COUNTRY: Nepal
PROGRAM: UniBreak Groups
PROJECT: Nursing
WRITTEN BY: Central Queensland University Nursing Group, Geena Lawn
Today was our last day at Fishtail hospital. The farewell program was a fantastic ending to a wonderful beginning.
We started our 1.5 week program with orientation to the hospital which included an extensive ward orientation and meeting the wonderful staff. Our sisters in nursing and the fellow medical members at Fishtail hospital were so welcoming and friendly, this made our short time here at the hospital feel very worth while. Our time at Fishtail has been a fantastic experience which has allowed us to visit surgical, paediatric, intensive care unit, medical, outpatient departments and the operating theatre. The outpatient departments created many great opportunities for the students to be involved in. Outpatients department consisted of the students being able to sit in on consultations with doctors from orthopaedics, gynaecology/obstetrics, physiotherapy, psychiatry, radiology and the endoscopy procedure rooms.
Every student got to be rotated around and we all had great experiences that will stay with us forever! This experience was fantastic but not as great as the operating theatre experiences. Dr Pradeep Ghirmire, had allowed some students to scrub in on many surgeries including ingunial hernia repairs, total abdominal hysterectomies and even Caesarian Sections which was a fantastic once in a lifetime experience to be able to assist in the delivery of a big healthy baby boy! All in all the hospital clinical experience was fantastic as we were also tutored in ICU by Dr Trudy Dwyer as she is our critical care cardio queen and those rotating through paediatrics were educated thoroughly by the one and only Professor Kerry Reid Searl. Words cannot explain how wonderful it has been to be able to be welcomed into such a lovely hospital with such gratitude and have the ability to be continually learning by the sides of our fabulous group leaders. As group A celebrated their farewell program at the Fishtail University, we were graciously welcomed at the same time. This program was filled with singing and dancing which was fabulous! Here group A delivered 3 monetary scholarships to the deserving students in first, second and third year.
Everyday at Fishtail hospital, our shifts finished at 10am and we would visit a range of public and other health clinics and hospitals regarding a specific lecture topic we had received at fishtail.Our first day finished early and after lunch we went and visited the privately run Maternity and Children's hospital which is a 20 bed facility. Throughout the next 2 weeks we had visited the public maternity ward at Manapal hospital, leprosy green pastures rehabilitation centre, HIV and drug rehabilitation centre and the Buddisht Nunnery which is where girls are donated by their families at a very young age, this is seen to be a great honour, and they migrate into Pokhara during the winter as it is too cold for them to stay in the mountains where they live. These girls were so beautiful and lovely, they harmonised incredibly well whenever a camera came out all you could hear were beautiful ringing sounds of CHEESE! The rehabilitation clinics provide fantastic help to those who need it and the clients receive the best care possible hitch was fantastic to see.
During our stay in Pokhara we also visited Pokhara University where we donated another 3 scholarships to the deserving students also in first, second and third year if their studies. This program was also wonderful and full of dancing and singing and games.
Our final program was at Fishtail hospital on our last day in Pokhara. Dr Pradeep had begun with education regarding tuberculosis and then followed through with our short farewell program that included a discussion about what we had learnt while on placement at Fishtail and then we were blessed and given beautiful tokens of love and certificates.
We all had a wonderful time in Pokhara and at Fishtail hospital and we are all very sad to say goodby to this beautiful city but also very excited about our last few days traveling Nepal. We would all love to say thank you to the Fishtail hospital staff and also our fearless leaders who have done a fantastic job facilitating our learning while abroad.
The pictures below are the donations we have made to the Pokhara university, nunnery and HIV clinic as well as giving an education session on manual handling at the university.
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