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Nov 15, 2013 News
By Javone Vickerie
A total of nineteen nurses were yesterday certified in the field of fetal health supervision following a five-day training course facilitated by a benevolent Canadian organisation, Guyana Burn and Health Care (GB&HC).
Addressing the graduates at yesterday’s ceremony held at the Multipurpose Hall, GPHC Compound, Vice President of the GB&HC, Pamela Harakh, said that during the programme which is called the” Neonatal Resuscitation”, nurses were each given a 14-chapter textbook to study for a six-month period.
The nurses were drawn from Georgetown, Suddie, Linden, Skeldon and New Amsterdam.
Harakh explained that after the six-month study period, the students would have had to write an online exam before they were certified for neonatal care. All nurses possessed passes at the online exam.
The Vice President told Kaieteur News that the nurses are now certified by the Canadian Pediatric Society. She added that the training has been an ongoing exercise for the past three years.
“This is the third batch that have had their certification, so in all it has been approximately 50 nurses that have received this training over the three years we’ve been here,” Harakh said.
She explained that neonatal resuscitation is a basic exercise done by nurses to help revive infants if problems arise at birth.
When asked about any excellent reports from the nurses who previously completed the course, Harakh said, “I think what is actually happening is because we are so small, nobody knows that we’re even here doing the training, and it’s hard to evaluate which nurses have made a difference, because we have just kept going”.
Harakh thanked the organization’s corporate sponsor Scotiabank.
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