Global Partnerships Expand Training for Surgical and Perioperative Nurses

Nursing partnerships led by the UCSF Center for Global Nursing continue to strengthen the surgical workforce across East Africa. Congratulations to CGN Director and CHESA Director of Educaiton Rebecca Silvers, MSN, DNP on expanding this critical work. In Uganda, nurse educators completed a Training of Trainers program in pediatric emergency care, while in Tanzania, 26 nurses graduated from the first perioperative nursing certificate program in Sub-Saharan Africa. Rebecca Silvers also represented the UCSF WHO Collaborating Centre for Emergency, Critical and Operative Care (which CHESA co-leads) at the World Health Assembly, Acute Care Action Network and G4 Alliance meetings and joined global policy leaders to elevate the role of nurses in strengthening health systems worldwide.