Digital Storm: How Ghana Defied Doubts in Nursing and Midwifery Assessment Reform Against the Odds

Abstract

Objective: This paper seeks to thoroughly re-evaluate the strengths of Ghana’s nursing and midwifery licensure examination digitization implementation against existing criticisms on preparedness, equity and transition gaps.

Method: An in-depth counter-analysis approach drawing extensively from authoritative internal technical documents and monitoring data earlier unavailable refutes identified shortcomings.

Results: Experts initially flagged rushed timelines, infrastructure limitations, quality reliability fears and overzealous regional transfers based on policy commentaries.

Counter Results: Re-appraisal evidence verifies gradual sandboxing prevented exclusions; proactive investments combated hardware divides; customized tools increased sustainability; integrity reviews maintained standards; consultative practices enhanced adoption; and selective modular emulations enabled locally-appropriate innovations internationally.

Scientific Contributions: Multi-sourced project implementation datasets provide granularity revealing calibrated strategic change leadership upholding ethical obligational balances often obscured in policy critiques. Nuanced transition processes prove more resilient to systemic risks.

Practical Significance: For global south regulators digitizing credentialing, the case underscores managing adaptable integrations before ambitious overhauls; targeting functional needs authoritatively, co-designing tools democratically and scaling prudently sustains modernization goals equitably.

Conclusion: Ghana’s nursing and midwifery transformation offers a benchmark in low-resource digitization for human capital development sectors through its reinforcing mixes of customization, capacitation and cooperative advancement.

Recommendations: Regional policy learning platforms should document and disseminate more Ghana-like use cases that frugally leapfrogged education infrastructure not through disruptive imports but sustaining indigenous digital public goods targeting local priorities.

Keywords: Nursing and midwifery licensure reform, Digitized assessments, Change management, Low-resource contexts, South-South policy learning

DOI: 10.7176/PPAR/14-1-06

Publication date: March 31^st 2024