| – GNANurses are important and may even be considered an indispensable asset to a thriving health sector; hence every effort must be engaged to ensure that the nursing service is provided by capable and aptly qualified persons.This notion has been amplified by members of the Guyana Nurses Association (GNA) who have accentuated the need for nurses’ performance to be improved even as Nurses Week is observed.Under the theme,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, ‘Quality, serving communities: Nurses leading chronic care’, Nurses Week is being observed (May 9 through 15) on a national scale and will be characteristic of a variety of activities.But according to the GNA members, in order for nursing to be positively transformed, there is an urgent need for the nursing profession to be fully managed by nurses, a state of affairs that is currently not obtained locally.This situation, the GNA believes, leaves nurses with a sense of inability to offer valuable input to the service they are tasked with providing.“Nurses understand nursing intimately and they can better represent nursing issues…There is a consensus that nurses should be allowed to manage nursing. Lots of time it has been expressed that there is a feeling that we are not given the opportunity or the chance to manage our affairs for our self and we would like to see that change,” a statement from the GNA said.According to the GNA, there is a cry within the ranks of nurses today that their service is not being valued enough. This,Cheap Hockey Jerseys, the Association has underscored,Wholesale Jerseys From China, was especially emphasised when a study of nurses’ migration was unveiled earlier this year.The study which covered nurses’ migration over a 10-year span, examined the attrition rate during training and after training. It sought to uncover the possible reasons for their option to leave. Based on the findings,Cheap Jerseys From China, it was deduced that nurses leave for a number of reasons. “Talking with colleagues who migrate and who stay in touch with you, they express some of the reasons that they leave and it is not always because of remuneration,…job satisfaction is a big thing,” one GNA member emphasised.“People would think that money would be the thing but lots of persons who really love nursing migrate because there is, to them, little job satisfaction. Then there is money that is the other factor and people migrate because of personal reasons that are held privately.”Meanwhile,Wholesale Jerseys, the GNA has echoed concerns about the attitude of some nurses, particularly in the public health sector. It is believed that a nurse should possess qualities that incorporate a caring, compassionate and tolerant nature, a predisposition that is today lacking by some. “What we need to do is have more emphasis on nursing and our attitude towards clients or patients. To keep talking about the values and so on…What you find now is that we have many complaints coming from hospitals, health centres about nurses’ attitudes.”It has been recognised by the GNA that since communication plays an important aspect in nursing care, every measure must be put in place to ensure that from the level of a student, nurses must learn to inculcate expressions and other demeanours that are becoming of a proper nurse.“Our nurses need to develop these attitudes. We have people coming from different environments into the nursing profession and some of them you don’t see the quality coming out. With training and as they go through the three or two years training, we hope we can come to that level where they could communicate and be the nurse that they should be.”And should nurses not inculcate the desired traits, a move to incorporate sanctions should be considered, the GNA has asserted.“Discipline has to be an important factor…because some of the same nurses who work in the public sector and behave in an undesirable way,Cheap Adidas NHL Jerseys, they go to the private hospitals and they operate in a different way altogether….because they know they could be fired.”Nurses Week was kicked into motion yesterday with a Church Service at the Guyana Nurses’ Association Hall.Other high points of the week will include Community Outreach activities which will be characteristic of nurses going out in the field to render nursing care to members of the public. Strategic educational sessions for nurses are also slated for this week, according to Nurse Bond.This year has in fact been designated ‘International year of the Nurse’ and is also the centennial year of the death of the founder of modern nursing – Florence Nightingale (1820-1910).The GNA, in its newsletter, has amplified that “today is a testing time for nursing and nursing care as the negative public image of the profession continues to lower its status and demoralise many nurses in the country.”According to the GNA, nursing was and still is considered a noble profession around the world. However, the entity has highlighted that the attitude and care provided by some nurses have contributed to the negative perception of the public to the profession. |
