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Activities
Teaching Challenges
Each morning began with a team
mee琀椀ng. The Chris琀椀an founda琀椀on
of Integritas was woven into these,
and I enjoyed discussing various
Bible passages that relate to jus琀椀ce and helping those in prisons.
Following this, we typically visited
one or two police sta琀椀ons or jails
a day. Interwoven with medical assessments were mental health and
spiritual ques琀椀ons. It was refreshing to be able to pray openly and
discuss situa琀椀ons beyond physical
problems. Alongside the visits was
teaching with the nursing assistant
students (OJTs). Some days the
plans fell through all together due
to logis琀椀cs that we were not familiar with. Nevertheless, there were
cases to write up and reading to be
done.
There was a huge disparity in
health literacy, which we encountered both with the OJTs as well as
with the pa琀椀ents.
The OJT students were also working with Integritas as a 昀椀nal experience required in their training. Their
main role in the police sta琀椀on visits
was gathering pa琀椀ent demographics, measuring basic observa琀椀ons,
and documen琀椀ng these. This was,
however, not a straigh琀昀orward
task. For example, we witnessed
a trend of immediately taking random blood pressures before even
introducing anyone. Documenta琀椀on and pa琀椀ent con昀椀den琀椀ality
were also lax.
