Welcome to Haydom Lutheran Hospital (HLH)

Title: RN, SCM, BSc, RNTutor, CHN, OHN, MSc
 

Present position:
Nurse Tutor, Haydom Lutheran Hospital, Mbulu District, Manyara Region, Tanzania
PhD candidate - University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
 

Institution where degree(s)/diplomas were taken:
RN – Diploma; Nottingham School of Nursing, United Kingdom (1979)
SCM – Diploma; (State community Midwife) City Hospital, Nottingham, United Kingdom (1980)
RNT- Diploma; (Registered Nurse Tutor) University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa (1995)
CHN – Diploma; (Community Health Nurse) University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa (1995)
OHN – Diploma; (Occupational Health Nurse), University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa (1995)
BSc - University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa (1995)
MSc - University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa (2004)
 

Previous research done in Haydom area (Title of thesis):
None
 

Current research or planned research in Haydom area or related to Haydom:
Li 

Contact information:
ved experience of parental loss in residents of Haydom village (PhD research)
 

e-mail:able4@btinternet.com
Postal address: Haydom Lutheran Hospital, P.O.Mbulu, Manyara Region, Tanzania
 

Publications:

• Savage, A. “IV drugs: assessing pupils in Botswana”. 1992. Nursing Standard 6: 35. 29 – 32. Research project to determine the effect of targeted teaching on pupils’ ability to calculate drug dosages and drip rates accurately.
• Savage, A. “Providing nursing care for a Chagga client of Tanzania.” 2002. Journal of Transcultural Nursing 13: 3. 248 – 253. Transcultural research to identify culturally congruent care patterns for members of the Chagga tribe.
• Gosling, R. Mbatia, R. Savage, A. Mulligan, J-A, and Reyburn, H. “Prevalence of hospital-acquired infections in a tertiary referral hospital in northern Tanzania”. 2003. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. 97:1. 69 - 73.
• Mnzava, M. & Savage, A. “Tanzanian student nurses’ perceptions of their clinical experience”. 2005. Tanzania Health Research Bulletin 7:2. 94 – 97.
• Savage, A. "Health Beliefs of the urban Pares of Moshi, Tanzania." 2005. Curationis. November edition. 

Professional presentations:

• Presentations to clinical conference at KCMC Hospital:
• Effective use of visual aids (25.3.1998)
• Nursing process (14.7.99)
• Infection control 1. (22.5.2002)
• Evidence based midwifery (28.8.2002)
• Infection control 2. (28.5.2003) 

Presentations to joint lecture at Haydom Lutheran Hospital:

• Evidence based wound care for Haydom (Dec 2004)
• Handwashing (January 2005)
• Use of personal protective equipment (March 2005)
• Patient allocation (May 2005)
• Client Service Charter (May 2005)
• Prevention of pressure sores (June 2005)
• Stillbirths (August 2005) 

Work dissemination:
Copy of Masters thesis to library at Haydom Lutheran Hospital