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By Henry Heel
Members of the Wingham and District
Hospital Board have pledged their support
of an education program for nurses re-enter-
ing the, profession after having been away
from nursing for a number of years.
While the nuts and bolts of designing and
funding the.progran1 have been left up to the
nursing department and the fillancecohi-
• mittee, board members agreed the matter is
an urgent one and merits more considera-
tion. • '
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Nursing Director William Woodley, in a
• presentation to the board last week, said
more money is needed to provide an ade-
quate in-service training. program.
Only $1,600 was budgeted for the current •
• year, while already more thandouble that
amount has been spent, he reported, and he
asked that the budget be raised to S000
next year.
He explained that the hospital more and
more is having to ,rely on staffing with
registered nurses who are returning. to the
profession after having been out bf it for
, periods ranging' up to 18 years. As a result
' they 'require a great deal of refresher
training. . • .
This training is being provided In a 'variety
of ways? through a "buddy system" in which •
a returning nurse accompanies an exper-
ienced nurse through her rounds and
through courses and seminars.
s, ' The nurses are eager to: upgrade their
4,, skills and spend a lot of time doing volunteer
work before, they are accepted ons „the staff,
•Mr. Woodley told the board. - •
He said his biggest concern is in the area
\of pharmacology -- administering of medic-
ines --« since medications have changed
I.• completely during the years since these
. nurses were active. They're really respell-
. sible for • knowing everything about the
• medicine they're giving, he noted, and must
be able to recognize an advirsezmatken, and
•-knew Which medication it &it'll -IA -Able:
Wpite?4,4ther--hospitals aIsMexperien-
• cinga ihocagt `or registered nurses; the
. situation is. somewhat unique, he said. It is
• too far from major centres for nurses to
commute and, since much of the staffing is
done with part-time nurses, there is
difficulty in attracting people to locate here,
• The scaling down of construction at the
Bruce Nuclear Power Development has had
a noticeable effect, he added. At one time a
large number of skilled workers were
employed there and moved into the area
bringing their wives, many of whom were.
trained nurses.
• This source is drying up and consequently
the hospital has had to turn to nurses coming
back after having raised their families. Six
nurses were hired in 1980 who had been
away from the profession for periods ranging
between 10 and 18 years.
He predicted the situation *ill get worse
before it gets better, adding he hopes the
solution will 'come when nursing. schools
start turning out graduates of the new
two-year, three-month program. That pro-
• gram begins • this fall.
In the meantime, he said he nee& more
money to provide more continuing education
at the hospital. He plans to form ,an
in-service committeeofhimself,, the nursing
co-ordinators - and representatives , of the
registered nurses and registered nursing
assistants. This group will decide on the
wisest use of the funds: who goes to courses
and seminars, and what speakers to tiring, to
the hospital. •'
He noted that while many other hospitals• .
have a half-time nurse in charge of in-service
training programs, he's not proposing that
here. The nursing department can handle
that if it's given the money to work with.
Norman Hayes, hospital executive direc-
tor, said he's very high" on continuing
•education, but •wasn't sure .whether the
hospital could affort to devote more money
to it. "Nursing .takes the biggest bite out of
• education as its is."
He said the hospital is caught "between a
• rockhnd a hard place" until the new nursing
cycle cornet through, adding that in his
adiiiitticins to nursling programs have
been too tightly regulated by the govern-
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according to, supply and demand. , split 50-50, Mr. Woodley advised, He point -
Archie Hill, a member of the hospital i ed out the returning nurses already put in a
board from Whighaol, asked who is respon- lot of time without pay, working in the buddy
sible for retraining nurses who are re- system.
entering the profession,' the Mines them- "Since the hospital is so. desperate for
them, it should be 50-50."
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