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Jamaica’s health care has had a weak history, however has been improving and continuing to improve. Part of this is from the fact that close to half of the healthcare workers from the area are leaving for the better opportunities that are offered elsewhere. [1] The other cause comes from Jamaica’s history.
Nursing Students Without Borders (NSWB) is an international, not-for-profit health care-related non-governmental organization created and led by nursing students in conjunction with relevant fields of science and humanitarian aid which focuses on improving living conditions where poverty exists both internationally and in the United States.
Government-guaranteed health care for all citizens of a country, often called universal health care, is a broad concept that has been implemented in several ways.The common denominator for all such programs is some form of government action aimed at broadly extending access to health care and setting minimum standards.
Jamaica has also formed a summer school program, which is a five-day workshop for students to gain first hand experience working in the tourism environment. Field trips to "local" tourist attractions are also included, along with a "one month placement of the top students in hotels and tourism related organizations.
It was chartered by the Government of Jamaica in 2009, [2] and provisionally accredited by the Caribbean Accreditation Authority for Education in Medicine and other Health Professions (CAAM-HP) in 2010 with an annual renewal to 2015. [3] The university began classes in 2011 at its Jamaica campus and graduated its first class in 2014. [4]
Victoria Jubilee Hospital (initially known as the Victoria Jubilee Lying-In Hospital) was founded in 1891 and opened to the public in 1892 in Kingston, Jamaica. [1] The current facility, the largest maternity hospital in the English-speaking Caribbean, features 248 beds and delivers around 8,000 babies annually.
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The school is owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica. The school is being named in honour of Mrs. Hyacinth Chen, the mother of major donor, Michael Lee-Chin, Jamaican/Canadian businessman. The school will hold 800 nursing students and will reduce Jamaica's nursing shortage.