Before our team went down to Roatan, Honduras Teri, another RN and I were trying to get our documents in order to be able to help at Ms. Peggy's clinic. Not knowing anything about the clinic, we decided to forego working there and just visit with the hopes to bring a team of nurses down.
Wow were we surprised when we went there! This clinic is 100% run by nurses with 1 Honduran doctor who works there all the time as well as Doctors and PA's from the states. It was amazing! The pictures i'll show you don't do it justice. This clinic is nicer than many of the public health clinics i have been to and worked at. No joke! It was clean, sanitary, and above all else provided amazing medical care that you can't get on the island. The clinic ran as a urgent care/primary care office. People came in on a walk-in basis. We happened to be there on Thursday as well, and thursday is PapSmear day! So it was super busy with sick babies, men, and women, as well as women there to have their annual check up! The white islanders, or gringos, also come here because the medical care of so good!
They also have a pharmacy! The nurses run the pharmacy too! The process is: The patient checks in with the receptionist. Then they are called to the triage room where Teri & I took their vitals and asked why they had come. They go wait in the lobby again. The chart goes to the designated room ie: adult or pediatric room to see the proper physician. They are then called back by the nurse and the doctor sees them. If they need prescriptions they go and wait in the lobby. The nurse draws up all the medication and instructions and then goes to the lobby and does all the teaching for the patient and the patient is on their way! It's a wonderful system and serves them well!
In the upstairs portion of the clinic, Ms. Peggy is trying to become certified as an inpatient pediatric unit! She is an amazing woman. So some of the pictures you'll see are the supplies she has upstairs to start her 24/7 nurse run unit with an MD on call. Amazing!
Here are a few pictures
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| her crash cart! |
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| A bed in the pediatric room. It is one big room full of beds for maybe 5-6 patients. |
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| cribs |
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| Upstairs as well, she has 4 birthings suits, with a private bathroom and a place for the husband to stay. This is unheard of in this area! Running water even! To give birth in these rooms you have to attend a prenatal class every wednesday held by the clinic, and that is your ticket to be able to use these rooms, which will open i believe in April of this year. |
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| Room full of donated medications! Amazing! |
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| Bins ready to go to the patient. The nurse takes this basket and papers and teaches the patient about the medication |
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| This is the pediatric office where the kids are seem by the Dr. |
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| Teri! |
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| Teri & I in the triage room! |
You are awesome! Looking forward to sending a team of nurses to help Miss Peggy and bless Roatan!
ReplyDeleteOk this place does look cleaner and more organized than our doctor's office! So cool!
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