By Maya Brownstein | Annual Giving Assistant
Nurse Thamar Julmiste (right), who attended the first neonatal and pediatric intensive care training, attends to a newborn in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at St. Therese Hospital in Hinche, Haiti.
Thank you so much for supporting Partners In Health/Zanmi Lasante and University Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti.
We are thrilled to share with you news of the latest training course in neonatal and pediatric intensive care at University Hospital.
The Hospital hosted this free, 24-week-long training for 26 nurses from around the country, who will receive certification from the Haitian government next month and be counted among Haiti's emergent group of neonatal and pediatric intensive care nurse specialists.
Currently in Haiti, for advanced training in areas other than midwifery or community health, students must travel outside of the country -- and many don't return. Consequently, Haiti faces a shortage of medical professionals with specialized skills. The University Hospital-hosted training course aims to correct this imbalance and ensure that Haiti's health system is comprised of medical professionals with a wide variety of specialities and expertises.
The guiding principle behind the training was, in the words of Marc Julmisse, University Hospital's chief nursing officer: "Everyone deserves the best level of care." His goal for participating clinicians is to develop specizlied skills and critical thinking tools to "become a valuable member of the patient care team." Nurse Thamar Julmiste, who participated in the inaugural training course, echoed this sentiment. "Nurses should take this training because with more nurses knowing [how to handle these situations], we will save more children. Our expectation is that you're going to be a leader."
None of this work would be possible without your generous support -- thank you!
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