Julia Molleston is an honors pupil from Fayetteville, Arkansas at present pursuing a Bachelor of Science in nursing. She was awarded an Honors School Examine Overseas Grant to spend a semester in Eire in the summertime between her junior and senior years as a part of the Well being Care and Social Companies in Eire program.
Visiting the Cliffs of Moher on the japanese coast of the Republic of Eire.
I studied overseas in Eire for 2 and a half weeks as a result of I needed to expertise the well being tradition of a rustic that makes use of a public healthcare system. As a part of the Well being Care and Social Companies in Eire program, I spent one week in Limerick, one week in Galway and 4 days in Dublin.
I’ve an curiosity in working as a world journey nurse in Europe, and Eire is among the international locations I’m contemplating, as there can be no language barrier. This was the proper program to permit me to look at the Well being Service Govt (HSE), Eire’s publicly funded healthcare system.
The group I traveled with discovered in regards to the every day lifetime of each healthcare customers and suppliers in quite a lot of settings. We have been additionally inspired to benefit from educational and social cultural alternatives, which offered a useful addition to our time within the classroom. I hope to make use of these experiences in Eire to information my future as knowledgeable with an curiosity in dwelling overseas.
Throughout my examine overseas journey, some moments that stood out to me have been people who inspired collaboration between the interprofessional majors in my group. We had pre-medical, pre-occupational remedy, psychology, social work and nursing college students on the journey, and after visiting completely different websites we in contrast what we noticed and discovered based mostly on our completely different medical/social service backgrounds. This was a tremendous solution to get perception into how one other skilled views a corporation or the fashion of healthcare being offered to residents, sufferers, and college students round Eire. By these collaborations as a bunch, we have been higher in a position to admire completely different skilled views.
I consider there may be nothing extra priceless to educational and private development than visiting different cultures and growing cultural competency. If somebody is contemplating examine overseas choices, I’d advocate selecting a program longer than you suppose you’re comfy with. In the event you suppose two weeks is sweet, go for the month-long journey. In case you are occupied with a 6-week journey, apply for the semester.
Put together to be challenged—by strangers, environments and conditions. However permit the challenges to show you to be comfy within the uncomfortable whereas rising as professionals, people, and mates.
