Highlights
Congratulations, Mountain View College.
Of the 20 best performing nursing schools in the Philippines, Mountain View College School of Nursing ranks 10th on the list. Rating is based on performance of graduates in professional licensure exams and eligibility tests culled from the records of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), the agency that administers licensure examinations, and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), the agency that supervises such higher learning institutions in the Philippines. Mountain View has very good company. The first nine schools include University of the Philippines--Manila, St Paul's College, Iloilo; Silliman University, University of Santo Tomas, West Visayas State University.Elizabeth Johnston-Taylor (LLUSN faculty) lectures in Korea
Elizabeth Johnston-Taylor was an invited speaker for the 150th Anniversary Conference of the Catholic University of Korea on Spiritual Care at the End of Life, May 19, 2005. Prior to the conference, Elizabeth also lectured at Sahmyook University (our SDA university in Seoul) and at Seoul Adventist Hospital.
She writes "While on the campus of Sahmyook University, I gave a keynote address on Spiritual Care of Elders for a gerontological nursing conference. What perhaps was more enjoyable, however, was the hour I spent lecturing and interacting with their graduate students in a required Spiritual Care course. I also lectured for faculty, students, and staff at the Sahmyook College of Nursing and Allied Health on the campus of Seoul Adventist Hospital. (Here, it was not only informative for me to hear what are the concerns and questions of Korean nurses, but it was also nostalgic for me to be lecturing at the hospital where I was born!) After my stint with the Adventists, I went to Catholic University of Korea to present a paper on Spiritual Care at the End of Life at a 3-day multidisciplinary symposium convened to celebrate their 150th anniversary".
Kathie Ingram & Dolores Wright (LLUSN faculty) take students on outreach location in Kanye, Africa
Alternative clinical experiences can be enjoyable and a valuable learning experience for both students and faculty. In Summer Quarter, 2004, a total of nine students and two faculty from Loma Linda University School of Nursing traveled to Kanye, Botswana, Africa for a once-in-a-lifetime learning experience. Eight of the nine students were in Community/Public Health Nursing Course and one student was in the Professional Nursing Practice elective.
Prior to going on the trip, students completed the class work for the community course. The coordinator and originator of this international clinical alternative met with the nine students regularly as they planned for this experience. During the month in Botswana, students (divided into two groups) volunteered daily in two Primary Care Clinics in the town of Kanye. Each group of students completed the written assignment of the Community Project utilizing the nursing process on a selected aggregate population.
Along with the formal learning experience, opportunities existed to assist with the children at the local church and to experience a real African safari. Both students and faculty agreed on the value of this experience and expressed the desire that this program continue. One of the realizations the students came home with was the very great importance of nursing in the majority world where nurses provide the first line care and physician care is a rarity.
Nelia Caan (LLU associate librarian) delivered a two-hour CE lecture to nurses in Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital in HangZhou, China on March 31, 2005.Nelia outlined 5 easy steps for integrating information into clinical practice, beginning with identifying patient care issues, focusing on a specific issue that is important to the nurse, digging deeper into these issues by conducting a literature review and soliciting ideas from other nurses, identifying gaps of information and deciding how to fill these gaps through their own research, and eventually publishing to share their findings with other nurses. Nelia also demonstrated how to conduct a search for research and clinical information using PubMed, the National Library of Medicine's largest international biomedical database.