To: Ms.

Hofmann
From: Allison Jones
Date: 2/20/14
Re: Post Library visit memo

A. Do nurses in different countries such as Africa get trained differently than in
the United States? Is their basic knowledge different?
B. Foreign nursing, nurse training, nursing, middle east nursing, nursing
requirements, education of nurses, nursing history
C. 1. Kinfu, Y, et al. "The Health Worker Shortage In Africa: Are Enough
Physicians And Nurses Being Trained?." Bulletin Of The World Health
Organization 87.3 (2009): 225-230. CINAHL with Full Text. Web. 20 Feb.
2014.
2. This article discusses the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa and the
completely shortage of health care workers to sufficiently take care of the
entire growing population. A lot of the article discusses how training can
be advanced more to be able to reach a greater population that is
currently not being reached. There were studies done by United Nations
Population Diversity and World Health Organization and found that these
countries are worse off now than they were just a few years prior in the
previous study. It also discusses how for their desired goal of nurses and
physicians it would take around 35 years to reach this goal because of the
mortality rates, but even some counties would never be able to reach that
goal.
I feel that this article is a very good aspect for part of my project on
how other countries are trained differently than the United States. It
gives facts and statistics on the ratio of doctors/nurses to the current
population and the amount that is actually being reached by these people.
It also talks about a plan that they have to grown this ration in the future
and why they are not being reached right now. To me this article is a
good basis for understanding what it is like in other countries compared
to the United States.
I do feel that this source is credible because it was written by
someone who worked for the World Health Organization at the time of
the research and was involved in the process. Something that could make
a difference in research is how long ago this was written, it was made in
2009 which means that in the past 4/5 years statistics and information
could have changed. But I do feel that the base principles of the research
are still relevant to the idea of my inquiry question. Even though it is not
the most current information I do feel that it is very useful when looking
at an overview of other countries and their differences in the United
States. Also I feel this is credible because at the end of the article it gave a
list of the authors sources he used and you could look up those sources
for even more information.

D. Going to the library helped me a lot in shaping my project because after the
speaker talked about what it means to be an inquiry project I decided that my first
idea didnt quite fit. But I knew that I still wanted to do something with nurses so I
decided to compare other countries to the United States because I have heard that
there is a large difference in the training of nursing staff. I now have a much clearer
idea of the things that I want to talk about and research in my project after hearing
more about an inquiry based question.