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Nov 26, 2017 News
Eleven nurses from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) have graduated as the first batch of the Post Anaesthetic Care Unit (PACU). The graduation ceremony was held on Friday.
GPHC’s Chief Executive Officer, Brigadier (Ret’d) George Lewis, urged the graduating nurses to remember that their main concern is the hospital’s patients.
“We’re here to serve our patients, without our patients there is no need for any of us.”
Lewis also addressed the matter of discrimination against patients by health care workers.
“If a patient drives in the Georgetown Public Hospital in a Land Cruiser and another patient walks in the Georgetown Hospital in rags, then I do not expect that we would give more attention to the patient with the Land Cruiser and no attention to the one in rags. They both deserve treatment and they both should be treated in the same manner,” Lewis stated.
The CEO also said that persons have “lost faith in GPHC and prefer to go to private institutions to receive health care”. He continued that GPHC provides excellent health care services and that work needs to be done to improve the image of the hospital and rebuild a good relationship with the public. “I think we can do that by how we interact with our patients. We have to ensure that our attitude towards them is one that makes them feel well,” Lewis emphasised. He urged the graduating class to treat patients in a manner that would make them want to return if they have future health issues.
Lewis continued to stress on the need for improvement, by saying that the nurses should also work on patient education as it regards medicine. “Patients should be told more about their medicine than just how much and how often it should be taken. They should be educated on what medications do and how they work.”
The CEO also urged the nurses to keep proper record management systems. He revealed that while speaking to some doctors and nurses recently at Industry, he was told that referred patients arrive at the clinics without charts or sometimes they have the charts, but it is not filled out efficiently by GPHC health care officials.
He said at times the Industry doctors and nurses would sometimes have to rerun tests and assess patients, and in some cases patients would be sent back to GPHC. He declared that it is a waste of money, because patients were already tested and it takes money to rerun tests. He said that some weeks ago he was able to give a court in England information on a patient that was at the hospital around 1995, because at that time there was a better record management system, and nurses should understand the importance of this.
“There is a legal responsibility to keep and track records and the current and future nurses should realize this,” he concluded.
Dr. Eyvette Martin, Registrar of the Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Unit of GPHC and Coordinator of PACU programme also delivered remarks. The programme, which started last July, included lectures, written and practical exams and training in “critical areas” such as anaesthesia and intensive care.
Dr. Martin explained that the students even did research papers that are being currently reviewed. The PACU nurses will have the task of rendering medical interventions, patient education and offering post-operative assistance to patients who have just come out of surgery.
The nurses had a chance to showcase that they are not just talented for providing health care at the ceremony. There was a song by Nurse Tappin, a poem by Nurse Cockfield, and a dramatic piece from a trio of nurses. The dramatic piece highlighted one of the main issues that Lewis addressed; the bad attitude of some nurses. The plot consisted of a nurse who was being rude to another nurse and a patient. The second nurse in the plot corrected the first and reminded her of what should be her conduct as it relates to patient care. Anika Cordis-Archer received an award for being one of the most outstanding students on the training. The other two recipients of awards were Dr. Martin and Dr. Andres Guibert Sigura, Consultant and Teacher for the PACU Programme.
The nurses that graduated were Anika Cordis-Archer, Althea Blaize, Velencia Cockfield, Jeny Henry, Fiona Leander, Olette Munroe, Melissa Melville, Beverly Josiah-McKenzie, Naudia Grant-Pyle, Chrisanna Rodrigues and Lacrisha Thompson.
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