This Thursday, in Luanda, the Council of Ministers approved the regulation of specialized training in nursing, a diploma that establishes the standards relating to the specialized training process in the National Health Service (SNS).
The training aims to enable nursing graduates to exercise autonomously and technically differentiated from their area of activity, granting them a corresponding specialist degree and, in this way, providing better health care.
Speaking to the press, at the end of the session led by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, the Minister of Health, Sílvia Lutucuta, highlighted that it was the first in the history of the national health service, to respond, on the one hand, to the needs of the sector that wants more and more differentiated professionals.
On the other hand, the government official said, it aims to respond to the class’s desires, in alignment with the national plan for specialized training in the health sector.
Technicians will be equipped with the necessary skills to provide better health services and care to the population.
The diploma has 39 articles and seven chapters. It stipulates that specialization courses will last three years and have a workload that varies between two thousand and 40 and two thousand and 400 hours, with a theoretical component of 40 percent and a practical component of 60 percent of the curriculum.
The areas of nursing in maternal and child health, emergencies and trauma, medical surgery, nephrology, community health, childcare and pediatrics and dermatology were defined as priority specialties.
During the course of the program, new specialties will be incorporated whenever possible.
The SNS currently controls 87,617 professionals across the country.