maternal and newborn complications, through its dedicated workforce/change agents called Nurse Mentors. This brief highlights the transformative role of Nurse Mentors in the health care system in Uttar Pradesh.
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Despite substantial reductions in perinatal deaths, India’s
perinatal mortality rates remain high. Rates are highest among disadvantaged socio-economic groups. To address this, India’s National Health Mission has trained ASHAs to counsel and support women by visiting them at home before and after childbirth. A qualitative study was conducted to explore the roles of ASHAs’ home visits in improving equity in perinatal health between socio-economic position groups in rural Uttar Pradesh, India.
Cluster Meeting Capacity Building Intervention has been designed to build competencies of ASHAs through ASHA Sanginis, who provide mentoring on a day-to-day basis. A customised cluster module was developed to train the ASHA Sanginis as facilitators to enhance knowledge and skills of ASHAs to achieve improved reproductive, maternal, child health and nutrition (RMNCHN) outcomes.
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Cluster modules are short interactive case studies which are administered during the cluster meetings at grassroots to deliver focussed information on family planning. They have contributed immensely in building capacities of Block Community Process Managers, ASHA Sanginis and RMNCH+A counsellors across Uttar Pradesh, in disseminating Family Planning messages effectively in community.
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IHAT conducted trainings with ASHAs to improve their ability to recognise danger signs and manage possible severe bacterial infection, pneumonia and diarrhoea at the community level. This brief highlights usage of job aids to improve skills and knowledge of ASHAs to support management of sick under-five children.
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