Workload-Based Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) for Health Tutors in two Public Hearth Training Institutions in Uganda

ABSTRACT

Ugandan public Schools of Clinical Officers (SOCOs) face a serious problem of understaffing with qualified tutors; despite there being sufficient numbers in the country. Poor staffing of training institutions affects the quality of the graduates produced by the schools and eventually dictates poor quality provided by the health workers. This study set out to determine the workload-based staffing needs for two schools; determine the effects of understaffing and coping mechanisms adopted by the schools and the students. It was a descriptive cross-sectional study using the Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) methodology developed by the WHO; conducted in June 2006 in Mbale and Gulu SOCOs