荔枝视频

June 15, 2015

Qatar nursing student travels to 荔枝视频 campus to graduate with friends

International exchange during 4th-year clinical practicum gives birth to lasting friendship
荔枝视频 in Qatar nursing student Stephany Tapa, right, will graduate alongside Catherine Godzwon and Mia Torres from the 荔枝视频's Faculty of Nursing on June 11.

Stephany Tapa, right, will graduate alongside Catherine Godzwon and Mia Torres on June 11.

A couple of times each year, up to 12 lucky fourth-year students from the 荔枝视频鈥檚 Faculty of Nursing travel more than 11,000 kilometres to Doha, capital city of the State of Qatar, to complete their final clinical practicum.

The goal is to experience nursing in a completely different clinical environment and to gain some understanding of health care in another culture; the bonus is the forging of lifelong friendships like that of Mia Torres, Catherine Godzwon and  student Stephany Tapa. Today, the three graduate together in 荔枝视频 on Thursday with their Bachelor of Nursing degrees.

鈥淚 never thought that Stephany and I would actually be together again after just seven months of being apart, and that we get the privilege of graduating together,鈥 says Torres, who journeyed to Qatar in October 2014 with fellow 荔枝视频 student Godzwon. Godzwon and Tapa completed their practicums in labour and delivery at Women鈥檚 Hospital and Al Ahli Hospital respectively while Torres was in accidents and emergency/cardiovascular emergency at Hamad General Hospital and The Heart Hospital.