The Oklahoma Nurses Association (ONA) invites Wyoming nurses to join them as they visit Cuba. ONA is organizing a delegation to visit Cuba for the purpose of meeting with our Cuban counterparts and learning about the role of Cuban nurses in health care delivery, December 5 – 10, 2016. Delegates will participate in professional meetings and site visits each day.
The goals of the delegation and initial topics of discussion for the meetings and site visits have been preliminarily identified as the following:
Meet with the Cuban Nursing Society
- Panel presentation overview of the Cuban Health Care System
- Meet with nurses and discuss their role at the tertiary care level of medical attention in Cuba
- Visit the National School of Public Health (ENSAP) to discuss post-graduate curriculum designed for nurses in Cuba
- Visit a community-based Policlinico and Family Doctor/Nurse clinics and meet with nurse executives, staff nurses and supervisors
- Visit a nursing home to learn about the role of nurses in hospice care
- Visit Hogar Materno Infantil, a maternity clinic, to learn about the role of nursing in maternity care
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