Evaluering
Peer Evaluation of Skills Laboratory Interventions in Malawian Nursing Colleges
In 2007 the Malawian nursing colleges expressed a need for improving skills laboratories teaching and learning during a national meeting in Mangochi. In addition to this, tutors who went to Norway in that same year experienced the positive role that skills laboratory plays in providing quality education in nursing. (NCA, 2007, p 4, 7) A needs assessment in the existing skills laboratories was agreed upon to be done in 2008 in order to meet this need. Recommendations from the needs assessment resulted into building and renovating nine skills laboratories and procuring skills laboratory equipment. The colleges had a role to play regarding the improvement of the colleges’ skills laboratories.Year 2008 to 2012 the Improved Health Training in partnership with the colleges has been implementing the recommendations. Therefore it became necessary to know to what extent the recommendations were implemented. An evaluation exercise was then planned whose terms of reference were as follows: Develop data collection tools, training nurse educators as enumerators, conduct pre–test of the tool, supervise the data collection, analyse the data collected and compile an evaluation report. The enumerators were tutors from the 9 CHAM colleges and MCHS.