Brunei - Importance of nurses' training stressed

WHILE Brunei is in need of more nurses, undergoing training is important for those already in nursing field, said the Acting Nursing Officer (Education) and Deputy Head of the Continuing Nursing Education Unit yesterday.

Noraliah Abdullah said this prior to the departure of 27 nurses from government health institutions to Singapore for a six-day educational visit.

Nurses can learn from visits to foreign medical education institutions such as the Singapore ITE, College East, she said, and training also includes the culture of care in the country and best standards of practice, to bring back to Brunei.

"It's good for them to strengthen their knowledge, and then it gives them an opportunity to see what the training is like over there, and gives them some more (information) about opportunities for future studies," said Noraliah on why foreign visits such as the one to Singapore was important for the nurses' education.

Apart from visits to medical institutions in Singapore, the group will also participate in social visits.

The participating nurses will return to work under normal or general category nursing positions, she explained, where they will be allocated to positions such as bedside nurses, who are involved in the daily care of patients and checking their vital signs.

Noraliah also said that the participating nurses come from government hospitals all over the nation, and were specialising in renal care as dialysis assistants for kidney patients.

"This group, in fact, they are all from one area renal care. (In the next batch) they will all be fresh graduates, and they will be deployed to all the four major hospitals or clinics."

She added that these nurses have been working for quite some time before joining the training, with one year left to go in their two-year course, before they become assistant nurses.

"It's their first time going there, and they can have an idea of the curriculum as well in Singapore," said Myra Abigania, an educator from the course.

Myra, who is a Philippine national, said that similar programmes could be also further fostered between Brunei and the Philippines as there are also nurses going to her country for training. The traveling group consisted of 19 student nurses and three officers from the Continuing Nursing Education Unit.

YING CHIA

The Brunei Times

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