Hemas geared to enlist nursing students
Hemas last week announced plans to enlist a second batch of nursing
students at its School of Nursing at Delpe in Ragama. Nurses who
graduate from the Hemas Nursing School will be absorbed into the
permanent cadre of the two hospitals of the Hemas Group the Southern
Hospital in Galle, and the Wattala Hospital which is scheduled for an
August 2008 opening.
CEO Hemas Hospitals Pvt Ltd Dr. Kithsiri Edirisinghe said that the
new batch will undergo an intensive three year training conducted by
experienced patient care training professionals at the fully-fledged
nurses training facility.
“Run by the Associated College of Health Sciences (ACHS), the Nursing
School’s first batch comprises 70 male and female student nurses who
will soon complete their first year’s training.
Conducted according to a curriculum approved by the Ministry of
Health and formulated to international standards, the main objective of
this programme is to train nurses who are technically sound and with
caring personalities”, Dr. Edirisinghe added.
Speaking on behalf of the first batch of nursing students, Madushika
Weeraratne of Kandy said that the multi-faceted training they had
undergone would make them technically sound nurses with caring
personalities.
“Attention is also paid to our interpersonal skills, professional
skills and ethical behaviour to make us total caregivers. Nursing is a
noble profession and we thus all want to be shining examples of our
vocation”.
One of the parents, R.M. Subaratne Menike of Welimada, said that her
son Dinusha Dhanasekera had learnt a lot during his first year at the
Hemas Nursing School.
“I am also amazed at the way my son now speaks English after this
training. He could only speak Sinhala before this. He tells me that it
was a wonderful experience and that he is looking forward to starting
his duties as a fully fledged nurse one day”.
The Hemas Nursing School will empower its graduating students to be
fully fledged health care professionals who will be enrolled at Hemas
Hospitals which will operate according to international standards. Hemas
Hospitals will also support nurses with strong qualifications.
The Hemas run Southern Hospital in Galle currently consists of 20
beds and will be upgraded to 50 bed General Hospital by March 2008.
It is currently visited by well over 40 consultant specialists
catering to the medical, surgical, obstetrics, dermatology, paediatrics,
eye, ENT and neurology areas. The new hospital will consist of
state-of-the-art operating theatres, an ICU, a medical laboratory,
radiology facilities, a dialysis unit and a labour unit.
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