We will miss you, Sonie!

We are sorry to lose our long-serving faculty member, RN Sonie Meyer. Sonie is a US nurse who volunteered with IUBAT College of Nursing for five years as a clinical instructor, supervising medical-surgical nursing students at Apollo and United Hospitals. In the photo she is at United Hospital with students and visiting faculty member Brenda Hutton. She is also an American Heart Association instructor who certified our students in CPR each year.

Hands-on practice at IUBAT

All the students loved Sonie for her patience and competence and dedication to seeking new learning experiences for them. Sonie is leaving with her family for a new assignment in Ethiopia. We are very grateful for her dedicated support of IUBAT students. We will miss you, Sonie, and wish you all the best in the future.

Seeking Technical Support, Advice and Experiences in Nursing Curriculum Development and Integration

We have now completed the start-up for this project and graduated several cohorts of students. Our next step is to develop our BSN program resources so they can be used by other educators. We have already created lectures, academic policies, evaluation materials and clinical practice tools; these materials could be useful in other low-resource settings. (IUBAT is an English-medium institution.) At this stage our curriculum material is not ready to be shared, because it has been prepared for a specific situation. Our intent is to make our resources more user-friendly so they can be distributed more widely. What we are seeking is technical support, advice and experiences in the areas of nursing curriculum development and integration. We are also seeking expert advice to set up a Creative Commons license that enables sharing of the resources. If you can help us with this work, please contact us directly.

Two Time IUBAT Volunteer Continues her Work in Bangladesh

Permjit Soomal volunteered with IUBAT in the fall of 2011 and again in the winter of 2012 as part of her practicum experiences for her Masters of Nursing (nurse educator option). She has now graduated and continues her work in Bangladesh with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) as a Canadian Teaching and Pedagogy Specialist – Clinical Supervision Specialist. She is responsible for setting up training programs for nursing instructors in pedagogy as well as setting up and training clinical supervisors for diploma nursing students. 

The University of Victoria recognized her efforts in their newsletter, The Ring. Soomal is quoted saying “I wanted to create and support programs that will help alleviate poverty and improve health.” She believes “nursing education does both.” To read more of this article titled Grad Shares Nursing Expertise in Bangladesh, open this link. To view Soomal’s blog where she shares more reflections and details about her experiences, visit Permjit’s Postcards.

Good luck Permjit in your future endevours!