Jeddah opens today''s activities
Jeddah, 12 Rajab 1434 AH, corresponding to May 22, 2013 AD, SPA Director of Al-Thaghr General Hospital in Jeddah, Dr. Nasser bin Rajla Al-Juhani, inaugurated today the activities of the celebration of the International Day of Nursing for the current year, which is held under the title "Bridging the Gap", at the hospital''s headquarters. The ceremony held on this occasion included a lecture by Dr. Nasser Al-Juhani on the role of nursing in providing health services in health facilities, praising the great efforts made by the Saudi male and female nurse towards serving patients.
Al-Juhani touched on the gap and the shortage of nursing staff in hospitals and health facilities and its causes, indicating that the shortage exists in various countries of the world, and is a great suffering that all health services suffer from in the world.
While the Director of the Nursing Department at Jeddah Health, Iman Badukhan emphasized in her lecture the importance of developing the nursing staff through several aspects, including the establishment and organization of intensive training courses and programs in the specialty.
She called on male and female nurses working in the health sector in Jeddah to develop themselves and to attend regular seminars and conferences, in addition to reading permanently to learn about everything new and modern in the field of nursing in order to continue communicating with the global developments that have become happening on a daily basis and ask them to continue education in order to access studies Supreme.
At the end of the ceremony, the lecturers and organizers were honored at the events, and shields and certificates of appreciation were presented to the shareholders.
It is noteworthy that the activities of the International Day of Nursing included the holding of a health exhibition in which the various nursing departments of the hospital participated, during which a set of awareness leaflets and medical examinations to measure blood pressure and blood sugar levels were presented to patients, reviewers and attendees.
