Category: Caribbean
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How to finance health education in Developing Countries
Read in Club Africa from KLM/Air France about the initiative of the Health Workforce Foundation to beat the lack of knowledge and skills in Healthcare here!
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Rehabilitation Nursing Training in Sint Maarten succesfully closed
Friday February 6th the Rehabilitation Nursing training for the Rehabilitation department of the White Yellow Cross in Philipsburg, Sint Maarten ended with a graduation ceremony in the presence of the WYC management. The course was spread over two years and consisted of ten modules: Cardiology and BLS-AED Psychosocial Healthcare Patterns Amputations Cardiac and Lung Diseases…
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Training Spinal Cord Injury at Sint Maarten’s Home of White Yellow Cross Foundation
From 17 – 21 November 2014 Froukje Johanna Bijlsma trained a group of nurses working at the White and Yellow Cross Foundation on Sint Maarten (Caribbean) in Rehabilitation Nursing. Focus was on patients who are suffering from a spinal cord injury (SCI). Apart from basic knowledge on anatomy and physiology of the spinal…
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Refresher week of the Emergency Medical Care course conducted on Saba
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…
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Nursing Expert Erik van Roon visited St. Eustatius
From 8 September until 12 September MeduProf-S nursing trainer Erik van Roon visited St Eustatius with the aim to prepare a Triage course. This preparation took place in cooperation with the Queen Beatrix Medical Center for the Out Patient Department. Triage is the process of deciding which patients should be treated first based on how…
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Successful refresher week Emergency Medical Care in St. Eustatius.
From 14 July until 18 July 2014 MeduProf-S nursing experts Ruben Verlangen and Erik van Roon visited St Eustatius. They conducted the refresher week of the Emergency Medical Care course in the Queen Beatrix Medical Center. There were a lot of scenario’s related to trauma and non-trauma situations and all of them were recorded on…
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Hygiene and food safety program conducted on Saba
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…
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Refresher week Emergency Medical Care conducted on Saba
From 14 April until 17 April 2014 MeduProf-S nursing experts Gwen Aerts 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…
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Rehabilitation Nursing program at White Yellow Cross, St. Maarten.
In the week from 31 march – 4 april 2014, MeduProf-S expert Froukje Johanna Bijlsma provided the module CVA/Stroke Care in the Rehabilitation Nursing program for the White Yellow Cross, Sint Martins Home Rehabilitation Centre on St. Maarten. The training focused on the design of a Care Plan for Rehabilitation Nursing and the difference between…
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Successful Hospital Assessment on Aruba
MeduProf-S presented on the 5th of April the conclusions drawn from an assessment of the nursing and care staff of Dr. Horacio E. Oduber Hospital on Aruba to the management and other key persons . The assessment consisted of a theory and a skills test and “in depth” interviews based on scenario’s. The participants all…