Demonstrated in an interactive graphic by The Guardian, the World Health Organization considers 57 countries to have a critical health worker shortage. View the link below to compare these 57 countries with the UK and the USA in terms of health worker per capita (nurses and doctors), infant mortality, maternal mortality and number of births attended by a skilled birth attendant. Open the link to view: Global Health Worker Shortage
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Rachel Thiessen, a maternal child health nurse from BC, visited Bangladesh during the summer semester of 2012. Amidst the heat and dust, she experienced the friendliness and intriguing nature of the colourful city of Dhaka. About her time at IUBAT she writes, “The summer semester focused on abnormal obstetrical situations. Since I have only two years of nursing experience in maternity nursing, this proved to be somewhat of a challenge. Perhaps I underestimated the mountains of work that go into preparing course lectures, assignments, marking, completing clinical evaluations and supervising clinical placements. The eight students in my class surprised me with their verbal English and I was impressed with their ability to communicate with me.”
She continues, “IUBAT is on the right path to graduating competent nurses who have the opportunity to change the face of nursing in the future for Bangladesh. And a lot of this is due in large part to having volunteer faculty who come to the university to pass on their knowledge and skills across various nursing practice settings. All in all, despite the day to day challenges, the IUBAT health project is well worth the time invested, both professionally and personally.”
Recently Professor John Richards of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada and his graduate student Ms Afifa Shahrin completed a study of nutritional status of women from low-income households in urban and rural areas of Bangladesh. John is a founding director of the Bangladesh Health Project and also a member of IUBAT’s overseas advisory committee. Ms.Shahrin, a former instructor in BRAC University and recent graduate of SFU, engaged IUBAT College of Nursing students for some of the surveying. See http://www.theindependentdigital.com/index.php?opt=view&page=5&date=2012-08-31 for more on this. IUBAT has taken a pioneering role in the country’s higher education sector by supporting researchers, practitioners, and academics to undertake practical research on the policy problems facing Bangladesh (http://www.iubat.edu/cpr/). Several students and faculty from Canadian and US universities have completed research studies through IUBAT, providing College of Nursing students with an excellent exposure to research methods and academic expectations.
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