Journal of Pediatric Care

My six month in Africa

Joint Event on 25^th World Pediatrics Conference & 6^th International Conference on Pediatric Critical Care and Emergency Medicine
October 18- 20, 2018 Warsaw, Poland

Maaike Plieger

Oslo University Hospital, FK, Norway

ScientificTracks Abstracts: J Pediatr Care

DOI: 10.21767/2471-805X-C4-014

Abstract

The Presentation is about my work in Malawi, I worked there for 6 months. On the only Pediatric Intensive Care there is in Malawi in Blantyre. It opened last year July, and is build by the money of Madonna, who visit us last July. Project Goals were Breathing, Circulation, Hygiene, Communication, Materials, Recovery, Patient care, Personal projects. and FK. My personal projects were Chichewa class, Handy(wo)man, Sharing, Adoption, Health teaching locals, Combined twin, Pocketbook ICU nurses, Poetry. My job was teaching the nurses bedside on everything. We have 6 ventilated beds on PICU and there was a lot to teach the nurses at so I could share my knowledge. I went there being in a Norweigen project, By Oslo University Hospital

Biography

Maaike Plieger is a senior nurse and has completed her graduation in Pediatric Intensive Care nursing in 2002 from University Medical Center, Utrecht and Neonatal care nursing in 1991from Sophia Hospital Zwolle she was a teaching Nurse In QUEENS Mercy James Blantyre, Malawi and was Working in Holland for 42 years mostly with Pediatric care, the last 18years she worked in Utrecht on a PICU.

E-mail: maaike.plieger@gmail.com