2018, Number 3
Rev Cub Med Int Emerg 2018; 17 (3)
Bachelor’s Degree Oralia González Castillero, Pioneer of Intensive Nursing Care in Cuba
Bejerano GNC, Abdo CAA
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ABSTRACT
A biographic summary is presented about Bachelor’s degree Oralia González Castillero. She graduated as general nurse in 1963, at age 24, at Manuel Fajardo Hospital. From 1964 to 1978, she worked at the Institute for Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery. She devoted herself, among other tasks, to caring for complex surgery patients postoperatively, together with anesthesia- logy and resuscitation specialists. In 1980, she started to work as head of the sterilization area at Center for Medical-Surgical Research. Short time after, she was appointed Head Nurse in the Intensive Care Unit until 1994, just before her retirement. However, she continued to perform other functions in the Center. Besides, in the eighties, she was directly involved with caring the first organ transplants performed in this institution (kidney, pancreas, liver and heart). May this biographic summary be a humble acknowledgment to the life of one of the pioneers of intensive nursing care in Cuba. May this be a role model for new generations to come at this noble task.