Luanda - The Cabinet Council approved Thursday the regulation for specialized nursing training , which establishes the rules for the specialized training process in the National Health Service (SNS).
The aim of the training is to enable nursing graduates to perform autonomously and in a technically differentiated way, giving them the corresponding degree of specialist to provide better healthcare.
Speaking to the press following the meeting, the Health minister, Silvia Lutucuta, said the regulation is the first one to be approved in the history of the National Health Service, with the aim to respond to the needs of the sector, which seeks to integrate more and more differentiated professionals.
The minister added that the regulatory tool also aims to respond to the wishes of the profession, in line with the national plan for specialized training in the health sector, enabling technicians to be equipped with the necessary skills to provide better health services and care for the population.
The newly approved law stipulates that specialization courses must have a duration of three years and a workload of between two thousand and fourty hours and two thousand and four hundred hours, being the theoretical component of 40 percent and a practical component of 60 percent of the curriculum.
Nursing in maternal and child healthcare, emergencies and trauma, surgical medicine, nephrology, community health, childcare and pediatrics and dermatology have been defined as priority specialties.
The National Health System currently integrates 87,617 professionals all over the country.PA/OHA/AMP
