Student nurses Wisconsin Reach Out in Africa

Wisconsin nursing students Reach Out in Africa during the past three years, College of nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh?s students have had the opportunity to gain clinical experience in the India. This spring, the students made his first trip to Africa.

Thirteen students traveled to Iganga, Uganda, where they spent almost a month working in hospitals and participate in the clinic focused on prenatal care, hygiene and preventive care in urban and rural schools outreach programmes.

Apart from their loans while satisfying requirements for a degree of bachelor?s clinical skills, students brought much-needed items, including medical supplies and books, school supplies, toothbrushes and 500 pairs of glasses donations.

Mixed cultures

Faculty of the school of education and human services have offered ?Seminar globalization: Africa?s Experience? since 2005, which will carry four groups of students at two groups Kenya and Uganda and paving the way for College Nursing?s latest study abroad program.Patti VanderLoop, Clinical Assistant Professor at UW-Oshkosh, said that the experiences of the India and Uganda are important for students because focus on cultural understanding and students develop an awareness of their own culture.

?They learn the importance of communication and recognize the differences in values, ?, said.

The inner journey

Lindsey Walker, a senior at UW-Oshkosh, which had never been outside of the United States of enrolling in the clinicals in Uganda, was inspired by VanderLoop?s nursing student tells of Uganda.

Largest ?The culture shock was the health care system ?, said Walker, ?It?s Mazomanie, Wisconsin not very advanced, which makes it very difficult to adapt to what they have and what they believe. ?

Walker and his colleagues working in hospitals with Busoga.También University nursing students participated in the clinic outreach programmes, focusing on prenatal care, hygiene, and how to prevent and to recognize the signs of the blindness of the rivers, which is caused by bacteria in charge of a black fly.

Walker said he won confidence in approaching people from other cultures and people who speak a language diferente.El most rewarding aspect of Walker was to see how students? work made a difference.

?When us first arrived there, nurses performs any kind of comfort measures for women in labour, which is why we show them how to rub the use of didn?t patients? and taught new positions and breathing exercises to relieve pressure on the back, ? Walker said. ?Before which we leave, we have seen some of the nurses in the implementation of such técnicas.Realmente made an impact. ?

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