The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Redesignated as a PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing  Midwifery  Leadership
2010-2014

     In 1988, under Dean Claire Fagin, the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing was one of the first two nursing schools in the USA to be officially designated as a World Health Organization Collaborating Center (WHOCC) in Nursing and Midwifery Leadership.  The Penn Nursing School has been redesignated as a WHOCC every 4 years since 1988.  We are delighted that we have been redesignated for the next four years, particularly because redesignation facilitates our networking with other WHOCC around the world.

     A term of reference (ToR) is a brief statement of the nature of activity that the WHOCC will undertake during its current 4-year period of official designation as a WHOCC.  Prior to (re)designation, the ToRs are carefully negotiated, word-smithed, and agreed upon by both the WHO/PAHO and the WHOCC. Each ToR is defined by one to three projects that the WHOCC is committed to carry out during the 4-year designation period.  Only one person may be named for a project.  The projects must be directly related to WHO policies and priorities, and typically are above and beyond the normal conduct of the host School of Nursing.  They serve as a means to help implement WHO priorities.

• Term of Reference 1 (TOR1)
• Term of Reference 2 (TOR2)
• Term of Reference 3 (TOR3)
  
  

Term of Reference 1 (TOR 1)

Work with the World Health Organization to contribute to the development of primary health care based health systems by strengthening nursing and midwifery human resources to address the Millennium Development Goals.

• Enhancing health work force capacity in primary health care to promote the health
  of rural populations of India.
  
• Interprofessional south-north consortium of universities for education of leaders in
  global health.
  

In collaboration with the World Health Organization, systematically promote sustainable interprofessional education and collaborative research

• Collaborative interprofessional research for developing forensic assessment
  guidelines related to skin color in Puerto Rico.

Assist the World Health Organization in fostering development of human resources by working to reduce nurse shortages and to improve work environments for nurses.

• Nurse work environments and retention in Europe
  
• Networks in Asia for assessment of hospital nurse work environments  

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