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Hajah Asmah binti Haji HusainiBN Nursing, Msc Nursing StudiesLecturerUniversiti Brunei Darussalamasmah.husaini@ubd.edu.bn

The enrichment of nursing values

through volunteerism; a preliminary

finding

+Diploma in Health Sciences ( Nursing)

38 students

Year 1 ( Semester 1 and 2)

Age range: 17-21 years old

40% volunteering experience

+C.O.P IHS

Experiential learning and reflective practice.

A community outreach project was organized where students were asked to volunteer to carry out charity work for families who are in need of physical help.

+ ‘5472 families living in poverty in Brunei

Darussalam’Brunei Times 2011

+Volunteer work- Community Outreach programme- IHS

+Nursing values Respect and empathy are among the vital values that

are expected of nurses during nursing care.

(Brunei Code of Professional Conduct for Registered Nurses and Midwives in Brunei Darussalam 2010 ,The American Nurses Association 2001, Royal College of Nursing, United Kingdom 2003)

Caring encompasses empathy for and connection with people (Fahrenwald et al 2005).

Nursing educators today are faced with challenge on how to instill these nursing values in student nurses (Cook and Cullen 2003).

+Course outline Semester 1

Life Science- 2hrs/week Foundation of Nursing- 4hrs/week Clinical skill lab- 4 hours week Clinical placement- 4 weeks

Semester 2 Life science – 2hrs /week Foundation of Nursing -4hrs/week Clinical skill lab- 4 hours/week Pharmacology-2hrs /week Clinical placement- 6 weeks

+Understanding value of nursing

Ice breaking session

lectures and tutorial sessions ( Foundation of Nursing)

Clinical placement ( Medical/surgical wards)

Volunteer work on selected families ( elderlies/in need)

+EvaluationEvaluation

Aim: To find out if ‘volunteerism’ enhances students’ awareness of the importance of ‘respect’ and ‘empathy’ in nursing practice

Descriptive survey- using a likert scale

Focus group interview

Findings:

73% of the students found that the volunteer work was extremely meaningful to them

Express the value of respect

Understand their clients better

Able to link theoretical knowledge to experience

Time

+DiscussionChallenges

Resources Volunteerism as a culture Support from faculty

members

How it could’ve been done better Ensure nursing values are

continuously highlighted during formal and informal learning.

Lesson leant Able to link theory into

practice

Sustainability and impact in the community Family in need feel

supported by the community.

Volunteerism as a culture Sensitive nurses within

the community.

+Recommendation:

To formally make voluntary work as part of the nursing curriculum.

To carry out further survey using ‘ The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy-Student Version’.

To be continuously assessed and evaluated.

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Hajah Asmah binti Haji Husaini

BN Nursing, Msc Nursing Studies

Lecturer

Universiti Brunei Darussalam

asmah.husaini@ubd.edu.bn

Thank you!