Empowering Rwanda Women to be Gatekeepers of Community Health – A Nurse Educator’s Story
January 28, 2020
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Webinar Details & Objectives
Join Dr. Harriet A. Fields as she describes her own path working with an Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) to facilitate the empowerment of women in Rwanda as gatekeeps of community health. Familiarize yourself with her work in the World Health Organizations (WHO) Sustainability Goals and the Nursing Now Campaign realm.
Objectives:
- Identify WHO and UN Sustainable Development Goals 2020 and define relationship to Global Health Nursing - Nursing Now & International Council of Nursing.
- Profile the Role of Professional Nursing Educators and Practitioners in meeting Women Empowered Good Health and Well-Being - a Case Study in Rwamagana, Rwanda, Africa.
- Analyze the Role of Professional Nursing Educators and Practitioners in Prevention in Primary Health Care in rural villages for Capacity Development and Sustainability.
- Summarize role of university programs in nursing globally in WHO 2020 Year of the Nurse and Primary Health Care - Prevention of Preventable Chronic Conditions.
For a primer of the WHO Sustainability Goals review this 2018 webinar: How the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Will Impact the Future of Nursing
Speakers
Speaker
Harriet A. Fields, Ed.D., RNDr. Harriet A. Fields doctoral and master’s degrees are from her beloved graduate school Teachers College, Columbia University. Ed.D. Community Health Education and Nursing Education; Ed.M. Public Health Nursing Education. She has also served on Teachers College, Columbia University Alumni Council. While in graduate school at Columbia, she was research assistant to anthropologist Dr. Margaret Mead at the Museum of Natural History in New York. Dr. Fields is also a former RN member of the District of Columbia Board of Nursing and long-term care expert for the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program in Nursing.
As a nurse educator based in Washington, DC, with an expertise in health care policy and professional nursing’s leadership role in humane health care reform, she teaches Health Care Policy online to graduate students throughout the country for Simmons University in Boston.
Since 2012, Dr. Fields has worked in Rwanda for Empowerment of Women in Health. Now partnering with a local NGO in Kigali, she is Project Director for “Grassroots Empowerment of Women as Gatekeepers of the Health of the Community”. A visionary program through Train the Trainer programs for Community Health Workers and Nurses in Rwanda that meets WHO and UN Sustainable Development Goals 2020 for Women Empowered Good Health and Well Being.
For more information see www.drharrietfields.com.