Randy, Kate, and I descended on the unit today ( flight of the Valkyries playing). We were greeted by 22 babies, 2 nurses from the previous training group ( yes, they were the only nurses for all the babies on the unit) and 17 students. Randy took his tools and got right to work fixing all the CPAP and ventilator humidity chambers and alarms. We had our first intubation of the day in the first 30 minutes there (quite a welcoming ceremony!). Luckily the baby did quite well and I was impressed to see how far the unit has come in taking care of ventilated patients in the NICU (they used to ship them over to the adult ICU).
After our initiation to the unit we got to know the fabulous group of new students. They were very excited to learn and have great enthusiasm for sharing their new knowledge with colleagues from their base hospitals ( we have a few students each from New Amsterdam, Suddie, Linden, and Diamond along with Georgetown).
I was fortunate to get a meeting with the
Director of nursing for GPHC, Matron Curry. She was very happy with our program and hopes to get more nurses involved in the future. I appreciated her input and suggestions for improvement ( a 6 month internship) along with her vision for the future. I also scored a contact from the University of Guyana to hopefully get a certification program established to ensure sustainability of the program.
The rest of our afternoon flew by..Kate provided a little comfort to a very sick Trisomy 13 baby, Randy worked with Bennett, our biomedical guy, Dr. Mike helped with rounds and ventilation, and Cait set out to developmentally position every baby in the unit! We finally came back around 6pm, tired but excited for our week ahead.
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