Close to 600 nursing students have undergone a process of orientation and are ready to commence the professional nursing and nursing assistant training programmes offered by the Ministry of Health.This move, according to Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy,China Jerseys Cheap, marks the largest single entry ever in the history of nursing education, both locally and in the Caribbean. He related that the development comes as part of efforts to expand the intake of nursing students at the country’s nursing schools – Georgetown School of Nursing, New Amsterdam School of Nursing and the Charles Roza School of Nursing. At the same time measures are being put in place to modernise the way nursing education is delivered.The intent, the Minister said, is to upgrade and modernise the facilities even as efforts are made to transform the style of lessons delivery by incorporating the distance mode.“A lot of lectures need not be delivered in person but even when it is delivered in person the teaching style could be enhanced by having lectures on CDs. This is the way that we are moving the nursing schools and indeed I am negotiating right now for many of these lectures to be available on CDs,” the Minister disclosed.He revealed that at the moment many nursing schools in the United States,Cheap Jerseys Store, for instance, have moved almost fully towards delivery of lectures with the aid of CDs, followed by interactive sessions with nursing students,Cheap Jerseys China, so that there is no longer the need for extensive note taking.As a result there is an urgent need for persons to become better acquainted with the digital way of learning. In light of this, persons accessing programmes will have to become computer literate.In fact, Minister within the Health Ministry,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, Dr Bheri Ramsaran, has speculated that by the next intake of nursing students, a request might very well be made for potential students to be computer literate.He related that even as efforts are made to modernise, the Ministry is currently working towards upgrading the libraries within the various nursing schools. At the moment,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, Minister Ramsaran said that measures are in the pipeline to transform the Charles Roza Nursing School to a more modern facility.“With the help of PAHO and the Ministry we are going to upscale research facilities from a simple traditional library to a resource centre.” A recent donation from PAHO which included a quantity of computers is expected to boost this initiative.“We have been boasting about the infrastructure that we are building and the amount of people we are training for this now. This will make that training, quality, sustainable, modern and user friendly – that is what we are doing and I am happy to note that the nursing schools have been given a significant amount of this equipment.”In the meantime, the Ministry of Health has also been directing its attention to other staffers, who according to Minister Ramsaran have missed the digital age. And these levels of workers, he said, are not only the nurses but other health and auxiliary workers.And several have already been able to benefit from computer classes which are being made available to them free of cost.According to the Minister, “we acknowledge that we can’t give them a raise but we are giving them a non-salaried incentive.”But though the Ministry of Health has been able to acquire its own training manual,Cheap NFL Authentic Jerseys, the venture, the Minister said, is being done in collaboration with the Ministry of Education.It has already been extended to workers in the city and on the Essequibo and will be afforded other staffers in other administrative regions. |