1. The student found the COIL project to be a positive opportunity to collaborate with other Asian nursing students over 4 weeks and learn from their experiences responding to public health demands.
2. In the first session, the student discovered similarities in culture and public health values with other students, as well as a shared mission to become competent nurses.
3. Community health nursing practices were found to have similarities such as beginning with community diagnosis and screening, but may differ depending on each country's nursing program.
4. The main challenge was difficulty understanding some presentations due to audio quality, but the student was motivated to learn from others at a higher year level and differences in nursing programs.
1. The student found the COIL project to be a positive opportunity to collaborate with other Asian nursing students over 4 weeks and learn from their experiences responding to public health demands.
2. In the first session, the student discovered similarities in culture and public health values with other students, as well as a shared mission to become competent nurses.
3. Community health nursing practices were found to have similarities such as beginning with community diagnosis and screening, but may differ depending on each country's nursing program.
4. The main challenge was difficulty understanding some presentations due to audio quality, but the student was motivated to learn from others at a higher year level and differences in nursing programs.
1. The student found the COIL project to be a positive opportunity to collaborate with other Asian nursing students over 4 weeks and learn from their experiences responding to public health demands.
2. In the first session, the student discovered similarities in culture and public health values with other students, as well as a shared mission to become competent nurses.
3. Community health nursing practices were found to have similarities such as beginning with community diagnosis and screening, but may differ depending on each country's nursing program.
4. The main challenge was difficulty understanding some presentations due to audio quality, but the student was motivated to learn from others at a higher year level and differences in nursing programs.
1. The student found the COIL project to be a positive opportunity to collaborate with other Asian nursing students over 4 weeks and learn from their experiences responding to public health demands.
2. In the first session, the student discovered similarities in culture and public health values with other students, as well as a shared mission to become competent nurses.
3. Community health nursing practices were found to have similarities such as beginning with community diagnosis and screening, but may differ depending on each country's nursing program.
4. The main challenge was difficulty understanding some presentations due to audio quality, but the student was motivated to learn from others at a higher year level and differences in nursing programs.
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DE CHAVEZ, Michaela P.
University of Santo Tomas (Philippines)
3rd year – College of Nursing Assoc. Prof. Ritzmond Loa, Assoc. Prof. Leah Navarro
COLLABORATIVE INTERNATIONAL ONLINE LEARNING
(COIL) PROGRAM FIRST SESSION – NOVEMBER 13, 2020
1. Describe your thoughts about this COIL project. Are they mostly positive or negative?
My thoughts about this COIL project was definitely positive even before the beginning of the program. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for us UST Nursing students to actually collaborate with our neighboring Asian countries. In a duration of 4 weeks, I am really expecting that I would learn a lot from them especially on how they respond to public health demands and having that in mind of course prepare myself every week so that they could learn from me too. The objectives were explained well and I think it is really feasible given that we have a limited time to cover all the activities.
2. What were the things that you discovered about other students, their institution, country, or culture after the first sessions?
During the initial session, I discovered that we almost have the same culture in terms of how much regard on respect of space and values on our fellow countrymen we have, how we recognize public health concerns. We have the same mission and vision on how to become a competent nursing student and how we can prowess excellency in nursing field/profession in future endeavors.
3. What are the similarities and differences of community health nursing practice in your country and others?
The similarities in terms of community health nursing practice in my country and other Asian countries is that we also have the same routine in terms of community diagnosis as we also begin within the smallest unit of our community and from the initial community assignment, we began on health screening, identifying the main problem of the community and what we really need to pay our focus on that day of the duty, ensuring the we prepared the site or health center in terms of organizing the admission of patients, they also do health education with aid of visuals, provide exercises and of course evaluate the patient through teach back or return demo.
4. What were the challenges or difficulties that you experienced during the first session? How did you cope up?
The challenges or difficulties I experienced during the first session was that I am having a hard time to understand the videos presented by my fellow COIL members from different countries maybe because of the audio quality but I tried my best to understand it and absorb all the content they offer since I am very eager to get to know them. The fact that they are also a year level ahead of us made me a little hesitant of the knowledge and ability I have or if they can actually learn something from me, but I put my mind to it in a sense that we still differ in terms of the nursing program we have in USTCON and I think we can learn something from the differences that we have.
5. What is the most important thing that you learned from the first session that maybe useful for you or in your future practices as professional nurse?
The most important thing that I learned during the first session that I can highly utilize is that the power of being able to adapt. As a future professional nurse, with that being said I became even more motivated to excel in my craft as varying health care needs are waiting for me after I graduate significantly being flexible, critical and adaptable. Advocating for the healthcare of the patients and work with them and their families to evaluate which care plan is right for their situation. The biggest difference is throughout all of the normal nursing duties, we must constantly be aware of commonly occurring health problems and specialize in working with all the population in need.
6. What do you expect in the next session?
My expectation in the next session is that all of the COIL members would participate more since we are to begin the planned activity proper and continuously get to know them personally.
What do you plan to do to meet your personal objectives, and the COIL program objectives?
I plan to prepare more by reading and studying about the topic we have to share and discuss with our fellow COIL members. I also need to interact with them more by asking questions and initiating discussions just so we could understand and appreciate more the topic and seize the opportunity and platform to connect with them given for that day.
