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HEALTHCARE EDUCATION CONT’D
In May, the first two cohorts of nurse educators in the
Haiti Nursing Continuing Education Program attended their graduation ceremony in Haiti. With the graduates in the front row are, from left, Anne Mistivar, project faculty coordinator and cultural consultant for the program; Hilda Alcindor, project co-director from the Episcopalian Univer- sity School of Nursing in Haiti; Harry Dumay, president of Elms College; Joyce Hampton, associate vice president of Strategic Initiatives and dean of the School of Arts, Sciences and Professional Programs at Elms; and Bapthol Joseph, project co-manager from the Episcopalian University School of Nursing in Haiti.
those providing care is paramount.
People like Lousemie Duvernat, a nurse who was
part of the second cohort that went through the Elms program. Via Zoom and through an interpreter — Anne Mistivar, project faculty coordinator and cultural consultant for what has come to be known as the Haiti Nursing Continuing Education Program — Duvernat said the program, and, specifically, its ‘train-the-trainer’ approach, has made her a better nurse, not to mention a better educator.
“The Elms program was very helpful because in Haiti they don’t have this type of training for nurses,” she explained. “They have nurses that are in different specialties and in different roles, and they find them-
selves teaching, but they’ve never been taught how to teach, so this program is very important because they are learning how to be an instructor.
“This, in essence, has helped them to understand the students, how to deliver the message, how to present, and how to evaluate the students and make them better educators,” she went on, adding that she would like to see the program continue because they simply don’t have anything like the ‘train-the-trainer’ approach in Haiti.
Such sentiments clearly explain why this initiative was undertaken and why it has persevered through so many extreme challenges, said Deana Nunes, associ- ate dean of the School of Nursing and assistant clini- cal professor at Elms and nurse educator and course faculty for the Haiti Nursing Continuing Education Program, adding that the results thus far have been encouraging on many levels, but especially in what she called the “thirst for learning” she has seen from the nurses from Haiti who have been involved with the program.
For this issue and its focus on healthcare educa- tion, HCN takes an in-depth look at this inspiring program, its goals, and the many ways in which suc- cess is being measured.
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Duvernat — again, through her interpreter, Mis- tivar, who is also from Haiti — told HCN that, since she was a child, she harbored dreams of becoming a doctor. In Haiti, though, the road to that profes-