Sixteen GPHC nurses graduate from cardiac care programme

Some the cardiac nurses who received their certification on Wednesday evening during the simple graduation exercise at Cara Lodge. Seated in front of them are (from left to right): Dr. Wayne Warnica, Co-director, GPACC Programme; Dr Karen Then, University of Calgary Instructor; CEO of the GPHC Brigadier George Lewis; Deputy CEO of the GPHC Elizabeth Gonsalves; Assistant Director of Nursing Celeste Gordon; and Registrar, Cardiology Unit, GPHC Dr. Terrence Haynes.

The service being offered by the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) has been boosted with the addition of 16 cardiac care nurses, who received their certification on Wednesday evening during a ceremony at Cara Lodge.

The graduates are the first cohort of nurses to complete the Cardiac Intensive Care Nursing Programme, which began last year. The programme is part of the collaboration between the GPH, the Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, the University of Calgary and the Guyana Programme to Advance Cardiac Care (GPACC) to improve cardiac care in Guyana.

Dr. Karen Then, University of Calgary Instructor for the CICU nursing programme, said in her remarks said there is both huge success and huge potential at the CICU.