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Continuous training program for nursing professions

syrie_Infermiere  Sector : Healthcare, Professional Training
Location : Damascus, Syria
Local Partner: St Louis Hospital, the Italian Hospital, Dar Shifa Hospital
Start of Partnership: 2008

 

Context and considerations:

In Syria, the healthcare system is affected by its staff’s lack in qualifications which in turn compromises the quality of the medical services as well as the hospitals’ ability to deal with their patients.
Since 2002, the IECD has sought to strengthen hospital professions in Syria by supporting Aleppo’s Orthopaedic Centre (AOC). With the technical support of the Saint Joseph Hospital based in Paris, a continuous training program was developed at AOC whose methodology was tailored to meet the Syrian working environment. In 2009, the IECD ordered an evaluation study of the Damascene hospital practices which yielded a more accurate insight into the staff’s training needs and consequently confirmed the appropriateness of extending the program to other partner hospitals.

Solution proposed:

 In February 2009, three new partnership agreements were signed with the Italian Hospital, the Saint Louis Hospital and the Dar Shifa Hospital in Damascus. The aim of these partnerships is to create a resource centre which will implement a training program for their nursing staffs. This will be done in cooperation with some experts of the Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph, the project’s technical partner. Furthermore, the resource centre guarantees the capitalisation of the developed expertises as well as the training contents and the devices tracking the beneficiaries’ evolution.

Impact and results:

The pedagogical training tools have been implemented. 120 nurses started their trainings in several modules: health and asepsis, service communication and dealing with the patients. The project aims at expanding towards other partner hospitals, particularly in the public sector, in order to guarantee a large scale improvement of the Syrian health care system.