Twenty nurses are trained in OB/GYN, pediatric and psychiatric care at the Malaga Regional Office.

MALAGA, July 19 (EUROPE PRESS) –

This Wednesday, the Málaga Mother and Child Hospital hosted a graduation ceremony for twenty nurses who received their specialization in obstetrics and gynecology, pediatric care and mental health after completing a two-year special training plan in the public health centers of the province. . The action was also joined by residents who were trained in the specialty “Nursing”.

Associate Director of Medicine and Nursing Barbara Torres and Ana Pérez chaired the event along with Angela Torres, Chair of the Nursing Education Subcommittee of the Regional University Hospital of Malaga, and President of the Malaga College of Nursing, José Miguel Carrasco.

During the operation of the directives, they turned to the inhabitants and called on them to care and innovate, while not forgetting about humanization. “You are leaders in the field of healthcare, and your specialization allows you to provide quality care at the forefront,” they noted.

Prior to graduation, Maria Rosa Iglesias Parra, Professor of the Department of Nursing at the Faculty of Health Sciences, proposed a conference to complete the training of resident nurses.

In particular, there are twenty specialists in obstetric and gynecological care (midwives) trained in the provincial training department of Malaga, to which are attached positions offered by the ministry for training: six in the regional hospital, two in the Virgen de la Victoria, two in the Antequera hospital and two in the Aksarkia hospital.

Four child care specialists were trained in the multidisciplinary department of the Mother and Child Hospital and four mental health nursing specialists were trained in the multidisciplinary mental health training unit of the Regional University Hospital of Malaga.

Over the course of two years, specialists rotated between different medical facilities and programs of the pediatric and obstetrics and gynecology hospital and community teams.

They are the 18th class of midwives, the 10th class of pediatric nurses in the province, and the 11th class of mental health nurses in the province.

In total, from 1996 to the present, 300 midwives have been trained in the public hospitals Regional de Málaga, Virgen de la Victoria, Antequera and Axarquia; more than 30 pediatric nurses have been trained in the hospital for mother and child and primary health care since 2012, when training in this specialty began, and more than 50 in mental health, with the regional hospital pioneering the training of these specialists in 2011. The event was also attended by two working nurses who were trained in the health complex.

SPECIALTIES

The training department for midwives in Málaga is the oldest in Andalusia and has trained obstetrics and gynecology nurses at the regional hospital since 1996, at the Virgen de la Victoria since 2003 and at the Hospital Costa del Sol since 2006.

The training plan for midwives, in addition to rotating in health centers and hospitals in the province, also gives them the opportunity to carry out external rotation in centers of recognized national prestige or outside of Spain.

Upon completion, nurses are trained to handle any stage of the women’s sexual and reproductive health cycle, from first menstruation to menopause. In addition, they provide support for women’s health prevention and promotion, family planning, youth sexual orientation, menopause, and pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and parenting.

“The competence profile of our new specialists allows them to provide comprehensive assistance in matters of women’s sexual, reproductive and maternal health, in terms of prevention, care and health recovery. normal pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period, as well as caring for a healthy newborn baby until the 28th day of life,” added Angela Torres, head of midwifery education.

Training activities were conducted on inpatient care: obstetric and gynecological emergency care, maternity ward, postpartum ward, inpatient department for pregnant women, fetal pathophysiology and maternity hospital at the first place of residence. Second in high risk obstetrics, maternity ward, operating room, gynecology ward, outpatient clinics, assisted reproduction unit, youth sexual orientation center and neonatal intensive care unit.

In primary health care, they received training in reproductive counseling, prenatal care, maternity/paternity education, childbirth and home counseling, family planning and contraception, affective sexual counseling, youth care, sexual and reproductive health preventive interventions, early diagnosis of gynecological and breast cancer, menopause, educational program on women’s health in menopause, educational activities aimed at the public on maternal and child health and sexual and reproductive health: youth, schools, women’s associations, etc.

On the other hand, pediatric nurses have been trained in various areas of pediatrics of the mother and child hospital, such as infants, burns, preschoolers, infectious diseases, outpatient consultations, child mental health, pediatric intensive care unit, neonatology in their intensive care. Areas of Care. Newborn, Neonatal Transition Module in Obstetrics and Intermediate Care, completing care for healthy children and adolescents in the community during their education in primary care.

In terms of pediatric training, the leaders of the pediatric care program in Materno, Maria Angeles Garcia and José M. Garcia, note that during training in the specialty, specialists do their job of caring for infants and adolescents from birth. up to adolescence, in acute and chronic processes, in the prevention and promotion of the health of this particularly vulnerable population group.

“Pediatric nursing specialists carry out their training both in a hospital setting and in the community, as the child population needs qualified child care specialists throughout its development. The success of new technologies in the treatment of childhood pathologies requires high specificity, which is acquired in the course of two years of living,” he pointed out, adding that now increasing survival rates for chronic processes and new treatments mean that many children can be treated at home, and for this they need qualified specialists, which reduces the number of hospitalizations and promotes normality in the lives of children and their families.

In the case of mental health nursing, “professionals undergoing training have been provided with their own training model from the Regional Hospital of Malaga, which includes not only part of care, but also part of training, research and management,” added Carlos Aguilera. – Serrano, Mental Health EIR Mentor and Secretary of the Spanish Association of Mental Health Nurses.

An interprofessional pedagogical model that also involves mental health service users and their families is a key issue today and is vital in any process of humanizing mental health care.