在多米尼加共和国开设先进练习护理中心

纽约，纽约23日，2000年6月23日 - 由高级练习护士专门的第一家保健中心在大多数人在大多米加共和国海安市正式开业，距首都Santo Domingo 20分钟路程。该中心是由国家自治大学的圣多明各（UASD）课程的培训，现在正在准备硕士学位的母婴健康专家。该中心在护理中心临床实践中使用了相同的“教师实践”模型 - 护理学校教师 - 这是由曼哈顿北部大多数多米尼加社区的哥伦比亚大学护理学院开创。该中心与Paho / WHO合作与Paho / WHO合作开发的国际护理开发中心合作，该中心是Baxter /忠诚基础的财政支持。“巴克斯特在这个社区中看到了需求，但在哥伦比亚大学 - 国家自治大学伙伴关系创建之前，当地机构可以响应这些需求，”亨里克赫·林夏临床教授国际护理和总监临床教授世卫组织合作中心。诊所于6月1日揭开了一份庆祝活动，地方当局的参与和数百名社区成员。介绍由海诺市长，大学诊所主任，以及其医疗和护理学校主任，以及由Baxter卫生保健公司建立的当地植物和国际基金会的董事。在这些演讲之后，护理中心建立的青年团体提出了他们为该活动做好准备的戏剧和舞蹈。开幕式也是来自哥伦比亚大学的护理学生。 Ten students are at the center to provide primary care services for a period of two months as part of a residency requirement normally carried out in the United States. This integration of the Dominican and American faculties is a higher level of academic coordination than any previous efforts. "Both universities gain from these student and faculty exchanges. And with our patients going back and forth between New York and the Dominican Republic, the primary health care that we provide has to be bi-national as well," said Adalgisa Linares, director of the UASD Program in Nursing. Further collaboration will include teaching visits by directors of the clinical specialty programs of the Columbia University School of Nursing and joint research on environmental contamination and domestic violence in the Dominican Republic and in New York City. A visiting professorship for Latin American nursing faculty and a fall conference on Dominican health issues are being planned. The center began providing consultations in August of 1999. In the last three months, the number of visits has grown three-fold in most areas, including a total of 680 patients in April. The center now has its own transport and computing facilities and has built a playground on the clinic site. This playground, the first in the town of Haina, is so popular among people of all ages that more facilities are now being constructed. The center's director is a member of the national university faculty. A second senior faculty member is now joining the staff to develop a program of community-oriented research. This effort will assist the ministry of health's new focus on primary care and is consistent with the direction of the president-elect, who won on a platform of distributing the benefits of economic growth with health and social services at the community level. The nursing center works with a medical clinic operating under the same roof. Nursing visits have generated a rising level of funds, which have been used to renovate the medical clinic and save it from closing. The nurses and doctors are now collaborating to identify major priorities for Haina. These include further community health organization and health promotion, further construction of latrines and establishment of oral rehydration centers, and the provision of high-quality medical services to the 15 rural settlements in the Haina municipality. Further clinic developments envisioned include provision of an electric generator and equipment to attend births. The center is already in the process of being designated by UNICEF as one of the few "baby-friendly" centers in the Dominican Republic. The presence of students and faculty from Columbia University will assist in further developing the mission and capacity of the nursing center to provide services to poor urban and underserved rural residents.