Education Philippines Project #22797

Help 50 students Continue Nursing Education

by Foundation University

Project Report | Dec 6, 2017
Student Nurses Teach and Learn from the Community

By Dean Sinco | Project Leader

Community immersions and healthcare work in far-flung communities has been a part of the training experience for student nurses. This is where they will learn to apply what they have learned from the four-walled classroom and share it to the people to better their living conditions in the aspect of sanitation, health and wellness.

During the process, the nurses will learn to simplify or to translate into simple language the learnings and theories in public health which will be deemed helpful to a certain locality. They also earn a sense of consciousness on what is the pressing need of the people in order to address that needs.

Student nurses also earn a higher sense of responsibility in their chosen profession in the future. Aside from sharing what their acquired knowledge, in turn, they also learn from the community as they conduct an informal survey on the present situation in their homes and villages. From that point, they acquire an idea on how they can be of help to that specific locality.

Meanwhile, one rising problem in most communities is environmental degradation more so in the aspect of the bodies of water. Rivers, in most cases, are the primary water sources of upland communities.

As nurses advocate the protection of the environment as a whole, this will deepen the understanding of the community. This will improve their healthcare situation and one best way to avoid water-borne diseases.

Here, we can see the essential role of nurses, even the student nurses, who are immersed into the communities as they advocate for better health and for better living conditions.

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Sep 8, 2017
The Cycle of Educating and Equipping Nurses for Efficient Healthcare Service

By Dean Sinco | Project Leader

Healthcare education in the country has gone more and more expensive and continues to appear as a hindrance for young people and makes them to leave aside the eagerness to enter the healthcare practice and to enroll in the field of nursing.

More than the intelligent and critical thinker, a nurse needs to possess that sense of service and commitment to better other people's lives through efficient healthcare teaching and practice.

The willingness to serve at par with the right skills and training from a very nurturing and enabling school like Foundation University College of Nursing, empowers the student who will later become a future licensed nurse to overcome the challenges and efficiently deliver service the patients. Round the year, the college makes it a point to educate and equip the student nurses and prepare them for work.

For the recent passers of the Nurse Licensure Examination from FU College of Nursing, the journey to full employment and service to the people in the community, hospitals and for a few, in the academe, is about the begin.

The four years spent in the College of Nursing, the theories learned and the skills acquired, will not be put into flesh and rightful practice, all for the common good of the society.

Meanwhile, another journey begins for the student nurses after the ceremonial candle-lighting rites to signify the start of their immersion in hospitals and in the community. Thus, the rite signals the new chapter opened for student nurses.

And the cycle continues every single year. Products of FU College of Nursing are sent off to the community to be of service to the people. With every student nurse and nursing alumnus being sent off comes the opportunity to contribute to the welfare our country in the aspect of healthcare services.

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Jun 12, 2017
Empowering Student Nurses for Community Service

By Dean Sinco | Project Leader

The University’s core values of excellence, commitment, integrity and service has greatly affected the lives of students who passed the its hallowed pillars for the last 68 years.

But it is the core value of service that commonly triggers students' deep realizations and fuels them to share their acquired knowledge and put it into practice, as a contribution for the greater good of the community.

Foundation University College of Nursing has been aware of its essential role in molding student nurses to become persons of service.

Within the four years of stay at the college, they are not only taught theories and equipped with the right skills but the mentors never forget to inculcate the value of service – one essential factor of being a nursing practitioner.

Through the years, the college has been responsible in developing the sense of service in each of the student nurses.

But before sending off student nurses to the community, they are given trainings and activities that could better and make themselves aware of their personality and behavior. Such activities which will develop intrapersonal and interpersonal communication.

It is important for student nurses to be self-aware or simply, to know their strengths and more so, weaknesses in order for them to cope with the pressures, possible problems and difficulties to be encountered during the conduct their community service.

Through self-awareness activities, student nurses are in a way empowered to take on the responsibility they will soon hold as professional healthcare professionals who are of great relevance to the community.

Such trainings open the minds of student nurses to the realities of the world and thus, giving them an opportunity to think deeper and reconsider the results of their actions while being immersed in the community where they are called to serve and dedicate their efforts for the common good.

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