WORKSHOP 1
I. REASEARCH PROBLEM What is the impact of Project RNHeals in the development health care system delivery in the 1st district in the province of Iloilo? Does it contribute to the improvement of delivering basic health care sevices in the community?
II. WHAT IS?
Subject: Guidelines for the Implementation of the Registered Nurses for Health Enhancement and Local Service (RNheals) Project Batch IV.
Rationale
The Registered Nurses for Health Enhancement and Local Service Project otherwise known as RNheals Project was conceptualized in response to the country’s constitutional mandate to make essential health goods and social services available to all Filipinos, especially the poor.
On February 14, 2012, RNheals was launched in collaboration with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), Professional Regulatory Commission-Board of Nursing (PRC-BON) and Philippine Nurses Association (PNA). RNheals is a learning and deployment project designed to mobilize registered nurses in identified priority areas to improve delivery of quality health care services. As such, RNheals is a collaborative effort of national and local government, government and private organizations and other stakeholders. While RNheals is envisioned to improve access of poor municipalities to quality healthcare with social services, RNheals specifically aims at increasing nurses’ employability by creating a pool of registered nurses with enhanced clinical and public health management competencies. Taken from Nurseslabs.com
RNheals does not intend to provide employment but rather learning and development. The nurses under RNheals are therefore not regular employees but pre-service trainees. They are given allowance/stipend not salaries and are deployed in areas where nursing services are mostly needed
Objectives
The Order aims to standardize the