{"id":24,"date":"2010-05-19T14:49:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T13:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/?p=24"},"modified":"2011-11-07T11:02:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T10:02:34","slug":"student-nurse-in-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/2010\/05\/19\/student-nurse-in-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Nurse in Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my elective placement I have come to Malawi in Sub-Saharan Africa.\u00a0 I have never been to Africa and do not know what to expect.\u00a0 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 people and the country.\u00a0 What can I say about Africa?\u00a0 Exasperating, hot, shocking, addictive, religious, sad, joyous, friendly, corrupt, dangerous, poor in purse but rich in spirit\u2026.I could go on.\u00a0 No amount of reading can prepare you for Africa.\u00a0 Like many of the western visitors I meet whilst I am there, I am simultaneously appalled by it, and yet love it.\u00a0 Africa as they rightly say gets under your skin.<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-25\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/2010\/05\/19\/student-nurse-in-malawi\/dscf0589_sma\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25\" title=\"DSCF0589_sma\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/files\/2010\/05\/DSCF0589_sma.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my elective placement I have come to Malawi in Sub-Saharan Africa.\u00a0 I have never been to Africa and do not know what to expect.\u00a0 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 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/2010\/05\/19\/student-nurse-in-malawi\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}