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Nursing the X-Factor

by Yong Tsuey Ling

NURSING back the health of patients takes eXtra care and effort, something that ITE Nursing students are not short of, if the praises heaped on them are anything to go by. ITE Nursing students have the X-factor, vouched three patients, Ms Jamie Koh, Ms Sharifah Maimun bte T M Khalid and Mr Tan Hock Hai.

Complimenting the students, Ms Sharifah wrote in her email: “Noor Azizah Abdul Rahman, Nurazimah Samsuri and Tina Ong had been caring and nice during my stay at NUH (National University Hospital) recently. Their warm smile, words of encouragement and readiness to assist patients like me have, in no small way, helped speed up my recovery.” All three were first-year Nursing students of ITE College East posted to NUH for their clinical practice.

Acknowledging somewhat bashfully, Nurazimah replied: “It is a labour of love.” Sharing the same dedication, fellow student, Chua Kim Lan, also went out of her way to comfort a patient. Similarly, Kim Lan earned a compliment for exemplary service from yet another grateful patient, Ms Koh.

The other ITE students complimented were: Danelissa Adam, Khairunnisa Abdul Rahim, Loh Zhi Xiang, Nur Sa’aidah Norman, Nurazlinda Omar, Siti Farhanah Md Sofian, Siti Sumieyati Salamon, Syafiq Paiman, and Zafiarah Md Sinna.

Of the compliments, Ms Lydia Lau, ITE’s Nursing Lecturer, who supervises students for clinical practice, noted proudly: “I am not altogether surprised. Patients often give me feedback on how quick our students are in responding to their calls for help.”

Clinical Practice in Perspective
ITE’s two-year Nitec in Nursing course requires students to undertake clinical practices at the hospitals they are posted to as part of their study. Clinical practice, which embodies ITE’s “hands-on, minds-on and hearts-on” learning, enables students to put in practice the nursing skills and procedures learnt in the nursing laboratories.

The clinical component of the course comprises 41 weeks of clinical practice, where students are posted to hospitals like Alexandra Hospital, Ang Mo Kio Community Hospital, Changi General Hospital, Institute of Mental Health, KK Women’s & Children’s Hospital, National University Hospital, Singapore General Hospital, St Luke’s Hospital and Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

While on clinical practice, students will be assessed on how competent they are in various Nursing procedures. These include the taking of patient’s vital signs, bed bathing, turning of patients, collection of specimens, insertion of naso-gastric tube and feeding, administering oxygen therapy, dressing of wounds, even death procedures. At the end of the posting, the ITE Lecturer in-charge will ensure students meet the learning objectives and competency standards.