For dedicated nurses like Maxine Boysen, a recent internship at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital has unlocked new knowledge and expertise on how to better care for children suffering from burn wounds.
Cape Town, South Africa (26 March 2025) – In efforts to strengthen burn unit care services and ensure children’s suffering is minimised as much as possible across the Western Cape, the Children’s Hospital Trust recently rolled out a programme to develop the skills of local nurses and healthcare workers to provide effective treatment.
The programme, which is currently ongoing, is helping staff of the Worcester Hospital in Western Cape; this plays a crucial role in the Trust’s ongoing burns expansion project.
Benefitting from the programme, Maxine Boysen is a qualified nurse from Worcester Hospital who recently completed a two-week internship in the Burn Unit at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital.
For Maxine, the internship has been a great learning experience, which has opened her eyes to the demands of timely burn care treatment and how different medical professionals work together and interchangeably to ensure children receive the best care in order to heal.
“We also worked in the burn wards where we saw how they scrub burns as well as in the trauma unit where we patients with burns come in and how they’re classified and if the patient needs to be admitted or attended in the out-patient facility.
“We’ve learned a lot and these are all things that we can take back to our local facilities and implement what we’ve been taught,” Maxine said.
This programme plays a part in providing accredited training to nurses at different hospitals, making sure little ones and youngsters receive treatment and decreasing the cost and time to access medical care near home.
Sources: Children’s Hospital Trust
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