Open education resources support WHO nurse educator competencies

A recent article by BHP Director Alex Berland and colleagues is now available in a publisher version through Research Gate. It describes an innovative approach to tackling the shortage of qualified nurse educators, which is a major constraining factor or ‘bottle‐neck’ to improve the global supply of nurses, especially in low‐ and middle‐income countries. To address this specific challenge, one of BHP’s partners, Nurses International, has developed Open Education Resources [NI-OER] to support nurse educators with freely accessible curriculum materials and remote mentoring support.

Some of the original curriculum materials were developed by BHP volunteers at the IUBAT College of Nursing in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The paper analyzes how the NI‐OER could assist nursing colleges and individual faculty members in meeting the WHO Nurse Educator Core Competencies. The article concludes, “Technological solutions cannot solve all aspects of a complex problem like the global nursing shortage but… the NI‐OER appears to have the potential to support novice nurse educators with accessible, adaptable resources.”