Impact of Collaborative Master Degree in Nurse Practitioner & Nurse Anesthesia Education Programs a Case of Eritrea
Keywords:
Collaboration, Education, Retention, faculty development.Abstract
Moreover, the anesthesia program improved the quality of anesthesia practice at the National Referral Teaching Hospitals.
Therefore, the Asmara College of Health Sciences has proved the effectiveness and benefits of running graduate education programs in partnership with stronger universities.
Practice Implication: Policy makers who are leading the national tertiary education institutions in Eritrea should strongly support the colleges and institutes to create partnerships to run graduate programs to strengthen faculty capacity and prevent brain drain in the country, which is the biggest national challenge.
The School of Nursing (SoN) at Asmara College of Health Sciences (ACHS) suffered from a lack of qualified teaching faculty as well as teaching infrastructure both of which posed a major obstacle to producing competent graduates. To solve the problem, the ACHS sent BSc graduates to the United States and other countries to earn their Masters degrees; however, none of them came back to the country.
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