NO NURSING ASSISTANT OR SPECIALIST PROGS IN TT

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The National Nurses Association has called for an urgent meeting with Minister of Tertiary Education Prakash Persad, amid word that COSTAAT's Nursing Assistant Programme is yet to attain all the requisite approvals, a year and half after the programme proposal was submitted.  The Association notes it has been some time since nursing assistants and specialist nurses were trained in this country, leaving a serious deficit of much-needed talent in the public health sector. Rynessa Cutting reports.

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00:00So currently in Trinidad and Tobago,

00:27we only have registered nurses being trained

00:30and to a lesser extent, psychiatric nurses being trained.

00:35Specialist nurses and nursing assistants,

00:38there's currently no school offering these programs, unfortunately.

00:42In the absence of these programs being run,

00:45which they are currently not doing,

00:48it means that there was a continuous deficit

00:51of nursing assistants and specialist nursing personnel,

00:56trauma nurses, dialysis nurses, oncology nurses,

01:01the full gambit.

01:01The Association would also be letting the Minister of Social Education

01:26know our firm position that we believe

01:32and it is best practice that nursing be taught within a university.

01:38Currently, we have University of Southern Caribbean

01:41and University of the West Indies training nursing personnel.

01:45We would like the nursing department within Costa

01:49to be transferred over to the University of Trinidad and Tobago,

01:54thereby ensuring parity and the same level of training

01:58across the board by all nursing schools.

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