By Precious Dennis Freeman
All 47 graduates of the Liberia Dujar Technical College are urged to serve because it is the true measure of one’s success.
Celebrating the 5th commencement convocation on its campus in the Barnesville Township over the weekend, the Liberia Dujar Technical College keynote speaker, Dr. Wilhelmina S. Jallah, said service is a right and that there can be no better profession than serving as a nurse.
Health Minister Jallah explained that nurses should care more for patients, nurses should inconvenient themselves and go beyond at the expense of their own needs injecting that attention to patients is a blessing that can be received a tenth-fold.
“You have an incredible opportunity to make a difference in somebody’s life as you go to work. We impact the lives of our patients only by our voices because nurses have power in their voice and when we execute that power, we can change the course of someone’s life,’ she mentioned.
“There are approximately over 400 physicians in the country but there are over thousands of nurses and if incase we take the doctors away, the nurses will be there to serve all of our people,” Min. Jallah assured.
In addition, the keynote speaker revealed that the government has embarked on creating opportunities by sending some nurses out of the country to specialize in pediatric nursing, biology and ITU nursing.
Min. Jallah said special efforts are being made to ensure that nurses stand and work along with doctors on the new technologies and advised nurses to always respect the code of ethics that govern the profession.
“You have to know how to talk to your patients; whether you have gotten paid or not; do not bring your problems to the patients, keep it in mind that the patients have the right to make their own decision based on their own beliefs and guardians and listen to all the negatives because these are the people we have to deal with,” the guest speaker expressed.
The Minister of Health advised, “Be a good nurse one have to start where you are, use what you have and do what you can do, take pride in how far you have come and do not forget to enjoy the journey because if you don’t have a dream you will never have a dream to come true.”
She said nurses are entitled to five right which include right to patients, right to drugs, right to dose, right to routes and right to time because nurses are the last defense of every patient.
Meanwhile, the president of the Technical College, Rev. Nathan F. Mahteh, Sr. for his part, sent a SoS call for assistance to enable the training institute carry out its desire goal adding that there are plans to introduce additional courses including the school of business.
Rev. Mahteh further called on the government to provide subsidy to the teachers’ educational program.