OGACHI Blog: Community Health in Barbados

I’m back at it again, this time I’m in Barbados to fulfill my clinical hours for my community and public health nursing course at Duke. I’m going to share some of the highlights of what I’ve learned about Barbados and their health care system on our first full day in the country. (I’ve been in the country over a week now, but for school I was assigned to write about the first day, and this took a little while).

On Monday morning, April 24th, we had orientation at Barbados Community Health College. We met with with Health Sisters, the Chief Deputy of Public Health Nursing and her predecessor, representatives from the community college, and a historian who gave two lectures; one on geography and one on history. Then we went on a 7+hour windshield tour of the island! We traversed almost the entire island, in a church bus, with our historian giving a continuous running commentary of the scenery.

Here are some noteworthy observations... (Read more)