Can you guess where this place is? Thinking of somewhere outside Karachi? Wrong! This is not located on the outskirts of the city, rather situated right in the heart of the city, in the country's most technologically advanced simulation centre. Surprised? That's how the post-RN BScN students felt when they explored this area during briefing for the first of, hopefully many, rural community-based simulation at CIMEABAD in CIME courtyard.
The 'Advanced Concepts in Community Health Nursing' course led by Assistant Professor Parpio and funded by a 'Scholarship in Teaching and Learning' grant, prepares graduates to address the healthcare needs of the nation and community. Traditional classroom teaching is insufficient to prepare city-based students to deal with the harsh reality of rural community life. Public health issues over nutrition, cleanliness and sanitation create safety challenges compounded by orthodox perceptions and health beliefs of the community stakeholders. Acknowledging this, SONAM faculty teamed with CIME experts in organising a simulation-based course to familiarize nursing students with rural community healthcare and through experiential learning, prepared them to more fully understand and confidently undertake their role as a community health nurse.
The village community set-up – from now on to be called 'CIMEABAD' and previously featured in this newsletter, beautifully re-creates a picturesque, rural ideal. A centrally situated meeting place for the community and its stakeholders was created on the advice of the SONAM team, to enable discussions between the community health nurses and community leaders to identify and prioritize the most pressing health issues of the community and design a plan to fight against it. Of course, being a simulated environment within CIME, we were able to adapt and improvise our recording and debriefing technologies within this open space to facilitate an effective debriefing process.
This course was very well received by students who felt empowered after experiencing such a high fidelity simulation which was made very close to reality. One of the participants during debriefing expressed her views: “it was very realistic as we were not sitting in air-conditioned classrooms to learn community health nursing but were exposed to the real environment under the harsh scorching sunlight, dealing with even more harsh simulated community representatives. Community health nursing is a tough job, I think I underestimated it before…"
Now that CIMEABAD is up and running, we're looking for more ideas for its utilization. Any takers?
Can you guess where this place is? Thinking of somewhere outside Karachi? Wrong! This is not located on the outskirts of the city, rather situated right in the heart of the city, in the country's most technologically advanced simulation centre. Surprised? That's how the post-RN BScN students felt when they explored this area during briefing for the first of, hopefully many, rural community-based simulation at CIMEABAD in CIME courtyard.
The 'Advanced Concepts in Community Health Nursing' course led by Assistant Professor Parpio and funded by a 'Scholarship in Teaching and Learning' grant, prepares graduates to address the healthcare needs of the nation and community. Traditional classroom teaching is insufficient to prepare city-based students to deal with the harsh reality of rural community life. Public health issues over nutrition, cleanliness and sanitation create safety challenges compounded by orthodox perceptions and health beliefs of the community stakeholders. Acknowledging this, SONAM faculty teamed with CIME experts in organising a simulation-based course to familiarize nursing students with rural community healthcare and through experiential learning, prepared them to more fully understand and confidently undertake their role as a community health nurse.
The village community set-up – from now on to be called 'CIMEABAD' and previously featured in this newsletter, beautifully re-creates a picturesque, rural ideal. A centrally situated meeting place for the community and its stakeholders was created on the advice of the SONAM team, to enable discussions between the community health nurses and community leaders to identify and prioritize the most pressing health issues of the community and design a plan to fight against it. Of course, being a simulated environment within CIME, we were able to adapt and improvise our recording and debriefing technologies within this open space to facilitate an effective debriefing process.
This course was very well received by students who felt empowered after experiencing such a high fidelity simulation which was made very close to reality. One of the participants during debriefing expressed her views: “it was very realistic as we were not sitting in air-conditioned classrooms to learn community health nursing but were exposed to the real environment under the harsh scorching sunlight, dealing with even more harsh simulated community representatives. Community health nursing is a tough job, I think I underestimated it before…"
Now that CIMEABAD is up and running, we're looking for more ideas for its utilization. Any takers?