3 & 4 October 2015, Mauritius
This program was organised in collaboration with the PICU-Nurse International and, Neonatal and Paediatric Intensive Care Foundation and Ministry of Health and Quality of Life, Mauritius.
The one and half day workshop was extended to 2 days to include ICU topics; non-invasive ventilation and oxygen device use. The ICU topics was conducted by PICU nurses and an Intensivist.
The team met up with Healthcare Leaders from the Ministry of Health and Quality of Life i.e. Director General of Health Services, Director of Health Services and Director of Nursing. The leadership gave their endorsement for this collaboration, which provided a spirit of mutual growth and transferability of knowledge and skills to achieve better health for children in Mauritius.
There were 30 participants representing the major hospitals and also from Rodrigues Island and included
medical and nursing staff from anaesthesia, paediatric, neonatology and the paediatric surgeon
Most of the participants shown a high level of enthusiasm and during case discussions shared and asked questions.
Comments during the post-workshop debrief by participants:
Generally positive and hope for more of such exchange and such training.
The participants felt it is necessary to have clinical guidelines be shared and standardized across all hospitals to eliminate the variation of practices. Some of care practice guidelines that cited to be helpful to be used in their setting are:
- Paediatric Clinical Practice
- Paediatric Anaesthesia
- Neonatal Clinical Practice
- Emergency Care Management Guide