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!
Category: General News
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Saba EMC Refresher
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax_image=”” visibility=”” css_animation=”” center_row=”” typography_style=”” column_spacing=”” tablet_fullwidth_cols=”” bg_style=”” parallax=”” parallax_mobile=”” parallax_style=”” parallax_direction=”” video_bg=”” video_bg_overlay=”” border_style=””][vc_column width=”1/1″ style=”” visibility=”” css_animation=”” typo_style=”” drop_shadow=”” bg_style=”” border_style=””][vc_column_text]We’ve had another week of training on the beautiful island of Saba. A week with dedicated and very enthusiastic students! The training included trauma, cardio/EKG, refresher basic life support, pediatric basic life support and obstetrics. The students were provided with some difficult scenarios such as; trauma amputation of limbs and complications during childbirth. We’ve also made a start with CRM and human factors. And we discussed the key strategies and the reasons for evaluation and debriefing after difficult scenarios. Our compliments to the all the staff and students for making this week successful.[/vc_column_text][vcex_image_grid grid_style=”default” columns=”2″ posts_per_page=”-1″ thumbnail_link=”none” lightbox_caption=”true” custom_links_target=”_self” img_size=”wpex_custom” img_crop=”center-center” image_ids=”7256,7255″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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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
- Brain Trauma and CVA
- Neurological Diseases
- Orthopaedic and Trauma Caused Problems
- Paraplegia
- Chronic and Acute Pain
- Patient Safety and Quality of Care.
The last module was about Patient Safety and Quality of Care and was carried out by the quality expert of MeduProf-S.
He handed over the certificates to the candidates who rated this module with extremely good/excellent.
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MeduProf-S at BNR
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]On 9th of February MeduProf-S managing director Willem van Prooijen was one of the guests at BNR radiostation. Here you can listen to the interview (in Dutch language). (more…)
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The Netherlands again Nr. 1 in Healthcare!
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]The European Health Consumer Index
The EHCI 2014 total ranking shows The Netherlands again widening the gap to country #2 from 19 points in 2013 to 43 points in 2014, (in 2012, the margin was 50 points), scoring 898 2 points out of 1000, an EHCI all time high. Beginning from Switzerland (855 points) down, the EHCI 2014 shows competition at the top getting much harder. Bronze medallists are Norway at 851 points; the very high per capita spend on healthcare services finally paying off! Finland (4th, 846 points) has made a remarkable advance, and seems to have rectified its traditional waiting time problems! Denmark (5th, 836 points) has shown a continuous rise since the start of the comparisons. Some eastern European EU member systems are doing surprisingly well, particularly the Czech Republic and Estonia, considering their much smaller healthcare spend in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) adjusted dollars per capita. The FYR Macedonia is making the most remarkable advance in the EHCI scoring of any country in the history of the Index, from 27th to 16th place, largely due to more or less eliminating waiting lists by implementing their real time e-Booking system! Some key conclusions Consumer and patient rights are improving. In a growing number of European countries there is healthcare legislation explicitly based on patient rights and a functional access to your own medical record is becoming standard. Hospital/clinic catalogues with quality ranking used to be confined to two – three countries for years; the 2014 number of nine countries hopefully is a sign that something is happening in this area, supporting active consumer choice.
About the EHCI
The Euro Health Consumer Index (EHCI), the independent monitoring of healthcare in 36 countries, published its 8th edition January 27, 2015. Since 2006 this comparison of key values in healthcare, taking the patient and consumer point of view, has improved the understanding of European healthcare, empowered patients and helped addressing weaknesses. EHCI, and a wide range of disease-specific studies produced by the Health Consumer Powerhouse Ltd. (HCP) set standards for what could and should be achieved by modern, well-serving healthcare. The 50 Index productions are freely available at www.healthpowerhouse.com. The EHCI 2014 has been supported by unrestricted grants from Medicover S.A., Belgium, and New Direction Foundation, Belgium[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] -
Why Surplus has chosen MeduProf-S
In november 2014 a team of MeduProf-S visited Surplus (an elderly care organization) to train their staff in hand hygiene. Why they have chosen MeduProf-S you will see here!
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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 cord and nervous system, the different aspects of pathophysiology of the SCI and the resulting consequence on Rehabilitation Nursing were discussed.
Course topics:
– Communication skills – Knowledge on different types of coping
– Recognize Depression
– The importance of prevention on Pressure Ulcers in patients with SCI
– Ergonomic skills – bedside teaching – positioning in bed
– Assessment of Specific Nursing Care in patients with SCI
– Rehabilitation Care Plan – how to conduct a care plan and present it
– Bowel and Bladder Function and Management in patients with SCI
– Practicing with materials available on bowel and bladder management
– Educational skills – Simulation setting
The group has been very enthusiastic on receiving new knowledge and skills and we were informed that they already started to use the new skills in the week that followed after the training.
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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 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.Both the participants and trainers were exited with the learning results of this week!
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Operating Theatre training conducted for the second group of nurses in Alexandria Egypt
From 9 – 13 November 2014 Mrs. Marja Versantvoort delivered the first module of 2 on OT nursing training for general nurses in Alexandria. The main topics were hygiene and basic principles of the OT room. The group of general nurses are trained to become a circulating nurse in the OT. In several workshops the participants could experience how devices work. They learned how to anticipate when something unusually happens with the devices. For example; how to prevent burning wounds by using electro surgery.
Through an interactive exercise the students were able to list 40 instruments by name, purpose and applicability. Lifetime learning is very important because surgery innovates very fast. Students were trained how to use the Internet to continue learning and exploring after this course. Each student can now find the latest guidelines and operation videos.
In the second module of the training program for these nurses, they will be trained as scrub nurses. In this week we already made a start with the hand wash en hand scrub procedure.
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Module 3 of 4 of A&E training conducted in Borg el Arab (12 Oct – 16 Oct)
The third week of the A&E course was delivered in Borg el Arab Egypt. Eleven (11) dedicated nurses were present to follow this third week of the training program. During this week we continued the program with the leading topic: the ABCDE method.Topics: cardiac rhythms, disability and exposure.
Most important aspect in this training program is to teach the participants how to work with the ABCDE method. To achieve this goal we trained scenario cases related to the topics: cardiac rhythms, disability and exposure. A theoretical test (20 questions) was done on the third- and discussed on the fourth day. This time we were able to train practical skills at the ICU ward with the (adult) manikin. In course week 4 (the final week of this training program) the focus will be mainly at skills training. Case scenarios will be trained every day in relation to diseases and disorders, vital signs and therapy. A theoretical tests is taken at the second day and a practical test at the 2 final days. In the practical test all the participants must show their skills in: CPR-, bag valve mask ventilation- and a case scenario. At the end of the training program the participants will be rewarded with a certificate!
