Julia Molleston is an honors pupil from Fayetteville, Arkansas at the moment pursuing a Bachelor of Science in nursing. She was awarded an Honors School Research 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 Providers in Eire program.
Visiting the Cliffs of Moher on the jap 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 Providers 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 global journey nurse in Europe, and Eire is likely one of the nations I’m contemplating, as there can be no language barrier. This was the right program to permit me to look at the Well being Service Government (HSE), Eire’s publicly funded healthcare system.
The group I traveled with discovered in regards to the each day lifetime of each healthcare customers and suppliers in a wide range of settings. We have been additionally inspired to benefit from educational and social cultural alternatives, which supplied 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 residing overseas.
Throughout my research 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 totally different websites we in contrast what we noticed and discovered primarily based on our totally different medical/social service backgrounds. This was an incredible option to get perception into how one other skilled views a corporation or the fashion of healthcare being supplied to residents, sufferers, and college students round Eire. Via these collaborations as a bunch, we have been higher capable of respect totally different skilled views.
I consider there may be nothing extra priceless to educational and private progress than visiting different cultures and rising cultural competency. If somebody is contemplating research overseas choices, I might suggest selecting a program longer than you assume you’re comfy with. If you happen to assume two weeks is nice, go for the month-long journey. If you’re desirous about a 6-week journey, apply for the semester.
Put together to be challenged—by strangers, environments and conditions. However enable the challenges to show you to be comfy within the uncomfortable whereas rising as professionals, people, and mates.
