An innovative and highly successful worldwide online community of practice, The Global Alliance for Nursing and Midwifery Electronic Community of Practice (GANM CoP), has received funding that will broaden and enhance efforts to deliver connectivity and best practices to nurses and midwives worldwide.
The GANM CoP, a component of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON), will use a $450,000 grant from the international investment company Kentrik Group to expand its global outreach efforts and to create specific learning modules and on-line teaching materials for health care practitioners in diverse settings.
The GANM CoP is based at the JHUSON in the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing Knowledge, Information Management, and Sharing (KIMS). In 2005, in response to WHO actions to increase the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for knowledge management and dissemination, the collaborating center created the GANM CoP-a first of its kind electronic Community of Practice specifically designed for nurses, midwives, and other community care providers in diverse and frequently poorly accessible practice settings throughout the world. Since its launch in 2006, the GANM CoP has grown exponentially from an initial membership of 100 nurses and midwives to a current total of 1,300 that now includes public health practitioners and policy makers and draws representatives from 118 countries.
Originally posted on July 6, 2007 @ 8:06 pm