Learning Together across Nursing Studies
Throughout the Nursing Studies department, staff and students are learning together.
One of the taught MSc Courses is Professional and Personal Development run by course director Dr Aisha Holloway.
The class meet once a week for coffee before the lecture and has established friendships and knowledge exchange, a way to get different opinions about problem-solving and discuss with others.
I love the coffee sessions since I can hear something new. In addition, it is a good time to have interactions with others (Alan, Macao)
One of the most enjoyable aspects of this course was the weekly and very constructive coffee sessions we had before lecture. It was a great initiative from the program director that really helped me to improve my confidence and expression in a foreign country and make some friendships. (Michael, Cyprus)
The coffee time is so lovely and make us know each other better and reflect on our experience every week (Amira, Saudi Arabia)
I love the coffee sessions because we tend to exchange on anything (school, shoes, clothes, life …) as a group. I feel it’s important especially for we who are far from home and don’t really know people and places here in Edinburgh (Christelle, Cameroon)
I really enjoy the coffee in the Wednesday morning. It shortens the distance between I and other classmates to some extents. We chat with each other like friends and gradually we become friends of each other. It is necessary for us to contact each other outside the class (Yin Yueheng ,China)
The first years have also been learning together, either new clinical skills or in the anatomy laboratory! Working in pairs or groups in a variety of settings, they are getting to know each other and learning from each other.
Each week the class visit the clinical skills centre based at the Chancellors building, RIE. This weeks focus was blood pressure and pulse measurement.
Some students were adamant that they did not have a pulse! But, with some assistance from the staff at the clinical skills centre, all students did find their pulse! We moved on to look at blood pressure. The students were able to learn from each other using manual sphygmomanometers and double headed stethoscopes, to listen two at a time to the ‘tapping’ or Korotkoff sounds.
Thanks to all the students for sharing their views for this blog piece 🙂
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