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Professionals differ on situation at School of Nursing
Director of Health Sciences Education, Noel Holder, has denied that the Georgetown School of Nursing is overcrowded or has any challenges. He is adamant that the school has no problem and issues are being inflated.
Rejecting claims by the institution’s tutors of overcrowding, ad hoc admission of students, and the Health Ministry’s disrespect for the
Some students waiting to enter the Georgetown School of Nursing
school, Holder stated, “People write and say all manner of things…inflated things too.”
He made those comments recently at the Georgetown Nursing School moments after a clustered hall of students dispersed.
According to a student, though the school is overcrowded this was the first time she has seen students waiting to enter the building while their colleagues lined the staircase to enter the classroom.
The student stressed that this is a direct result of the new students that the Health Ministry admitted to the school on Monday. Apparently, students who are preparing for final examinations usually utilize the building to engage in group studies.
Because the new students have to use the classrooms for the evening session the two shifts clashed causing frustration yesterday.
The tutors had foreseen this problem and had asked that no more students should be admitted until requested. Owing to their day shift teaching schedule the new students are not benefiting from their skills and knowledge.
Days before the new students were admitted to the institution the tutors had written the Health Ministry Permanent Secretary, Leslie Cadogan, signaling their un-acceptance of the new batch of students.
In the letter they stated, “The current number of nurse trainees in the school has significantly compromised the quality health care system and is a total violation to legitimate and acceptable health standards.”
“The curriculum for the nursing programme cannot be complete in the already overcrowded Georgetown School of Nursing and clinical areas, to such an extent that the tutors are forced to make-up classes to adequately prepare students for the writing of exams,” they further noted in the letter.
They emphasized that the Health Ministry should have taken into consideration the school’s recent failure rate and should have deferred the new intake of nurse trainees. Currently, the seven tutors have to lecture to 494 students during the day shift. The international standards require one tutor to 25 students and one tutor for eight in the lab.
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