The School of Nursing of Saint Louis University and the College of Nursing, University of the Cordilleras both located at Baguio City has long sent their student nurses to experience and learn public health and community nursing in the Municipality of Kapangan. Community immersion, unlike hospital learning and the classroom has unique and happy ways of teaching a nursing student some lessons through unforgettable events. Some lessons aren’t learned within the confines of the classroom after all. I requested these blogs from the students during their courtesy call at the clinic. The students responded with gusto and here are their blogs. Read on. Put your feet in their shoes, laugh, smile and learn.
This post from ALYSSA LUZADAS, SLU
It is our first time in this community immersion duty, and like any other person who would come to face his or her first time, there were instances that I was unsure of myself. Questions like “what if’s” bothered my mind it was frustrating and intimidating. We had community duties before, but not as extreme as this. It was an extensive experience and I don’t know if I was confident enough to fulfill it. There were hearsays that made me doubt about my skills as a student nurse, it made my feet move backwards. But all the fear that troubled me were set aside when my foot set its first step on the assigned place to us, Cayapes Kapangan. And the day that I earned so much experiences in this special place made me smile every time.
On our first day, we met a brown dog with a cute furry tail. We were startled by the way he guarded the entrance to our staff house. He was about to attack us like a hungry tiger staring at its snack for the day and barking at us. We were indeed frightened by his acts. I didn’t know what to do since I had a bad experience with dogs. Surely I was scared to death. Our clinical instructor instructed us to stay still and to not make any movements that would trigger him to attack us. We later found out from a resident nearby that the dog had no intentions of hurting us. The truth is it was there to welcome us like all the other nursing students who had their duty there. The dog followed us on our ocular survey to Lokot, Sadel and Dagao. He would happily accompany us to our home visitations. Our group mate baptized the dog and named him ‘Batas’ because he always leads our way to our ocular surveys, he was very close to us and every time we pass by people they always ask us if the dog was ours, he was truly a man’s best friend, a friend we will never forget.
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