President makes it official 2
CDs atDC 3

Registrar’s Office profile 4
Tapestry at the gallery 6

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INside Zone

THE DOUGLAS COLLEGE NEWSLETTER Mf NOVEMBER 1994

 

 

Nursing
orientation aids
new students

It started with bagpipes and ended with
greater awareness and opportunities for
student success.

For the past two years, the semester one
faculty of the General Nursing program has
organized orientation evenings for each
incoming class. The new students and their
spouses or partners meet faculty and senior
students, and tour nursing labs and the
interactive computer lab.

“The invited guests learn about the
program through brief presentations and
opportunities to ask questions,” offered
General Nursing instructor Marilyn
Rainbow. “It is felt that if students’
significant others have information about
the program, they will be supportive to the
students and assist in their success.”

Presentations by senior students are
rated highly by guests. In the latest Session,

held in September, seniors Nancy
a McGlinchey and Ross MacIntosh shared
° oy their strategies for success.

McGlinchey discussed computer, library,
and human resources available to students.
She also shared how the understanding of
her family enabled her to focus on her
studies. MacIntosh opened the evening by
piping in the faculty. He later discussed

 

Douglas College Nursing student Cheryle Jones visits with Dr. Poonsat (left),
Managing Director of Bangkok Hospital Consortium and Dr. Chuladjai.
Director of Bangkok General Hospital during her Thailand trip.

 

For nursing student Cheryle Jones, the specializing in the implementation of how he and his wife shared responsibilities
two-month break between semesters hospital computer systems. She went to which allowed him to meet the demands of
didn’t mean a rest from education. She Bangkok General Hospital this summer the program.
spent six weeks last summer in Thailand to help with its installation of a new “Throughout the semester, faculty often
working on a hospital’s computer system system. The invitation came through hear students commenting on ideas they are
and learning about, “the country, its CESO (Canadian Executive Service incorporating into their lives as a result of
health care, and I even discovered things Overseas), a volunteer organization. what they learned this evening,” said
about myself too.” “Td had other offers through CESO, Rainbow. “This initiative has been a great

Before she entered Douglas College’s but the timing was always wrong. This success.” fl
General Nursing program, Jones had time the hospital was willing to wait for
worked in the computer industry, Thailand continued on page 7

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