Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony told participants in a Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) session that these sessions are a way to ensure that nurses and midwives are kept up-to-date with medical information, a release from the Ministry of Health stated yesterday.
“So it’s a very important thing because medicine is a very dynamic area and daily there are concepts that are being changed, new information that is being made available, discoveries and unless we have sessions where we are keeping ourselves informed very quickly; we’ll be outdated. So the CNE sessions are geared to do that,” he explained. The CNE session was hosted by the Nurses and Midwives Council, Guyana, at the Ministry’s conference room on Brickdam, Georgetown.
According to the release, this CNE session, which was offered both in person and on a virtual platform, commenced yesterday and will conclude today. Some discussions focused primarily on Contraceptives and Patient Safety. Participants of these sessions will be awarded four credit hours, which will be added to their contact hours of training needed each year to re-register.