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MeduProf-S expert Marja Versantvoort conducted a second week of the module Operation Theatre nursing. In the first week the participants learned how to become a running nurse in the operating theatre. This second week the training focussed on scrub nursing.
On the first day the topic was how to make protocols for surgery and how to use checklists. During a workshop in the operation theatre the surgical safety checklist from the WHO was used. Minimal invasive surgery was the subject of day two. This kind of surgery is really upcoming so special education is needed for the scrub nurses. After a lecture and workshops about minimal invasive surgery, they were able to use all the laparoscopic devices and became ready to assist laparoscopic surgery. After day three, the participants knew everything about the different use of incisions. There are many ways to do an incision. It is important to know which incision the surgeon will use to prepare the right instruments, devices and sutures. Therefore they also learned everything about the different sutures and the function of different kind of needles.
The subject of day four was to learn how to make a sterile field in the operation theatre and the participants draped each other in a workshop with sterilized cotton drapes. They also learned how to protect themselves against blood and radiation. The last lecture of this week was about general and local anaesthesia. It’s important that a scrub nurse can assist the anaesthesiologist. After two weeks of hard work by highly motivated students, it was no surprise that they all did very well during the exam.
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From 10 November until 14 November 2014 MeduProf-S nursing 
experts Ruben Verlangen and Erik van Roon visited Saba, the unspoiled Queen. They conducted the refresher week of the Emergency Medical Care course in the A.M. Edwards Medical Center. The participants were well prepared and that resulted in very effective training, teaching and discussions. The main topics, on request of the participants were Basic Life Support for adults, Paediatric Basic Life Support, changes in the approach of trauma patients related to cervical spine immobilization, nursing calculations and how to triage in a major accident. The ABCDE-approach for trauma and non-trauma patients was also refreshed and put into practice. A lot of practical skills were practiced together with some case scenarios.
In the third week of June MeduProf-S expert Pascal Driessen provided the Healthcare Foundation and the Honourable Henry Carlyle Every Home for the Elderly on Saba with a hygiene and food safety program. The program focussed at the implementation of a structured approach of hygiene. The training handled hygiene and food safety in the facilities of the clinic as well as concerning the storage, preparation and distribution of food in the clinic and the home. Most important training aspect was the improvement of the hygiene awareness of all staff concerned.
The training on Saba was followed by an HACCP (food safety control) implementation in the White Yellow Cross on Sint Maarten. Here MeduProf-S was asked to support the kitchen staff to comply with the strict rules on food safety as enforced by the inspection on public health and health care. Pascal Driessen provided the kitchen staff with up to date matrices and forms to plan and check the status of food and of the hygiene in the kitchen and storage rooms. Specific attention was laid on the handling of food during the distribution process. Discussions about hygiene and the background of food safety rules were perhaps even more important than the rules and procedures themselves. In this way the participants including the chef learned why and how to implement these rules. The last day was spent to reorganize kitchen and storage rooms according to the new insights. The kitchen staff felt in the end well equipped and has confidence in the implemented approach.
