Students Share Vietnam Experience
By Hadthiah PD Hazair

Bandar Seri Begawan - Thirty students from the Pengiran Anak Puteri Rashidah Sa'adatul Bolkiah (PAPRSB) College of Nursing who went on an eight-day educational trip to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam last June, shared their knowledge and experiences at a report presentation last Saturday.

Dyg Surayati, a teacher at the college said that the annual visits help to strengthen team work between teaching staff and students. The self-funded trip was aimed towards learning about the nursing and midwifery educational system at selected institutes in Vietnam. It was participated by students of nursing and midwifery course at the PAPRSB Nursing College.

Much of the students' presentation was focussed on university and degree based programmes offered at the many medical institution in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City.

They learnt that lack of resources apparently did not hinder the Vietnamese nurses from keeping themselves up with the up-to-date nursing practices. The Vietnamese students also used life models as a learning tool where at the Health Care training centre, donated cadavers were examined for training purposes.

In his speech, the guest of honour, Dr Hj Abd Hamit Hj Musa, Acting Director of Nursing Services advised students to use their educational trips to realise the importance of a patient's cultural background. "Being a nurse requires you to take a holistic view of the patient... Discipline is important," he said, adding that perhaps in the future students can also consider taking similar trips to Korea and Japan.

At the presentation, the students also shared with their course mates photos of their visits to places of interests in Vietnam and entertained the audience with a colourful Vietnamese dance.  -- Courtesy of The Brunei Times

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