Training Community Health Workers Curso De Promocin De Salud

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Training Community Health WorkersCurso De
Promoción De Salud

• Patricia L. Goller R.N, C.S., F.N.P., M.S.N

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Purpose

• To train women, in various communities, the
  basics of health care
• for themselves
• their families
• for their communities

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Text Materials

• The Primary Health Worker World Health
  Organization
• Where There Is No Doctor David Werner
• Helping Health Workers Learn David Werner and
  Bill Bower

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Location

• The Episcopal Deanery of
• San Pedro Sula

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Women Attendees

• Individual Episcopal Churches sent women chosen
  by their priests
• The first course, 15 women attended and received
  certificates of completion
• The second course, 8 women attended and will
  receive their certificates on Oct. 23rd

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Course Content

• Personal Hygiene
• Fevers
• Diarrhea
• Respiratory Diseases
• Dehydration
• Nutrition
• First Aid

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Course Content

• CPR adults and children
• Pregnancy and prenatal care
• The birth process
• Breastfeeding
• Infant care
• Family Planning

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Course Content

• HIV/STDs
• Urinary diseases
• Cardiac Disease
• Hypertension

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Course Content

• Medication
• Injections
• Oral preparations
• Teeth, Eyes, Ears diseases and hygiene
• Alternative Methods
• Stroke and Heart Attacks

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Course Content

• Malaria
• Dengue
• Worms
• Parasites

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Course Teachers

• The first course was taught by two American
  trained nurses.
• The second course is being taught by one of the
  nurses and one of the students, Marta Lopez, who
  completed the first course.
• The next course will be taught by Marta Lopez and
  she will train someone from the second course to
  be another teacher.

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Expenses for the Second Course

• Spanish Text Books 180
• Trainers salaries 1300
• Lunches 500
• Miscellaneous 600
• Total 2580
• Excludes travel expenses for facilitator

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Class Location

• The first course met on Saturdays, 9 in the
  morning to 3 in the afternoon.
• The class met at the Episcopal Cathedral and
  lunch was provided by the school cafeteria.

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Class Location

• The second course has been meeting at the
  attendees churches.
• The women of the church, for that Saturdays
  class, provide lunch.
• The time is the same as for the first course.

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More Courses To Come

• This program is now self-sustaining and
  completely under the authority of the Episcopal
  Diocese of Honduras.
• Teachers and students will continue to be trained
  and then teach others to continue the training
  reaching more and more communities all over the
  country.

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