PRONTO International is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving maternal and neonatal outcomes by providing low-cost, highly realistic obstetric and neonatal emergency simulation training for interprofessional teams in resource-limited settings around the world and creating low-tech and low-cost simulation curricula and technologies.
PRONTO International Mission:We aim to optimize care during birth. We develop and implement innovative training strategies for health care providers that act as a catalyst for individual, team, and system change.
We accomplish our mission by:
- Providing low-cost, highly realistic obstetric and neonatal emergency simulation training for inter-professional teams in resource-limited settings around the world.
- Promoting kind, dignified, and culturally responsive care of women and babies through interactive training modules that facilitate group discussion and self-discovery.
- Assisting local teams in the diagnosis of system barriers and in identifying achievable strategies to improve patient safety and birth outcomes.
- Contributing expertise to the field of low-resource simulation and facilitated debriefing.
- Participating in implementation research to refine training modules that improve outcomes for mothers, babies and healthcare providers.
At our core we value:
Innovation – providing trainings that use low-tech highly realistic simulation to address the real challenges in caring for the needs of both mother and baby in resource – limited birth facilities.
Justice – respecting the dignity of all mothers and babies by promoting kind and humanized care during birth.
Humility – honoring the contextual complexities of local groups by providing culturally responsive trainings and support.
Sustainability – creating educational experiences that are cost-effective, accessible, and locally adaptable and by promoting autonomy through trainer education and training material distribution.
Collaboration – focusing on the importance of respect and team work to enable interprofessional healthcare teams to function at their best.
What we do
We are involved in:
- Providing low-cost, highly realistic obstetric and neonatal emergency simulation training for interprofessional teams in resource-limited settings around the world.
- Promoting kind, dignified, and culturally responsive care of women and babies through interactive training modules that facilitate group discussion and self-discovery.
- Assisting local teams in the diagnosis of system barriers and in identifying achievable strategies to improve patient safety and birth outcomes.
- Contributing expertise to the field of low-resource simulation and facilitated debriefing.
- Participating in implementation research to refine training modules that improve outcomes for mothers, babies and healthcare providers.
- Developing low-cost, low-tech simulation technologies, simulators, and curriculum.