Hey hey,
We are Antoine, Danielle and Simone and we arrived in South-Africa last week. We are all in the last year of nursing school at Avans University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. The start of our project was on monday 16th of February so we had a week to adjust to the beautiful weather of Cape Town and getting to know our surroundings. Our project will be focussing on the implementation of e-learning for nurses mainly in the Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town. We will also be implementing e-learning at the N1City hospital in Cape Town. This is a project that’s been going on for over 2 years at the Groote Schuur hospital which started small with a couple of nurses on nursing wards but has been expending ever since! The digital environment provides different interactive modules like Basic Life Support(BLS), IV-therapy, computer literacy etc. It’s a fun way to learn for nurses and to improve the quality of care in the hospital(s). Though we are able to develop modules ourselves we will be focussing on implementing the e-learning and the outroll of the modules on different wards so we can reach a larger group of nurses.
We all feel that working on this project is a privilage. it’s an exciting, challenging and unique project in South-Africa. Cape Town has many to offer when you are free so it also feels a bit like a holiday in the weekends! One of our first experiences here was the church meeting in one of the Townships around Cape Town which we could attend because of our cleaning lady at home. People were dancing and singing and we all joined the party and one of us even had to come up and dance in front off the crowd. Ít’s a great impression of a cultural aspect of the country and an experience to remember!
The upcoming week we are still introducing ourselves to the hospitals and gradually make our project plan for the following months. It’s not really clear which wards and modules we are going to pursue in both hospitals but we are continually discussing this with our supervisors. The next week we will have a plan ready in which we lay out the activities and strategy on how we’re going to combine implementing in both hospitals. We’ll keep you updated and if you have any questions please let us know.
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