Last Updated on November 1, 2022, 4:13 AM AST by Anthony Morris
CPR Solutions, a national training centre for the American Heart Association, is organizing training sessions for the Medical professionals of St Kitts and Nevis working at the Joseph N. France General Hospital, Pogson, and Mary Charles Hospitals.
The organization is holding these training sessions in collaboration with Ross University and the ministry of health of St Kitts and Nevis. Dr Aljay Pierre coordinated the effort at the end of Ross University. He serves as the Director of Health Services at Ross University.
CPR Solutions has an extensive network of certified instructors across the United States. They offer a comprehensive range of CPR training classes for medical professionals and other healthcare workers.
Under the effort, Approximately two hundred healthcare workers from St Kitts and Nevis, including 50 medical doctors, will be trained in Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS).
According to the Director of Health Institutions, Dr Jenson Morton, this effort is in line with Prime Minister Dr Terrance Drew’s pledge to improve health care quality throughout the Federation.
According to Dr Morton, “The sessions are aimed to improve the quality of health care delivered by the staff of the JNF General Hospital and the team in the Ministry of Health.
Further, The Director of Health Institutions states that the goal is to ensure that these staff members get certified in BLS/ACLS/PALS and renew this certification every two years. This is part of our attempt to get our medical institutions (of St Kitts and Nevis) adequately accredited. “
For the JNF General Hospital to gain accreditation, staff members must be fully trained and up to standard to offer the basic life support, advanced cardiac life support, and pediatric life support.
Basic Life Support training ensures that participants can quickly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, appropriate ventilations, and provide early use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED).
Dr Morton states this training is only one of the many efforts implemented to improve healthcare quality across St Kitts and Nevis.
Pediatric Life Support is aimed towards healthcare providers responding to emergencies in infants and children and personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive and critical care units.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support is a set of life-saving skills and protocols extending beyond Basic Life Support (BLS) to provide urgent treatment to cardiac emergencies such as cardiac arrest, stroke, myocardial infarction, and other conditions.
Dr Morton further stated that There are several other initiatives that the Ministry of Health will undertake in the upcoming months. These initiatives include Customer Service Training and additional specialization training for the nurses.
The Ministry of Health of St Kitts and Nevis will “revamp its entire financial scheme and system. The National Health Insurance scheme is also a part of the system.
Other expected changes include the transformation of the administrative structure of the hospital, the outfitting of the other hospitals, [Pogson and Mary Charles] with permanent medical staff, and other improvements, including small laboratories and small X-ray facilities, which will come onstream bit by bit”.
The Cabinet of Ministers has already started discussing the National Health Insurance preliminary report. They aim to make it a reality for the Citizens of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis
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