Stobdan Kalon
About Stobdan Kalon
Role(s) / Profession(s)
- Manager (Site/Facility, Program, Project)
- Physician
Organization
- Médecins Sans Frontières - MSF
Work Location(s)
- Armenia
Stobdan's Communities
Language(s)
Recent Contributions
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Stobdan Kalon replied to "Nurse-Patient ratio in MDR TB Hospital" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.
correction of the typo in my posting above: its "nurse:patient ratio" Hi Julia, Thanks for cross posting my question into the Nursing and Midwifery community. Just to add...it is difficult to come to a consensus with local authorities in the countries of former Soviet Union where we work, on these issues as they still follow the general Soviet staffing norms that is not adapted to MDR TB needs, as a result care is often not ...
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Stobdan Kalon replied to "Nurse-Patient ratio in MDR TB Hospital" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.
Dear Grigory, Thanks for your response and suggestions. I fully agree with you it stems from all these factors you mentioned. As far as TB IC is concerned, together with other partners we have just started to improve things but a long way to go. Our NTP colleagues are looking for training possibilities for their staff- I am glad to hear they could receive that at the Vladimir Center of Excellence for TB IC. Could ...
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Stobdan Kalon replied to "Nurse-Patient ratio in MDR TB Hospital" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.
Dear Grigory, Thanks for sharing experience of how your centre is managing these issues even though the nurse:patient ratio seems rather similar. Sure as you say, better organisation and approach to patient care (TB IC) could improve things. However its an interesting comparision that in non-FSU settings especially western countries typically infectious diseases unit have a ratio of 1 nurse for about 5 patients. It would be very interesting to hear opinion of some HR ...
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Stobdan Kalon replied to "Nurse-Patient ratio in MDR TB Hospital" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.
Dear Grigory, I again agree with you that we cannot and should attempt to blindly transplant practices & norms from different contexts. But my question is what is the minimum acceptable standards and why to compromise on this issue when we are moving forward on other issues like treatment, infection control, and why live with old standards & norms as we have to ensure a minimum acceptable quality of care. In my experience I have ...
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Stobdan Kalon replied to "Nurse-Patient ratio in MDR TB Hospital" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.
Oops again a typo! I meant... "we cannot and should NOT attempt to blindly transplant practices & norms from different contexts" :-)
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