Joe Niemczura, RN, MS
About Joe Niemczura, RN, MS
In summer 2011 I made my fourth trip to Nepal, mostly in Kathmandu but making some short trips outside the KTM Valley. I trained 190+ nurses in Crticial Care, and you can read about it my wordpress blog titled Kathmandu Critical Care 2011.
the URL is: http://joeniemczura.wordpress.com/
there is also a fan page on FaceBook for my book, below.
I created a YouTube playlist titled Nursing Education in Nepal, and uploaded two dozen videos to the YouTube site, the URl for that is:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL05C15E3E2862A608
After my first trip i wrote a book... I am the author of "The Hospital at the End of the World" a first hand account of teaching nursing in rural Nepal with Christian Missionaries
My book is not a "scholarly book" - it is narrative nonfiction written in the style of a novel. I chose this format because of the target audience, which is nurses who are thinking of volunteering overseas. This is a group that wants info on the total package of the experience; not just the disease entities and ethnographical culture, but the nursing care, dealing with stress, and the way the hospitals are run.
You can buy the book, as well as read reviews, on Amazon.com.
more mundane details:
BS Nursing - U of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1977
MS Nursing U of California at San Francisco, 1981.
currently, faculty member at U of Hawaii at Manoa, undergraduate program (nursing). In a past life I have been politically active; worked as a middle manager of a hospital department (ICU), and taught nursing. I am the first male RN who ever taught maternity nursing in the history of the state of Maine. jack-of-all-trades.
three summers teaching nursing at Tansen Nursing School in rural Nepal.
There is a FaceBook fan page for the book. to find it, you need a FaceBook account. go there and type the name of the book into the Search box. voila!
Role(s) / Profession(s)
- Academic
- Nurse
Organization
- University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene
Language(s)
- English
- French
- Nepali
Recent Contributions
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Joe Niemczura, RN, MS replied to "Q&A with global health nurse and author Joe Niemczura" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.
thank you. the health system ther eis woefully underfunded, and relies of functional nursing model. The lack of money forces them to do it the way they do. You asked two questions - the first was about a healthy work envirnment. for this they need better equipment such as personal protective equipment. the second was about patient satisfaction. This latter issue is more complicated; for the most part, the population in the rural areas is ...
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Joe Niemczura, RN, MS replied to "Quality of Nursing Care and Nursing Leadership in Nepal" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.
Nurses is Nepal work in a "functional nursing system" constrained by the budget and lack of resources. To say the leadership is poor, is to blame the victim for the crime. I invite members of this group to read my blog www.joeniemczura.wordpress.com about the status of bedside nursing in Nepal.
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Joe Niemczura, RN, MS started a discussion "course syllabus for Global Health Nursing elective in undergraduate program" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.
I am developing a course proposal for a 3-credit undergraduate elective course to be titled Topics in Global Health Nursing. are you willing to share a syllabus/ ( if you already do this)... any advice?
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Joe Niemczura, RN, MS started a discussion "Low cost resources to train in critical care" in the Global Surgery & Anesthesia community.
As you may know, I teach nursing at the University of Hawaii school of nursing, and I am now making my fourth trip to teach nursing here in Nepal. I have previously taught at PCL level here, but this summer I am teaching a Critical Care Nursing course at Lalitpur Nursing Campus (LNC), for working nurses. I am also offering my training course at other sites in and out of the Kathmandu Valley (Bhairawa and ...
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Joe Niemczura, RN, MS started a discussion "systematic photos and videos of hospital care in Lesser Developed Country" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.
To accompany the book, The Hospital at the End of the World, there is a "Fan Page" set up on facebook. This page includes about 500 photos, a few dozen short digital videos, and commentary. The photos and the book, are set in rural Nepal. Because they were taken by a nurse who was intent on documenting nursing care and hospital organization, the photos serve as a valubale archive of the way that a Mission ...
Recent Recommendations
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