Virgin Islanders targeted for hospital employment
“...they will spend some time in the pharmacy, sometime in the Labs, in radiology, in the medical record [department] to get a feel of the different ancillary things that support the hospital services and give them some interest in those fields,” announced the Director of Hospital Services, Cedorene Patricia Malone-Smith at a press conference on June 14, 2012.
Furthermore, Mrs. Malone-Smith told journalists that the Authority is constantly hiring to ensure the smooth flow of the services offered but admitted, “we have new nurses coming in and we have nurses going”.
The good news is that five nurses from the Caribbean were hired recently, and seven more are expected to be on staff in September.
“As we do that, a couple of our old nurses have left so it’s always a work on the way which is of replacing who is leaving while trying to bring in and fill the slacks that we have. It’s not as good as I would like it to be.”
She added that the BVIHSA has begun to track down and work with Virgin Islanders who are overseas. “We have been doing a pretty good job of that we have five VIslander doctors that just came home and are on staff and we have nurses that are going to finish in the next year or so. We have people out studying and we are waiting for them to finish and to come back home for those kind of things, but for the other fields we have a little bit more of a challenge in terms of how do we get them in.”
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