Student Testimonials

- “Through this experience my perspectives about Global Health care has broadened. I have realized that even though healthcare professionals are working in developing countries they still meet their standards of practice of care to the best of their ability. My perspectives have broadened also in that I realize that the ways I have learned my nursing may not always be the only way to do it”

- ”I now feel confident knowing that I was able to work in an environment that was foreign to me and face challenges in comfort levels and communication”

- “I now feel that I have a much deeper level of understanding of health care outside Canada and this knowledge that I have gained will be a benefit to my future practice because I will be able to reflect on my experiences”

- “ I have become quite interested in pursuing more international nursing research or events”

- “I feel I like I could be put in any situation now and I would have confidence and experience to be able to do it”

- “By experiencing this culture, I have changed in the way I look at the world. I have been exposed to so many different experiences on this trip. I have a greater understanding of the Canadian culture. I now look at why we do certain things and understand “the iceberg” or know that there is one”

- “the questions and the ethical issues that we dealt with in Samoa were not provided in a textbook or lecture in our world”

- “I also have gained a sensibility and logic to the role of nurses and our scope of practice”
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