Like everything else that I come across in Africa the hospital seems full of contradictions. The resources are scanty. There are insufficient nurses, and few doctors, the medical function being carried out by clinical officers who undergo 3 years of training for the role. Many are excellent, others less so. Patients come to hospital with […]
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Nursing College Malawi Style
I have come to Malawi with two fellow students, and we are staying in the nursing college with all the local nursing students. The buildings are surrounded by grass, avocado and mango trees and the campus is a twenty minute stroll through lush undergrowth from the compact town centre with its market brimming with fresh […]
Student Nurse in Malawi
For my elective placement I have come to Malawi in Sub-Saharan Africa. I have never been to Africa and do not know what to expect. My aims are to experience first hand the health care system in a developing country, see what place evidence based nursing has here and, of course get to know the […]
Calm
The Emergency Department is not like I imagined. It either seems to be full to bursting point, or almost empty; the patients never come in a steady flow. The nature of the complaints varies in a never ending cycle – the Friday night drunks, the Sunday morning sporting injuries, the early morning chest pain. There […]
Confidence Intervals
It is well recognised that many students and qualified nurses alike struggle to get their heads around statistics. Confidence intervals are essential to understanding nursing research, but can instil feelings of blind panic in the uninitiated. Like so many technical concepts they are intimidating when you don’t understand them, but not so difficult once you […]