Senior Correspondent,  bdnews24.com

Published: 2014-06-20 10:22:37.0 BdST Updated: 2014-06-20 10:22:37.0 BdST

Under the programme, nurses are being taught English, computer handling, and internet use to equip them for evidence-based nursing, which the Trust says is a new concept in Bangladesh.

Thursday, seven nurses gave power-point presentations in English on anatomy and physiology of the heart, coronary circulation, clinical manifestation and diagnostic procedure, surgical management, medical management, nursing management, and health informatics.

Their presentations overwhelmed the National Professor and Founder of the National Heart Foundation Abdul Malik.

He thanked the Good Heal Trust for introducing such “an innovative and continuing education program” for nurses.

He urged nurses to be abreast of the “latest innovations in health care” and stressed more such training programs for them.

The Trust says the seminar is intended to familiarise the trainees with scientific seminars and to make hospital authorities see the benefits of continuing education for nurses.

“The seminar was successful in both regards. Doctors, nurses, and the hospital administration were intrigued by the scientific presentation by the nurses and the fact that it was in English,” it says in a media release.

The Heart Foundation’s Vice President Prof Shirajul Islam, Chief Cardiac Surgeon Prof Farooque Ahmed, and Secretary General Prof Abdul Awal Rizvi were present among others.

The training module had been designed by the US-based Institute for Nursing Healthcare Leadership (INHL), an affiliate of the Harvard Medical School’s consortium hospitals.

It was aimed at making the nurses “globally competitive” with improved patient-managing knowledge, and exposure to the latest innovations.