The Minister of Health & Wellness, Hon. Dr. Michael Darville, attended the PHA Academy’s launch of its Trained Clinical Nurse Certificate Programme at the School of Nursing campus, on Grosvernor’s Close this past Monday. The Public Hospitals Authority also used the occasion to commission three (3) new ambulances into the National Emergency Medical Services fleet of emergency vehicles.
The new TCN class totals thirty-six (36) students descending from multiple islands across ourarchipelago, including New Providence, Grand Bahama, Andros, Abaco, Long Island, and as faras Mayaguana. In his remarks to the student nurses, Minister Darville outlined that initial humanresource surveys indicated that The Bahamas is experiencing a shortage of 173-180 specialtynurses and also approximately 450 nurses. Minister Darville announced the recruitment ofnurses from Ghana and the Philippines as a short-term measure to strengthen nursingservices. The fully accredited TCN Program, and the other programs that will follow, will addresslong term issues with respect to nursing shortages.
Minister Darville highlighted the enrollment of four (4) male students among the class of TCN.
The new ambulances commissioned during the event are part of a wider procurementexercise of emergency vehicles to strengthen the ambulance fleet in New Providence andGrand Bahama, and to also implement a new ground transportation system throughout theFamily Islands to ensure every Island has access to EMS responders in a fully equippedambulance.
PHA Managing Director, Dr. Aubynette Rolle and PHA Chairman, Andrew Edwards,accompanied the Minister of a tour of the refurbished School of Nursing which will continue toserve as a site for training and instruction for the University of The Bahamas School of Nursingand the PHA Academy.
The Minister of Health & Wellness, Hon. Dr. Michael Darville, attended the PHA Academy’s launch
of its Trained Clinical Nurse Certificate Programme at the School of Nursing campus, on
Grosvernor’s Close this past Monday. The Public Hospitals Authority also used the occasion to
commission three (3) new ambulances into the National Emergency Medical Services fleet of
emergency vehicles.
The new TCN class totals thirty-six (36) students descending from multiple islands across our
archipelago, including New Providence, Grand Bahama, Andros, Abaco, Long Island, and as far
as Mayaguana. In his remarks to the student nurses, Minister Darville outlined that initial human
resource surveys indicated that The Bahamas is experiencing a shortage of 173-180 specialty
nurses and also approximately 450 nurses. Minister Darville announced the recruitment of
nurses from Ghana and the Philippines as a short-term measure to strengthen nursing
services. The fully accredited TCN Program, and the other programs that will follow, will address
long term issues with respect to nursing shortages.
Minister Darville highlighted the enrollment of four (4) male students among the class of TCN.
The new ambulances commissioned during the event are part of a wider procurement
exercise of emergency vehicles to strengthen the ambulance fleet in New Providence and
Grand Bahama, and to also implement a new ground transportation system throughout the
Family Islands to ensure every Island has access to EMS responders in a fully equipped
ambulance.
PHA Managing Director, Dr. Aubynette Rolle and PHA Chairman, Andrew Edwards,
accompanied the Minister of a tour of the refurbished School of Nursing which will continue to
serve as a site for training and instruction for the University of The Bahamas School of Nursing
and the PHA Academy.
