Tag Archives: Nepal Society for Critical Care Medicine

Biratnagar Part three – a few scenes of Nobel Medical College August 2016

Posted on September 14, 2016 by Joe Niemczura, RN, MS

This is the third of a series about the two-and-a-half weeks I spent teaching critical care skills at Nobel Medical College in Biratnagar Nepal. I taught 200 nurses and MBBS students and doctors, there. When I posted the blog about … Continue reading →

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July 18, 2015 an MBBS doc writes about ACLS for interns

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Joe Niemczura, RN, MS

Editor’s note: I was privileged to work with Chitwan Medical College (CMC) in 2015 to train 120 MBBS interns with the 2-day course of Cardiac Life Support from CCNEPal. CMC was a terrific partner and they are now teaching this … Continue reading →

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Why not certify ICUs in Nepal? July 2015

Posted on July 8, 2015 by Joe Niemczura, RN, MS

The trend A hospital decides it will have an ICU. They buy the equipment and hire the staff. Poof! Magic! Now they have one! or do they? No. To create an ICU you need a team of nurses. The question … Continue reading →

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May 28 report of CCNEPal part three

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Joe Niemczura, RN, MS

Please read parts one and two. In part one, I summarized the numbers of sessions, the locations and the people who took the 2-day (MBBS) or 3-day (for nurses and nursing students) versions of the ACLS course. In part two, … Continue reading →

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CCNEPal report may 26th, 2015 – part 2 – how MBBS medical education works

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Joe Niemczura, RN, MS

Update May 27th, 2015 – in Today’s news, an article about the Ministry of health and the difficulty faced in assigning young MBBS doctors to the quake zone. click here. I invite the government to learn more about my small … Continue reading →

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CCNEPal Preliminary report for 2015, late May, part one, just the facts…..

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Joe Niemczura, RN, MS

note: I will depart Nepal for 2015 on May 30th. It’s a slow day and I thought I’d start this. The calendar year 2014 was summarized in a previous blog. Considerable detailed notes have been published here on a frequent basis. … Continue reading →

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April 18, 2015 #Criticalcare Road Trip through #Nepal

Posted on April 18, 2015 by Joe Niemczura, RN, MS

CCNEPal is a small #NGO with one mission: teach Advanced Cardiac Life Support  in #Nepal. For months, we planned a “road trip” outside the Kathmandu Valley with twelve sessions. We made 500 sets of handouts, printed 500 certificates, pre-positioned our teaching … Continue reading →

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