The proclamation of 2020 as the Year of the Nurse is an unprecedented support to the fundamental work of these professionals, which in Las Tunas are four thousand 266, in different categories, more than three thousand 100 with university education and 218 specialists.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- In this province, Secondary Health Care institutions host most of these health givers, who are offered various options for professional improvement, while more than 800 students are trained in nursing through different modalities of study.
Alicia Rodríguez Rodríguez, Head of the Nursing Section in the territory, explained that in order to maintain the nurse-patient indicator, especially in risk services such as the Intensive Care Units, Neonatology, Childbirth Room and others, they guarantee constant training.
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Year of the Nurse and the Midwife 2020
Rodríguez said that the Ministry of Public Health recently approved three specialties associated with the Mother and Child Care Program, Intensive Care and Emergencies, and Primary Health Care, which is motivation for those interested.
This official emphasized that the Nursing Section, together with the Maternal and Child Department and the Postgraduate Directorate of the province, offers training courses and diplomas. For example, in the intensive care for adults and children, the management of newborns under 1,500 grams, obstetric nursing, nursing care for the management of pregnant women in the Red Code and training of nurses for formal and humanized births.
The training of nurses for respectful and humanized births is directed, above all, to those who work in delivery rooms, prenatal care, and immediate physiological and surgical care, an international project in which this eastern Cuban territory is included.
In 2020, one of the priorities of Las Tunas Nursing will be the Maternal and Child Care Program, which aims to improve the training of personnel in order to improve the quality of care for women, particularly during pregnancy and childbirth.
Las Tunas also maintains its international commitments in this area of health with 425 professionals from over 1,500 employees in 47 countries.
This year is dedicated to the professionals of the nursing and the obstetricians to raise awareness among society and the world political leaders of the need to bet on nursing as a profession to reach the Sustainable Development Goals and universal health coverage.
