Nurses, care assistants undergo paediatric training

Twenty-one nurses and six paediatric care assistants are the latest healthcare workers to benefit from training through the Paediatric Nursing Programme as part of a continuing effort to ensure a better child health care system at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The programme is a joint initiative of the Government of Guyana and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). According to a Government Information Agency (GINA) report, Sumiko Yoshida, Senior Volunteer and Paediatric Nurse Educator, lauded the hospital for the support she received throughout the two-month programme. Yoshida was also amazed by the dedication of nurses to the programme and said some nurses attended classes on their day off.

GINA noted that the training programme has been around since 2012 and a number of nurses have been trained since then. Two training sessions were also completed earlier this year, it added.

Yoshida said she looks forward to training another batch of nurses in 2015 through 2017 and in new courses: cardiac recognition, infant and child resuscitation, and paediatric critical care.

She said the goal of JIC is to improve the paediatric nursing services, the paediatric nursing educational training and improving the paediatric ward environment.