June 9, 2008 (9AM)... The Northeastern College - Nursing Department is now on its third Affiliation in the three specialized Tertiary Hospitals in Manila namely San LAzaro Hospital, National Center for Mental Health and Philippine Orthopedic Center. The fourth year Nursing students were assigned in 2 Batches. Block A and B comprises the 1st Batch while Block C comprises the second batch.
The 85 students were accompanied by 5 CIs and the dean of the college. Ms Maricel Manuzon and Ms Noralyn Ualat are handling students at NCMH, Mr Arthur Garcia and the Dean are handling students at POC and the two Coordinators, Ms Luisa Valencia, Clinical Coordinator and yours truly, Academic Coordinator are handling students at San Lazaro Hospital. To make sure that students are well prepared for their exposure at the 3 hospitals, concepts on CommunicABLE dISEASE nursing were incorporated in their NCM 102 while 4 units of their NCM 104 was offered last summer 20o8 and this includes Psychiatric Nursing and Orthopedic Nursing.
Students are housed at the Good Sheperd LAdies Dorm in Sampaloc. Rules and regulations are imposed to ensure order.
Though the experience is a lot different from QPH, the school's base hospital, still it was noted that the BSNstudents of NC competes with the other students from City schools in terms of skills//
And for that, Im proud...
The first week passed. At the end of the weekend, 40+ students were grounded due to varied violations.
But all in all, it still amazes me how people react to different situations.. how they improve as nurses and as people!!!
This is just the beginning.
