Miss Olivia Nyarko Mensah
PhD(c), MPhil, MA, BAN, Dip.Ed, RN, PN, FGCNM, FSSTI
SHORT PROFILE:
Miss Olivia Nyarko Mensah (Rev. Mrs. Olivia Eshun) is a highly skilled nurse educator, currently a lecturer at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. She is a consultant, practitioner, and leader in Maternal Newborn and Child and Reproductive Health.
Her teaching career and clinical practice span over 21 years. Olivia is currently a Fellow by examination from the West African Postgraduate College, a Fellow of the Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives under Division of Midwifery and Paediatrics, a PhD candidate, and holds the following credentials: MPhil (Nursing), MA (Educational Leadership), BA (Nursing with Psychology) and Diploma in Education.
Professionally, Olivia is a Registered Pediatric Nurse and also affiliated to the Nursing and Midwifery Training College, Kumasi, Ghana as a full-time lecturer (Nurse Educator). Olivia is a proud Fellow of the Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives (GCNM) and an adjunct lecturer for specialist Training in the Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives. She is a member of the Chi Omicron-at-Large Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau. She has been a lead faculty at the GCNM/ SickKids-Canada PNEP, Kumasi site. Olivia has been instrumental in various faculty trainings and in many curriculum developments, implementations, evaluations, and reviews. She has contributed tremendously to the provision of evidence-based basic and specialist training. Olivia’s area of expertise is in quality improvement, maternal and child health nursing and midwifery practice and education, hospital communications, and interactions. Prior to becoming a nurse educator, she served as a Nurse-Clinician in some districts in Ghana and continues to serve. To further sharpen her practical skills in Paediatric, Neonatal and Adolescent health Nursing unit of the also in Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Ghana. She has been involved in a variety of collaborative research projects. For more than a decade, Olivia has been influential in leading and coordinating preceptorship, coaching, and mentorship programs. She has hosted several training programmes and workshops on nursing and midwifery in Ghana and beyond.