Celebrating International Universal Health Coverage Day

Universal Health Coverage Day helps raise awareness of the need for strong and resilient health systems. This year, we at Nurses International (NI) would like to share two main updates demonstrating what we are doing to make healthcare education more accessible for everyone.

1. Free Access to Nursing Education Materials

Firstly, NI aims to ensure that nursing students have access to all the materials they need to pursue their Bachelor of Nursing courses, regardless of location. Our nursing courses are available for free through our learning management system. Although we are still a few months away from completing all the courses that fulfill a BSN, we are already seeing the impact of our available courses.

Our Oncology Nursing Course has attracted learners from over 60 countries and over 250 different institutions. Notably, 31% of our learners are from South Africa, and out of our 854 registered learners, there are over 700 nurses and doctors/physicians! These numbers help us to truly visualize the vital nature of our work and the broad appeal of our content to healthcare professionals.

Feedback from learners demonstrates the positive impact we are already making:

• “The materials and references are commendable. Most especially the PowerPoint presentation for its precise and clear explanation of every topic.”
• “That I had my own time to plan modules and tests and had enough time during the year to complete all tests and case studies .”
• “Doing this course was very exciting and I do feel more confident in the chemo suite and when counseling my patients.”
• “I’ll be recommending this course to my fellow nurses working in our Cancer Center. I’ll also be suggesting this to our trainees and benchmarkers from other hospitals.”
• “I implemented much of what I learned in my everyday treatment of the patients. There were some questions that I had for many years and could not get a proper answer. The course cleared all of that up and made me better at providing support and educating my patients.”