GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The need for improvements in the quality and quantity of nurses in the region has been put on the front burner by health ministers, who recently concluded the 21st meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Council of Human and Social Development (COHSOD) held in Guyana.
In making the disclosure to the media, Barbados Health Minister Donville Innis said the conference accepted the model curriculum of the Regional Nursing Body (RNB), the body in the CARICOM that oversees nursing issues.
Innis said, “We would have looked at a common curriculum throughout the region for nursing training. One of the issues that concerns all of us in CARICOM is the quantity and quality of nurses being produced in the region, particularly at a time when some islands continue to be challenged by outward migration of nursing professionals and the need for us to build capacity in nursing in the Caribbean, both in terms of general training and those who are also engaged in various sub-specialities within the nursing profession."
"We recognised at the ministers’ meeting that nursing must continue to be placed on the front burner of regional health programmes and regional health discussions,” he said.
The Barbados Advocate reported that Innis added that nurses are indeed an integral part of any health-care system anywhere in the world.
To this end, Innis said, it was agreed that the Regional Nursing Body and the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) should continue discussions for nurses to be engaged in degree courses.
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