Abeer Hospital conducts Continuing Nursing Education programme
MUSCAT: Abeer Hospital at Ruwi, run and managed by Abeer Medical Group, a leading healthcare provider in the Middle East is actively engaging in sedulous healthcare educational endeavours that revolve around the notion ‘learning is the key to success.’
In keeping with this view, the hospital organised a conference on patient safety for the nurses in Muscat as part of CNE (Continuing Nursing Education) programme. This is the first-of-its-kind conducted for the nurses in the private healthcare sector of Oman.
“Abeer Hospital recognises the importance of providing quality nursing education. Nursing as a profession requires continuous improvement and skill upgradation, hence the importance of CNE,” quoted Alungal Mohammed, president, Abeer Medical Group.
The conference was a daylong event, inaugurated by Dr Mahmood Nasar Al Rahibi, Senior Consultant - Emergency Medicine and Education Supervisor-cumFaculty, Oman Medical Specialty Board. The other dignitaries who attended the event were Dr Zainab Al Balushi, Head of Infection Prevention and Control - Directorate General of Health Services, Muscat, Jamsheer Hamza, director, Abeer Medical Group (Oman), Dr Sukumaran Vengail, Medical Director, Abeer Hospital, Ruwi and Bindhu Varghese, Chief Nursing Officer, Abeer Hospital, Ruwi.
Various sessions were taken to address patient safety effectively from the time patients step in until they leave the hospital.
Sessions varied from how a patient could be identified and the impact of wrongly identifying a patient to the best practices in patient safety. Dr Zaibnab addressed the gathering with the topics ‘Hospital Acquired Infection’, ‘Importance of Hand Washing and Hand Hygiene’ and ‘Biomedical Waste Management’.
“Healthcare errors impact on one in every ten patients around the world. The World Health Organisation calls patient safety an endemic concern,” said Dr Sukumaran while enumerating on the topic ‘Correct Site, Correct Procedure and Correct Patient Surgery’.