Programmes aimed at boosting HMCs nursing credentials

By Noimot Olayiwola/Staff Reporter Around 400 paediatric nursing leaders during a Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) have attended programmes aimed during upgrading their skills as well as expertise as part of skeleton to ensure tall quality services for patients, especially during a upcoming New Childrens Hospital. One of such programmes was a two-day 1st Symposium for Paediatric Nursing Leaders: Leading Our Future Through Change as well as Innovation hold during a Hajar auditorium by HMC in partnership with Toronto-based SickKids Hospital. A number of nursing leaders from HMC attended a symposium as participants as well as as speakers including two international experts Inter-professional practice arch as well as arch helper senior manager during a Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto Margaret Keatings, as well as University of Pennsylvania Medical Centre arch helper senior manager as well as Hospital of a University of Pennsylvania associate senior manager director Dr Victoria L Rich. HMC Nursing Department senior manager director Dr Nabila al-Meer mentioned that a corporation aims to be recognized by an awarding body called Magnet, saying: Magnet recognition (is explanation of) excellence in nursing practice as well as it is the vision to be recognized as (having attained) Magnet status. This takes in between three to five years. Its a whole HMC direction. Once you achieve this status, you will be recognized in a region as well as internationally that you have been a centre of nursing excellence. She pronounced around 7,000 nurses have been currently working during HMC. At present, as you have been expanding, about 94-96% of the nurses have been recruited from abroad. So you have in between 4-6% Qatari nurses. Also, you have a little 100 nursing students in University of Calgary-Qatar now. And you have been also trying to affiliate with other educational institutions to start specialisation in nursing certification. So, you might start with cancer programme during first then you will expand to many other specialties in nursing such as paediatric, medical, surgical, emergency, midwifery as well as mental health. Dr al-Meer pronounced that a centre of nursing excellence, a section that will help HMC to attain Magnet status, is in a works. Apart from sharing the success stories of a nursing leadership during a HMC, you also organised this workshop to seek ways of improving paediatric care by engaging as well as up-scaling a skills of the nursing staff, which is one of a main reasons you have been partnering with a SickKids, New Childrens Hospital project Nursing director Mariam Nooh al-Mutawa pronounced yesterday. Corporate Nursing Administration assistant senior manager director Dr Badriya Abdulla al-Lenjawi noted that a overall objective of upgrading a skills of nursing leaders was to ensure studious satisfaction. Our aim is to inspire best practice as well as develop competent nurses, who will deliver services that will lead to studious satisfactions as well as you goal to be able to achieve this in partnership with a SickKids, she said.

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