Endorsing CDP for Quality Nursing and Midwifery Care in Zambia;
C hanging health care needs, technological advances, societal attitudes and expectations continue to make the health sector the most dynamic. These ever evolving needs demand for new approaches and responses to provide direction that influence health care policy and legislation, to inform resource allocation and to understand needs of the health workforce. In Zambia, nurses and midwives currently account for over 60% of all health care workers with most of them manning the majority of rural health facilities. The nature of work that nurses and midwives do demand that they be abreast with changing trends in the health care system. Apart from the desired competences that nurses and midwives attain before graduating from their training, it has been realised that after serving for a period of time, they need to retain or acquire new skills. The sharpened or newly acquired skills help to build capacity of the nurses and midwives within the evolving scope of prac...