Improving Nursing Training Through Partnerships

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by Galina Kirgetova

Central Clinical Hospital has nine hospital buildings. I represent the Internal Medicine Department located in Building No. 5. In our everyday work we try to adopt the best we can learn from our partners.

The main goal for all nurses working in our hospital is to enhance their professional skills through continuous medical education with a focus on patient care. AIHA's conferences give us information for nursing education and training as well as enlarging the scope of their professional duties.

We received numerous suggestions from our partners on how to train nurses in our multispeciality hospital. We also identified new areas that are of mutual interest for us. Through the partnership program, the hospital opened a 39-bed unit for foreign patients. There, our nurses are trained by the partnership's nurse educator, who uses the American nursing model. Our head and staff nurses go through training at hospital-wide CME courses.

The hospital began to perform coronary bypass operations. With this new procedure, nurses have had to learn how to take care of post-operative patients. At the moment, we have one nurse who went through the training in coronary patient rehabilitation in the US. This year we have begun postgraduate training of our nurses in a nursing college.

Head nurses have learned to use hospital computer systems. Our future lies in computerizing many aspects of a nurse's work. Our partnership with the American colleagues began in 1993; since then we have made tangible steps in understanding the health care systems and finding ways to improve nursing.

Galina Kirgetova is Chief Nurse, of Internal Medicine Department at Central Clinical Hospital
Moscow, Russia
tel: 7 (095) 414 02 93
fax: 7 (095) 414 07 10

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