In the next few days following Independence Day, we went back to Dr. Jain's to shadow him and his wife! He told us a couple more incredible stories where he had saved patient's lives from infection caused by traumatic events, without having to amputate any limbs. It was incredible....he is an amazing doctor! We also visited the Hospice, however there were only 2 patients present on that particular day, so we read to the primary school children in the day care next door. After reading for about 45 minutes the kid's attention span was quickly decreasing.....so we decided to take them outside and play Land Rover, which is one of their favorite games! Our American version is Red Rover, but the children here say Land Rover. We thought it was so funny! The children are taught to speak very proper English, so instead of saying Red Rover, Red Rover, send Charles on over....they said Land Rover, Land Rover, We want Charles to pass ov
er here. It was too cute!
The following day we had a meeting with some of the women staff and talked about marriages, weddings, and kitchen parties. A kitchen party is a party which can last anywhere from a couple weeks to 3 months and it prepares the men and women for marriage. It was extremely interesting! There are many cultural differences in preparing for marriage and it was really neat to be able to see how much preparation is involved in entering a marriage here. The family is extremely involved and there is a tremendous variety in cultural practices between many marriage partners as well.
On Thursday of this week we left for a Trust, through World Hope, and taught the villagers about nutrition and health promotion for their children. There were many different spiritual beliefs associated with health care practices, which made the teaching a little bit difficult. Many of the practices were related to newborns and the manifestations caused by a lack of adequate nutrition. Diarrhea was also considered a complex problem with children, because if a child got diarrhea there were many assumptions made about the parents and their commitments to each other. We had to clarify that diarrhea comes from bacterial and viral pathogens and that the child's diarrhea had nothing to do with the parent's marriage. It was a wonderful opportunity to use our knowledge as nurses to prepare the villagers to practice preventative health care measures.
er here. It was too cute!The following day we had a meeting with some of the women staff and talked about marriages, weddings, and kitchen parties. A kitchen party is a party which can last anywhere from a couple weeks to 3 months and it prepares the men and women for marriage. It was extremely interesting! There are many cultural differences in preparing for marriage and it was really neat to be able to see how much preparation is involved in entering a marriage here. The family is extremely involved and there is a tremendous variety in cultural practices between many marriage partners as well.
On Thursday of this week we left for a Trust, through World Hope, and taught the villagers about nutrition and health promotion for their children. There were many different spiritual beliefs associated with health care practices, which made the teaching a little bit difficult. Many of the practices were related to newborns and the manifestations caused by a lack of adequate nutrition. Diarrhea was also considered a complex problem with children, because if a child got diarrhea there were many assumptions made about the parents and their commitments to each other. We had to clarify that diarrhea comes from bacterial and viral pathogens and that the child's diarrhea had nothing to do with the parent's marriage. It was a wonderful opportunity to use our knowledge as nurses to prepare the villagers to practice preventative health care measures.
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