RAPID SCALE-UP OF ESSENTIAL CAPACITIES RELATED TO THE COVID-19 RESPONSE IN REGIONAL HOSPITALS

Purpose and Objectives

To support efforts to rapidly scale up the essential capacities related to the COVID-19 response in selected hospitals in Azerbaijan by:

assessing and strengthening systems of triage, infection prevention and control, case management and intensive care;
training teams during these activities to create sustainable systems;
creating virtual technologies to mentor and support the newly trained health care workers.

Activities

Identify doctors to be deployed to Azerbaijan.
Train teams in necessary skills in Ege University, Turkey.
Create hospital preparedness teams of four.
Deploy teams to Azerbaijan.
Embed each teams in each hospital for two weeks
- Assess the current systems to identify gaps
- Work with hospital teams to address gaps
- Train hospital teams in use of essential WHO guidelines and tools
- Coach hospital teams in use of the online training platform

Our Educational Model

Our Educational Model is “Development and use of an Authentic Complex Adaptive Blended Learning Ecosystem which was utilized Community of Practice Development (CoPD) Approach”

For the development-or cultivate- of a Community of Practice, we have used “consultancy” as the domain, social collaborative learning approach based learning processes, tools, and events to create “the consultant community” and enabled them to learn from each other and World Health Organizations COVID 19 Documents as basic reference framework of the “consultancy practice” which our consultants will use in their work in Azerbaijan.

Limited face-to-face but high amount of syncrhone and asycnrhone distance training and mentoring activities involved in the blended learning processes. Several learning, communication, and working platforms (Academia, Practica, Data, MS Teams, Zoom) are integrated and used to support learning and practice of the consultants.

Training and Mentoring