ENDRIGA, PAMELA LYLAH M.

BSN III-A

EDUCATIONAL TOUR (MANILA)

As a student, my responsibility is to study, undersatand and apply the learning. But everything is not about studies only you must learn how to enjoy life. Along our journey there are so many opportunities to learn, and such opportunities is given to us. This tour mainly give the students the chance to learn and explore the excellence of science and medicine. Secondly, for us, students to learn new things not only in a school setting but in a amusing and collaborative manner in a way that we can readily access and touch and be familiarize with those equipments that we only envision and that what this tour has benefited us. But not only the chance to see high tech equipments but also the information we get from the hospital staff and personnel whom they shared their ideas and knowledge to us. On our fist day of educational tour our first hospital destination right after our arrival at NAIA terminal 2 we immediately proceed at St. Lukes Medical Center located at Fort Bonifacio Global City. While on our bus going to St. Lukes we had our breakfast. St. Lukes Medical Center is a 650 bed hospital home of 10 institutes, 8 departments and 23 centers. The hospital has the most sophisticated medical technology and facilities. We also witness the advancement of technologies which is presented to us by their hospitable and welcoming staff which they have demonstrated to us the uses of those equipments that we seen some of those are CT Scan, Portable CT Scan, Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL), vein viewer and a lot more. Although we had a short time having our hospital tour at St. Lukes still we has able to see almost of their facilities and the infrastructure of the hospital and to go into institutes, department and centers some of those are the Heart Institute, Health and Wellness Center, Department of Nuclear Mdicine, Cardiac Arrythmia Center and a lot more. After the allotted time for our tour in St. Lukes we take our lunch on our way to the next hospital destination which is the Manila Doctors Hospital. As we reach Manila Doctors Hospital which is located along the United Nations Avenue in the old district of Manila. As what we had expected we are being welcome by the hospital staff and we are also being toured in the hospital facilities and technology. But during our tour in MDH we are mostly seen the different floors of the hospital and identify on what are the cases that they cater on those floors from their Private Rooms upto the Ward and to their Emergency Room. Those that I have mentioned are some of the floors that we have visited others are the Intensive Care Unit, the Operating Room and the Delivery Room which we dont get a chance to have a sneak view of it inside due to SOP that you should be sterile while entering those areas and thus there is a need to wear protective gear and also there is the Rehabilitation Center. Although we get to have limited chance to see almost of their high tech equipments still we learn something with the hospital tour on MDH and that is you can deliver quality care to the patients by making the most out of the resources of the hospital regardless on what other hospitals can give to the other patients once you are the choice of the people you are trusted by those who believe and give their trust in you with regard to their

healthcare needs. After our visit at the MDH we proceed to our venue for our dinner which is along the Roxas Boulevard. Although we had a long and tiring first day due to whole day of walking inside and outside the hospital it is still worth it, at night we check in to our hotel and the hotel accommodation was nice and seem so rewarding after a long tiring day and for tomorrow still I look up to the next day a more exciting day not only for the experiences but most especially the learning that we acquire while enjoying the tour. Today is the second day our educational tour. Our schedule was first Cardinal Santos Medical Center and after that we went at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute. During our tour at the Cardinal Santos Medical Center (CSMC) we are welcomed by the hospital staff under the nursing division the hospital begins with the audio visual presentation about the history and the services being rendered by the hospital. After that we are divided into 8 groups and the hospital tour started. I personally astonished with the ambiance of the hospital since it has a lot of color each floor that we have visited unlike those other hospitals that I personally seen they have the typical color which is white. We also have seen the nuns having a room to room visit which according to the hospital tour guide they where the one conducting counselling to the patient who wants to do so same also during Sundays there is an offer of communion for those who want to receive the body of Christ. One thing also is that Cardinal Santos Medical Center for me is unforgettable is that the room rate will be depending on the view that can be seen at your room if the room has a beautiful sight this will cost you more as you compare to the other rooms that does not have a beautiful sight which I think this will only matter to those patients who can afford to get a private rooms but for those less fortunate this is not an issue to them. One of the highlight with our tour here at the CSMC is our visit at the Gamma Knife Center. As what the nurse said during the presentation of the Gamma Knife equipment it is a non-invasive, state-of-the-art technique that delivers a precise treatment to a specified target while protecting the surrounding normal brain tissue. I was amaze with the structure of the equipment and on how it is used to the patient at the same time on how the treatment can give new hope and less risk to the patients. After our CSMC tour we went at Greenhills to have our lunch. Our last hospital destination for our educational tour is the National Kidney and Transplant Institute along the East Avenue in Quezon City. We first visit the Dialysis Center which is located at the new constructed building. The hospital has the Main and the Annex which is located at the back of the new constructed building. The hospital primarily cater transplant of kidney which benefited the patients needed such kidney. During our tour the hospital tour guide shared that the hospital already done 500 kidney transplant where in last year they met the longest living patient that they have which have been a kidney recipient. We get the chance also to see PET Scan, MRI, and other high tech equipments. After the trip we went to Quezon City Memorial Circle and right after that we went to the Mall of Asia where in we had our dinner there and proceed to the Hotel after the dinner. To sum all up, the educational tour is tiring in terms of the schedule but then the learnings and the experience paid it off. For me, the purpose of the tour is achieved and the students enjoyed the educational tour. Since this is the first time that the school has this kind of activity I expect that there will be more of this kind of activities that would enhance the knowledge and also make the students involve with the school programs.