Wound Care Trainers build Capacity to provide Quality Services in CBC Health Facilities
Some 30 wound care trainers of the CBC Health Services have been equipped with the necessary skills to better carter for wounds and injuries in CBC Health facilities.
This was during a 2-day annual-come-together meeting organized at the CBC Health Services Resource Centre of Excellence, Mvan Yaoundé.
The workshop which was chaired by the director of CBC Health Services, Prof Tih Pius Muffih, provided a platform to keep wound care Trainers abreast with new trends in wound care services
Speaking during the workshop, the Wound Care supervisor of CBC Health Services, Mboni Loveline Gam, highlighted that the Wound Care services have undergone a facelift in terms of quality within the CBC Health facilities all thanks to Evidence-Based Wound Care practices introduced by Mrs. Carolyn Brown; pioneer facilitator of the Evidence-Based Training program in 2017.
The Evidence-Based Wound Care practice seeks to diagnose and treat wounds and injuries with a specific line of treatment patterning to each wound.
‘Before 2017, wound care practices within the CBC Health Services were highly based on inherited concepts many of which had limitations leading to delays in wound healing and sometimes physical disabilities such as contractures and amputation. Today we celebrate the continuation of what we describe as our success and dream comes through’ Mboni Loveline emphasized.
She added that 12 wound care nurses, who enrolled in the first batch of the Evidence-Based Wound Care Training in 2017, have successfully trained 19 other nurses in the capacity of trainers making 30 trainers within the CBC Health Services.
The Pioneer facilitator of the Evidence-Based Training program, Mrs. Carolyn Brown, reiterated that the overall objective of the annual-come-together meeting was to share experiences and success stories but also to address possible gaps in routine activities in order to ameliorate the quality of services offered to patients in all CBC Health Facilities. She however urged wound care trainers to always be willing to teach other nurses new skills in wound Care services.
The workshop featured presentations on diverse topics including types of Skin damage, common anal rectal abnormalities, atypical wounds, supply inventory of wound care products and daily patients’ schedule, traumatic wounds, Arterial ulcers, and Buruli’s ulcers.