2 full days of teaching!!

Oh I love this teaching! I I love it when they start off the class with this evaluation and to see the answers they mark, a few are wrong, and then by the end of the class they know the correct answers! I'm sometime surprised of the answers they start out with and it just makes me so happy that I get to teach this class! The main part of the class is "Helping babies breathe". I feel like this is just so important and I enjoy so much knowing knowing that these nurses are going away knowing that shaking a baby is not the correct answer for helping a baby to breathe.

Tue I only had three students, so it was a small class and went a little faster as they are very skilled nurses and knew what they were doing already. Wednesday I had 6 nurses again.

We mostly talk about things that needed updating and differences of the new procedures. I tried to give them studies and references so that they would know these aren’t just my American ideas but what is recommended practices all over the world. Global health media has lots of great videos I can show to help me teach.

After class I worked on taking apart and putting back together resuscitation equipment because I’m really not that good at it and here I am trying to teach them how to do it. With some help from Kay and Larissa we figured out how to get all the resuscitation equipment back together and working.

The hospital has been serving us lunch everyday.

We had beans and rice one day, meat with bones and rice the next, and rice and tiny pea gravy type stuff today. All very tasty and so thankful for lunch being served, as the class is about 5-6 hours long.

I then went up to the labor room and the students are so happy to see me! It's so nice to have made all these good friends!

There was a birth going on and a student was in charge. I went right in and said, "oh good you get to practice what we learned in class" I started asking her the five questions I taught they need to ask before you start every birth: " do you know what her risk factors, how many babies she’s had etc". so she answered me and then I turn around to see the principal standing there and he is evaluating this young student on her work on this birth! I didn't even see him there and I didn't mean to interrupt his evaluation! I told him I was sorry and he said "no that’s great, that’s what we want, is for you to teach the students" he said they are students and they need to learn and we appreciate you coming in and helping them learn!" I stayed with them throughout the birth and the evaluation. I was able to put my two cents in now and then.

This group of students will get moved next week, and there will be a new set of students in the maternity ward. So I have a few more days working with this group and next week it will be a whole new group of students!