GREAT BAY: --- Head of the Ambulance Department Cylred Richardson is very pleased that two certified ambulance nurses namely, Khalilah Blijden and Tynisha Arrendell, have received the opportunity to attend Intensive Step-Up Course 2009 currently taking place in Curacao.
The course has been organized by the Netherlands Antilles Foundation for Clinical Higher Education (NASKHO). The course, which started on September 7, runs until September 12 in the Ballroom of the Renaissance Hotel.
“The course focuses on a variety of topics in emergency medicine and participants will receive hands-on skill and simulation during the entire course,” Head of the Ambulance Dept. Cylred Richardson told the Government Information Service (GIS) on Tuesday.
Nurses will be studying some of the following course subjects also referred to as skill stations, Mega Code (practicing airway), Trauma Code (peak flow), Insertion and maintenance of tubes and catheters, Fundoscopy and small procedures (small surgical procedures and stitches).
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“The topics being addressed are of importance to the ambulance department certainly in the field of emergency medicine. Upon their return, the two nurses would be requested to make various presentations to the remaining operational staff members of the department,” Richardson said on Tuesday.
