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University of Birmingham 2012
Culture was also evident in the day to day running of the general hospital, as although there are similarities between UK nursing and Sri Lankan nursing there were also differences. For example, instead of just doing IV’s for your patients, you had one nurse doing all of the IV’s.
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University of Manchester 2012
From my time in Kandy I really got to see the role of the Sri Lankan nurse in comparison to the UK.
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University of Alberta Medicine 2012
The approach to delivering healthcare in a resource-limited setting was something I took back into my training in Canada.
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University of Adelaide 2012
A month before we were meant to leave our independently organised elective was cancelled. We called Work the World and they arranged electives in our chosen fields around our flight dates.
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Keele University 2012
If I were to use one word to sum up my time in Sri Lanka it would be ‘amazing’. It is an experience full of fabulous memories which will stay with me forever.
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