Laxmi Tamang
About Laxmi Tamang
Laxmi Tamang, RN, MPH and PhD student is a founding member of the first and only free-standing birthing centre in Nepal led by female health professional, and a founding member of Midwifery Society of Nepal (MIDSON). She is passion about improving sexual and reproductive health services, strengthening midwifery education and service, empowring women and promoting gender equality. As an Australian Leadership Award scholar, currently she is doing her doctoral study at the University of Sydney, researching on how gender-based power relations affect the uptake of sexual and reproductive health services among young Nepalese people. Learn more about me and MIDSON at http://www.ausaid.gov.au/hottopics/topic.cfm?ID=1914_7489_8187_2588_9517; http://www.unfpa.org/public/site/global/pid/5859; http://www.midson.org
Role(s) / Profession(s)
- Development Professional
Organization
- Aadharbhut Prasuti Sewa Birthing/Reproductive Health Centre
Language(s)
- English
- Nepali
Recent Contributions
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Laxmi Tamang replied to "course syllabus for Global Health Nursing elective in undergraduate program" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.
Dear Robert, I'm quite impressed in what you are doing. It seems to me that it will be useful for Nepal as well since we've high illiteracy rate, high maternal/neonatal deaths, poor access and utilisation of services, especially in rural and remote Nepal. By the way, by profession I'm a nurse with public health background and advocating to strengthen maternal health services in rural Nepal. In Nepal, we don't have a separate cadre called Midwives ...
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Laxmi Tamang started a discussion "International Award for Outstanding Contribution to Midwifery" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.
Dear All, It is a great pleasure and pride for us to be presented the Jhpiego International Award for Outstanding Contribution to Midwifery to Ms. Maiya Manandhar, Nursing Supervisor and National level Skilled Birth Attendance Trainer at the Maternity Hospital and Midwifery Society of Nepal's Joint Treasurer in a magnificent event, International Confederation of Midwives 29th Triennial Congress held in Durban, South Africa from 19-23 June, where more than 3000 participants across the globe comprised ...
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Laxmi Tamang replied to "Membership" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.
Dear Donna, I joined the Global Health Nursing and Midwifery community to share ideas, experiences, questions, discussions and resources with the nursing/midwifery colleagues around the world; learn and update about what nursing/midwifery colleagues are doing in order to support in improving and strengthening nursing/midwifery services in under-resourced areas; and network for the collaboration opportunities. I am a co-founding member of the first and only nurses led Birth/Reproductive Health Centre and Midwifery Society of Nepal (MIDSON) ...
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Laxmi Tamang replied to "Quality of Nursing Care and Nursing Leadership in Nepal" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.
Dear Tess, I would appreciate if you could elaborate bit more about School Nursing as an avenue to utilise nurses who are not working. Regarding the brain drain I'm not that much concern because wherever they go at least they are contributing for the mankind and we can't stop people mobility. I believe that it is a natural phenomenon to have wear and tear (i.e. people come and go) in this world. If some goes ...
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Laxmi Tamang started a discussion "Quality of Nursing Care and Nursing Leadership in Nepal" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.
In Nepal, according to the recent Nepal Nursing Council record there are around 30,000 nurses in the country. Every year around 5000 nurses graduates in the country from both public and private nursing colleges. Most of the graduates do not get the jobs so some stay at home, some work as a volunteer, those who can afford to go abroad go for further study and very few get job in the private medical colleges and ...
Recent Recommendations
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