Students of the FHSS USB, their teachers, and representatives of the faculty and the University of South Bohemia were in raptures and had a reason to celebrate. Three teams of our faculty scored very high in the 7th year of the South Bohemian Nurse 2022 competition, which took place in Jindřichův Hradec hospital. The results were announced in the evening in Střelnice cultural centre where our faculty received a well-deserved ovation. The winner in the first competition category intended for students of the third year of tertiary education was team No. 1 led by captain Miroslava Koldová (General nursing) and defended our faculty´s last year's title. Other members of the team were Michaela Kováčová (General nursing), Klára Oklešt'ková (Midwifery) and Jakub Prokop (Medical emergency services). The winning team received the title of the absolute winner of the South Bohemian Nurse competition at the end of the gala evening. Other teams of the FHSS USB took second and fourth place this year.
In total, 17 teams competed in 17 disciplines until the afternoon to master the tasks at each station. Saturday evening brought a well-deserved celebration of their success in the competition, and of health professions in general. The competition disciplines were prepared to match the professional and practical training that the students receive at school. The aim was to show how they could cope with blood collection, resuscitation, treatment of a new-born, bed preparation, administration of blood derivatives or even catheterisation. Miroslava Koldová, captain of the winning team said: “We have a great simulation centre in our school where we can try out a lot of things. We trained there. I think we are well prepared from school and practice. Moreover, we are a great team of two general nurses, a midwife, and a paramedic.” She added that her team was only three points short of the maximum 170 points.
Among the first congratulators in Jindřichův Hradec were the Dean of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of the University of South Bohemia Ivana Chloubová and the Rector of the University of South Bohemia Bohumil Jiroušek, who emphasized the importance of our faculty focused on helping professions. Prof. PhDr.Bohumil Jiroušek, Dr. said: “The mission of the University of South Bohemia is wide-ranging and includes service to the region. Of course, we want to do world-class science, but at the same time we want to be of service to our region. Thanks to our many faculties, we manage to combine this. I appreciate the fact that such a competition exists at all - and the fact that the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences defended its absolute victory from last year is a testimony to the quality of our students and their teachers, who once again managed to prepare them so well.”
Yet before the start of the competition on Saturday morning, dean Mgr. Ivana Chloubová, Ph.D. spoke about the power of teamwork, which is crucial in the medical field. Unlike in previous years, this year our teams comprised of students from different fields, so not everyone knew each other before. Nevertheless, they managed to match each other well and divided the roles. After the results were announced, the dean was very proud of all the team members and thanked them for representing the faculty and the university so well. “This competition once again showed the quality of our education and I feel that the participants in the tertiary education category can see our students as role models,” she said, referring also to her current experience of teaching in the first year of the General Nursing programme. She noted that some of the freshmen had already participated in the South Bohemian Nurse Competition as secondary school students who had noticed how successful the representatives of our faculty tend to be.
