{"id":1249,"date":"2015-10-03T14:36:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T13:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kenilworth-and-district\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2015-10-03T14:36:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T13:36:07","slug":"october-2015-has-it-really-been-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kenilworth-and-district\/2015\/10\/03\/october-2015-has-it-really-been-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2015 \u2013 Has it really been a week?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re back safe and sound, enjoying the novelty of hot and cold running water, power and reliable internet.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m back at the day job; Dave is happily sorting through his one thousand plus wildlife photos down to a respectable number that we can inflict them on our friends.<\/p>\n<h4>So what did I achieve on my Madventure?<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t turn out at all how I had anticipated.\u00a0\u00a0 On reflection it was perhaps rather arrogant of me to think that I could go for two weeks and help in the pharmacy as a spare pair of hands.\u00a0\u00a0 I did my best to promote pharmacy as a profession beyond that of just supply both within Queens and the School of Pharmacy, and get the ball rolling about including pharmacists as part of the whole health care team.\u00a0 I thoroughly enjoyed giving the talks to the medical and pharmacy students, and meeting young pharmacists just starting their careers.\u00a0\u00a0 I certainly intend to support Monalisa and Dina as much as I can from the UK and as per their requests, hopefully link them up with hospital pharmacists and schools of pharmacy.<\/p>\n<p>I met with the School of Nursing (KCN) so that if we are successful with the Quadrennial Bid, we\u2019ve sorted out the best lines of communication.\u00a0 They\u2019ve agreed to send photos, regular semester updates, and progress reports from the nurses themselves as to how they feel they are getting on.\u00a0\u00a0 That way we should be able to see on a personal level, the impact this training will have on the care of sick children.<\/p>\n<p>Chisoma is the only nurse in the entire of Queens with a higher qualification in child health (MSc) and acts as Matron.\u00a0 Neil Kennedy feels that she has been instrumental in improving nursing standards and with more nurses at B.Sc level, staff can be educated and empowered to make decisions without the doctors.\u00a0\u00a0 They are with the children 24 hours a day where as doctors only see them for about 2 hours on the ward rounds.\u00a0\u00a0 Nurses with basic grade qualifications have little appreciation of the urgency required and tend to use adult ways on children.<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 54px\" width=\"551\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1251\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1251\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2015\/10\/Chisoma-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1251\" src=\"\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2015\/10\/Chisoma-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Chisoma - means Grace in Malawi and she is amazing, and Tia\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2015\/10\/Chisoma-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2015\/10\/Chisoma-1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chisoma &#8211; means Grace in Malawi and she is amazing, and Tia<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1250\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2015\/10\/Angela-Miriam-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1250\" src=\"\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2015\/10\/Angela-Miriam-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Meeting with Angela Chimwaza and Miriam Simbota at KCN\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2015\/10\/Angela-Miriam-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2015\/10\/Angela-Miriam-3.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meeting with Angela Chimwaza and Miriam Simbota at KCN<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I had a great time with SI Blantyre, cementing our friendship link.\u00a0\u00a0 Like the members of my club, they are an amazing group of women.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Through them I learnt a lot about how disadvantaged girls and women in Malawi can be supported to improve their life chances.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe my Madventure was not so much about what I achieved but what I learnt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_0661.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1253\" src=\"\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_0661-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0661\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_0661-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_0661-740x460.jpg 740w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_0661.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Sharon back at work ploughing through hundreds of emails!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re back safe and sound, enjoying the novelty of hot and cold running water, power&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":523,"featured_media":1253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sharons-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>October 2015 \u2013 Has it really been a week? | News | Blog | Events | SI Kenilworth and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Kenilworth and District : Blog &amp; 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