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Nursing care at MSF | Collections | MSF Science Portal

Nurses spend more time at the bedside than any other healthcare workers and are a cornerstone of quality, person-centered clinical care in MSF health facilities. Through research, MSF has also shown that empowering nurses can also help expand patient access to care. In this collection, we highlight some of the evidence gathered on nurse-led care models at MSF projects, including through strategies that strengthen nurses through innovative training approaches and bedside tools.

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Research

Nurse-led initiation of hepatitis C care in rural Cambodia

O’Keefe D, Samley K, Bunreth V, Marquardt T, Bobi SE,  et al.
2023-04-01 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
2023-04-01 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
OBJECTIVE
To determine whether a nurse-led model of care for patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections can provide safe and effective diagnosis and treatment in a resource-poo...
Conference Material
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Video

Communities of Practice to improve knowledge & teamwork

Deplecker E, Prak S
2022-12-01 • MSF Paediatric Days 2022
2022-12-01 • MSF Paediatric Days 2022
Conference Material
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Video

KidzMed Project: the why and how of pill swallowing

Lim ES
2022-12-01 • MSF Paediatric Days 2022
2022-12-01 • MSF Paediatric Days 2022
Conference Material
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Video

Migration and refuge: Necessary topics for nursing teaching in COVID-19 times of migration

Yoshie Matsue R
2022-11-30 • MSF Scientific Days Latin America 2022
2022-11-30 • MSF Scientific Days Latin America 2022
Conference Material
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Poster

Impact of low-dose high frequency simulation training and mentioring delivered via digital platform on key midwifery skills among midwives in Afghanistan

Sethi S, Shrestha U, Aradhya R
2022-11-30 • MSF Paediatric Days 2022
2022-11-30 • MSF Paediatric Days 2022
Conference Material
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Video

"Le wi go ple ple": the importance of play in a humanitarian paediatric context

Haciomeroglu K
2022-11-30 • MSF Paediatric Days 2022
2022-11-30 • MSF Paediatric Days 2022
Conference Material
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Video

The Covid-19 nurse aide programme in southern Africa: improving provision of basic patient care on Covid-19 wards

Amrani M, Tullet R, Sandler B, Duarte N, Mutubuki H,  et al.
2022-06-10 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-06-10 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
Journal Article
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Research

Decentralised hepatitis C testing and treatment in rural Cambodia: evaluation of a simplified service model integrated in an existing public health system

Zhang M, O'Keefe D, Craig J, Samley K, Bunreth V,  et al.
2021-03-19 • Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology
2021-03-19 • Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology
BACKGROUND
Direct-acting antiviral treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) has provided the opportunity for simplified models of care delivered in decentralised settings by non-special...
Journal Article
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Research

Setting up a nurse-led model of care for management of hypertension and diabetes mellitus in a high HIV prevalence context in rural Zimbabwe: a descriptive study

Frieden M, Zamba B, Mukumbi N, Mafaune PT, Makumbe B,  et al.
2020-06-01 • BMC Health Services Research
2020-06-01 • BMC Health Services Research
BACKGROUND
In the light of the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) on health systems in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, contex...
Journal Article
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Research

Clinical mentorship of nurse initiated antiretroviral therapy in Khayelitsha, South Africa: a quality of care assessment

Green A, De Azevedo V, Patten GE, Davies MA, Ibeto M,  et al.
2014-06-02 • PLOS One
2014-06-02 • PLOS One
To combat the AIDS epidemic and increase HIV treatment access, the South African government implemented a nurse-based, doctor-supported model of care that decentralizes administration of...
Journal Article
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Research

Reliability and accuracy of the South African Triage Scale when used by nurses in the emergency department of Timergara Hospital, Pakistan

Dalwai MK, Twomey M, Maikere J, Said S, Wakeel M,  et al.
2014-03-26 • South African Medical Journal
2014-03-26 • South African Medical Journal
Background. Triage is one of the core requirements for the provision of effective emergency care and has been shown to reduce patient mortality. However, in low- and middle-income countr...
Journal Article
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Short Report

Antiretroviral treatment outcomes from a nurse-driven, community-supported HIV/AIDS treatment programme in rural Lesotho: observational cohort assessment at two years

Cohen RM, Lynch S, Bygrave H, Eggers E, Vlahakis N,  et al.
2009-10-08 • Journal of the International AIDS Society
2009-10-08 • Journal of the International AIDS Society
ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION: Lesotho has the third highest HIV prevalence in the world (an adult prevalence of 23.2%). Despite a lack of resources for health, the country has implemented stat...

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Snake envenoming: a neglected crisis

Snake envenoming: a neglected crisis

Every year 2 million or more people fall victim to snakebite envenoming, mostly in poor, rural communities of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Between 83,000—138,000 of them die, while hundreds of thousands more suffer debilitating long-term complications or disabilities.


Although some antivenom medicines are highly effective when used promptly and appropriately, many snakebite victims get no treatment at all. Those who do may receive antivenoms which don’t work against the type of snake that bit them, or were not rigorously tested for safety and effectiveness.


To mark World Snakebite Awareness Day on September 19th, the Collection linked below brings together recent MSF work on this highly neglected disease. Several articles and conference presentations help fill evidence gaps on the burden of disease and its impacts or on treatment outcomes with specific antivenoms in specific regions. Others examine how to tackle the formidable challenges of availability and affordability, the absence of regulatory oversight for making, testing and registering antivenoms, and the anemic R&D pipeline for new products—all of which impede access for patients to safe, effective treatment tailored to local snake species.

Mental health in humanitarian settings

Mental health in humanitarian settings
Complex humanitarian emergencies and other low-resource settings can be exceedingly difficult places to provide quality mental health (MH) care. Yet these environments also often have a high burden of mental health care needs. This collection presents a set of articles describing how MSF teams have adapted and evaluated ways of bringing clinically impactful MH care to neglected communities and patients—from forcibly displaced populations in northern Nigeria to Syrian refugees in Lebanon and typhoon survivors in the Philippines. It also highlights work on developing new tools for providing clinical supervision and for identifying those patients most in need of care in fragile settings, and on new approaches to delivering MH services during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Advancing Research to Improve NTD Treatments in Children by Saschveen Singh

Dr. Saschveen Singh is a tropical infectious disease advisor for MSF. Read more of MSF's recent work on neglected tropical diseases in pediatric populations, and of Dr. Singh's work at MSF.

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