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Background: Healthcare professionals' number in Haiti is reported to be 5,400: 2.8 per 1000, or 1.8 nurses and one physician per 10,000 people. There is a need for well-trained professional nurses to care for the population and educate incoming nursing professionals. The City University of New York's (CUNY) involvement in a project to strengthen the nursing school at the Université Publique d'Artibonite aux Gonaives (UPAG), is an essential initiative that can help improve Haiti's health care system. Methods : Members of the CUNY faculty team traveled to Haiti to conduct the initial needs assessment. They met with students and faculty at UPAG. A program was designed to respond to the need's assessment findings. CUNY faculty for the UPAG project were selected from a core member of CUNY Chancellor's Haiti Initiative team. It included educational sessions for senior students and an opportunity for UPAG nursing faculty to participate in a professional development program. Conclusion: The project fulfilled the needs for faculty and students' supports. However, there is still more work to be done. To this end, two UPAG nursing faculty participated in a Master's in Nursing program at Regis University and CUNY faculty continued to support students through a mentorship program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the study was to determine the power as knowing participation in change of primary caregivers of Haitian children, 6 to 13 years old, before and after participation in an education and resource health patterning modality related to risk factors and prevention of childhood vaginitis. Barrett's Power as Knowing Participation in change served as the conceptual framework. A pretest-posttest quasi experimental study consisting of a purposive sample n = 92 was conducted. Findings include statistically significantly improvement in power at posttest and relate the importance of health patterning modalities in enhancing power. Though limited, these findings have implications for nursing research and practice, support the unitary nature of power and the belief that power is an innate attribute. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]