Re: Tanzania
From: Louana M George (westsidebirthservice@juno.com)
Sat Feb 17 16:32:01 2007
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The best advice I can give you is to be prepared to be creative when
working in the hospital. Stuff we take for granted like---tape just
doesn't stick on the skin for very long, band-aids are out of the
question, women probably won't know when their last menstrual period was,
the midwives may or may not know how to do much more BP's, it may be the
norm to pay attention to the mother's life and not the baby's during
birth, lighting may not be very good, and like that. I don't know much
about the hospital but in my experiences even the best hospitals are
basic at best. I found that any teaching materials I wanted to work with
were best if they included color charts and pictures.
Good project the malaria in pregnancy one--really needed. Hope this
helps.
Louana
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:41:16 -0600 Danae Steele <noheaecs@yahoo.com>
writes:
I'm going with Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, an organization
that does almost entirely basic research, but I've been consulting on a
clinical trial of medications to prevent malaria in pregnancy. So, lots
of great basic scientists there and a good lab, but no one can tell me
much of anything about the hospital.
Danae
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The best advice I can give you is to be prepared to be creative when
working in the hospital. Stuff we take for granted like---tape just
doesn't stick on the skin for very long, band-aids are out of the question,
women probably won't know when their last menstrual period was, the midwives may
or may not know how to do much more BP's, it may be the norm to pay attention to
the mother's life and not the baby's during birth, lighting may not be very
good, and like that. I don't know much about the hospital but in my
experiences even the best hospitals are basic at best. I found that any
teaching materials I wanted to work with were best if they included color charts
and pictures.
Good project the malaria in pregnancy one--really needed. Hope this
helps.
Louana
I'm going with Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, an organization
that does almost entirely basic research, but I've been consulting on a
clinical trial of medications to prevent malaria in pregnancy. So, lots
of great basic scientists there and a good lab, but no one can tell me much of
anything about the hospital.
Danae
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