Celebration After Our COPAR Exposure

There's always a rainbow after the rain.
But where's the rainbow in this picture??

At long last! Our 6-week COPAR Community Exposure has finally come to an end! And after every long stressful week, we all need a break. So all of us decided to go to the Buhisan Dam where you still have to ask for permission from the DENR because the place is protected.

This is what it looks like after entering the large gate of Buhisan Dam.

Nice view isn't it??

So this is the Buhisan Dam.

Umm.. okay.. Vanity Strikes again

Where is she, where is she, where is this beautiful girl

EMOTIONAL??

We really had a great time in the Buhisan Dam. I'm also gonna miss that very peaceful place. There's really more to it than what the pictures show but I just can't put it to words right now. Haay. Maybe I'm just too emotional becuase this will really be my last experience as a nursing student. This is really an experience worth remembering. Thanks to my classmates, my friends. ^_^

By the way, this was taken on the jeepney on our way home. The jeepney was full so we had no choice but to cling at the back. tsk3!

COPAR Community Assembly

Yep! That's me on our COPAR Community Assembly. I'm one of the speakers that time and I was interpreting and explaining the data we have gathered from our community survey. My topic was about the community's immunization status, their drug habits and the most common diseases found in the community.

While the talk is going on, some of my classmates are also busy taking blood pressure at the back for those who want to kno their blood pressure.

We also prepared snacks for the 50+ people who attended our Community Assembly and some raffles for those who can answer the questions we throw at them. Of course, the questions are related to the topics discussed, so they really have a reason to listen to our discussions!

The COPAR Community Assembly is the last and most tiring part of our COPAR Exposure so we took some pics with all the members and Clinical Instructors present.

I'm really going to miss this experience and especially my time with my classmates.

Feeding Program in the Community | COPAR

After our Community Health Teaching and our Operation Blood Pressure, another activity we had while on our COPAR experience is the Feeding Program. As you can see, I'm already in some of the photos so I'm inspired to blog about this one! This is one of the most fun experience we had in our COPAR because we get to mingle with a lot of kids and not only that, we have made them happy by our Feeding Program. This was held in the Sitio Nazareth Day Care Center so a lot of kids were really there waiting for their classes to start.

We have taken a lot of pictures so I don't need to narrate everything that happened because a single photo is worth 1000 words. And I don't think I have that 1000 words so let the pictures narrate the story. ^_^

While preparing for our Backdrop

and TADA! Our Feeding Program by Cebu Normal University Backdrop!

Now that it's all set up, let the program begin!

Dancing some kiddie songs! This was fun!

Oh no! Vanity strikes again. Tsk3!

Now that the program has ended, don't we get a Feeding Program too?? =D

COPAR Community Operation BP (Blood Pressure)

Another activity we had is our operation BP (Blood Pressure). Again, I'm not in the photos. So Sad. =c. I was somewhere up in the mountains, taking Blood Pressure on another area of the community. Anyway, here are some pictures of my classmates taking Blood Pressure.

COPAR Health Teaching

We had many activities during our COPAR days. And one those is our health teaching with our prioritized family. My topic in my health teaching to my family is about Anemia because the head of their family is Anemic. Sad to say though, I have no pictures of myself doing their Health Teaching. So I'll just post some of my classmates health teaching photos.

Our 1st Day Of Community Organizing Participatory Action Research (COPAR)

Have you ever wanted to see a sight of Cebu like this one?

Before I talk about my experience on our first day of COPAR, you may want to check out first what COPAR Nursing really means.

Our first day of COPAR happened last Jan. 20, 2009. Yeah I know, this post is already too late, but don't care anyway. Hehe! I just have to post this one because it's one of my greatest experience in COPAR.

Our group was assigned in Barangay Buhisan, Sitio Nazareth, Cebu City for our COPAR Nursing. Before we arrived at the place, our Clinical Instructor already told us what to expect in there. he said that the place was settled in a Valley, and you can just see Mountains around you where most houses are settled. And he was right! We still actually have to climb mountains just to interview a family for our Family Health Assessment form! But this actually, is what makes COPAR so fun and exciting.

The first picture above was taken at the peak of the mountain we climbed on our first day. Very scenic right? But before you can reach that, you have to go through a series of "phases" first!

1st Phase: The Ascending Phase

That's steep you know! You may think it's easy but it's not! This is where we can test our BALANCE It's very easy to slip because of our shoes and because of the rocky road. Actually there were some who slipped that puts us to the next phase!

2nd Phase: The Sobbing Phase


See? I told you it's not that easy! Imagine if one falls, then all the other people behind might also fall! This phase is where we can test our FEARS and EMOTIONS.

3rd Phase: The Vanity Phase


Now that were at the top, all the fears, the anxieties and the sobbing are gone. But then, vanity strikes again! tsk3! I wonder what test this phase gave to us?? ?_?

4th Phase: The Descending Stage


Actually, climbing down the mountain is much harder than climbing up! This is where we can test the STRENGTH of our leg muscles!

Now, who said being a Nurse was all Boring Hospital Stuffs??

Nurses' Definition Of LOVE | Late Valentines Special

Love is a Disease of man's anatomy

Communicable with no Etiology

Once Frustrated Results To Allergy

Congenital Symptoms Reveal Anorexia;

This lack of appetite may lead to Insomnia
If you won't be careful may lead to Coma

In it's malignancy,
Love will lead to no Treatment
Nor can we discover any medication


But in Love's addiction,
A kiss is an emollient and a tranquilizer
To heal Disappointments.


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Community Health Nursing: What's so good about it??

I should have posted this topic long ago but I always forgot until it finally went out of my mind. It just came back to me when we started discussing again about Community Health Nursing in our lecture today. So, I would like to share some of my experiences on our CHN duty or Community Health Nursing and what's so good about it.

I'm used to hearing my sister say that having a duty in the hospital is better than in the community. She said that it's very tiring when in the community. But when it was my turn to have a duty in the community, I proved her WRONG!! ^^ My experience in the community was great. We had great time with my RLE group. And do you want to know what made it so great??

this!and this!

food!and more food!!

The first three photos were taken in the house of one of the families assigned to one of my classmate to conduct a study for our Family Heal Survey and Family Nursing Care Plan. His family was so nice. His family cooks food and sells it in their community, and we "the guys" were the luck ones to taste it! And I tell you, It tastes great! The food was a "tinola" or "souped-fish" It really was a great time for us! The fourth photo (I hate this photo, I'm nowhere to be found because I was the one taking the picture!!) was taken in a bakery just in front of the Barangay Health Center!

It's just not the food that makes it great. When pre-natal day comes, Dozens of mother's with their babies come and our task that time is to take their vital signs. I volunteered myself to be the one taking the mother's blood pressure and the babies temperateure rate. It was cool because there's just so many mothers and I get to practice my blood pressure taking skills, and in the shortest period of time, to cater all of the mothers. We also had our flower arrangements while in the community.

And after the fun day, we again took pictures, this time, with me, because the one taking the picture was already the Barangay Health Worker.

The Group 5 Girls

The Complete Group 5 Members