Staff’s Children Nursery
Since its establishment, Hospital 57357 management was keen to establish a nursery for staff’s children, to guaranty employees’ peace of mind and stability especially doctors, nurses, and female employees, which contribute to performance improvement and increased productivity.
The role performed by the nursery:
The vision of Hospital 57357’s management for the nursery for the staff’s children goes beyond a place for them to spend time while their parents are working. As such, they pursue through the nursery to teach children basic sciences, in addition to languages. Educational programs were prepared for each age category according to the following directives:
- Developing the child’s capabilities in terms of learning, cognitive skills, thinking, understanding, and imagination.
- Training the child on being independent during the period he stays away of the parents while they are at work.
- Teaching the child communicational skills, which starts with synchronized movement for one year olds, speaking, reading,Searching for each child’s hobby, and working on developing it and drawing for three-year-olds.
- Developing the child’s capabilities of conversation and expressing his thoughts and feelings.
- Searching for each child’s hobby, and working on developing it.
- Developing children’s feelings of gratitude, self-confidence and expressing their desires.
The nursery caretakers
Considering the staff nursery as a pre- school, there were certain required conditions and qualifications to be met by the staff the most important of which are the following:
- Having basic sciences for pre-school stage.
- Having English, French and German languages, where these languages are taught to the nursery children.
- Having patience while dealing with children and ability to interact with them.
- Ability to direct each child based on his capabilities and hobbies.
- Ability to understand the child’s psychology and emotions especially during early years.
The nursery achievements:
- Doubling the number of children that are admitted, where it used to host 135 children and offer them all services and entertainment activities.
- Offering the breakfast meal for children aged two years or more where the nursery accepts children from the age of three months to four years.
- Establishing classes for teaching Arabic, English, French, and German, in addition to math and science.
- Setting up a program for children’s admission and departure.
- Teaching children how to pray and read Quran.
- Holding an entertainment day every week.
- Dedicating time for fitness exercises three times a week.
- Sanitizing the nursery every two hours.
- A medical checkup service in the emergency department was added.
- Hosting children from the age of three months instead of six months.
- A weekly meeting for teachers to raise their efficiency.
- Placing furniture that suits children’s age, in terms of height and colors.
- Placing a suitable screen where children watch cartoons and musical programs.
The nursery beneficiaries:
The number of the nursery’s beneficiaries is 192 employees including doctors, nurses, and administrative staff. The number of children registered in the nursery is 274 children.