By Sibille Buehlmann | Rehabilitation Unit Manager
As mentioned many times in our reports, education is the key to success in our rehabilitation unit in Haiti.
During the summer months, we usually see less patients in our out-patient clinic which gives us more time to focus on advancing our staff. We have introduced new assessments into our admissions/discharge process and are training our staff on how to use them. This will make it possible for us to better track and calculate our patient outcomes. It will help us see where we stand compared to other rehabilitation units in the country but also compared to international partners. We have also had different volunteers teach our physical therapists how to improve their therapeutic skills to be able to treat our patients even better.
But at our hospital, we do not only focus on our own staff. We partner with different schools from the area, specifically nursing and therapy, and host their students during their internships in our different departments.
Because rehabilitation medecine is still very new to the Haitian medical system, it is even more important that these young professionals learn about what we do. They are the ones making the difference when it comes to finding new patients and referring them and also passing on their knowledge to their peers.
Thank you so much for your support.
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By Sibille Buehlmann | Rehabilitation Unit Manager
By Sibille Buehlmann | Rehabilitation Manager
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