In mid-November, a group of teachers from the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences (FHSS) visited the university in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Faculty dean, Mgr. Ivana Chloubová, PhD, signed a memorandum of cooperation with the dean of the School of Medical Sciences at the beginning of this work trip. The trip further bolstered our faculty's relationship with this university that began in 2015. Sulekha Shrestha from Dhulikhel Hospital (a clinical work site and leading partner of the Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences) has been there since the beginning.
The receiving institution prepared a programme for representatives of the Institute of Nursing, Midwifery, and Emergency Care. The aim was to present the local system of educating nurses and to deepen the cooperation between the two faculties. On the first day, the visitors met the management of the faculty and the Dhulikhel Hospital. The second day included a tour of the local Simulation Centre and a meeting with the students who use it. Deputy director of the Institute of Nursing, Midwifery and Emergency Care, Mgr. František Dolák, PhD, explained: "On this day, we held a lesson focused on the benefits and possibilities of simulation teaching. The participants were third-year General Nursing students. The next day, the members of the nursing department had a meeting. They introduced the concepts of the field of Nursing in both countries and the education system. This discussion compared the education systems in both countries."
Associate Prof. PhDr Marie Trešlová, PhD, gave a lecture on the subject of Communication in Nursing for first-year nursing students. The head nurse of the Dhulikhel Hospital requested a lecture on acute and intensive care, prepared and delivered by Dr Dolák. The same group listened to a lecture by Associate Prof. Trešlová on the Specifics of Communication in Nursing. On the last day, first-year students attended a lecture on the History of Nursing in the Czech lands and Present-Day nursing in the Czech Republic.
The trip helped to evaluate the preparedness of the workplaces for our students' professional internships and specify the requirements. It showed our colleagues which professional knowledge and skills the incoming students should learn or practice in hospital departments. Ing. Jana Ředinová, from the Foreign Affairs Office, indicated that the first memorandum of cooperation between the two faculties was signed in 2015. Since then, the FHSS has sent two or three Nursing students to Dhulikhel Hospital annually. In 2018, the cooperation was expanded to include the Institute of Physiotherapy. Currently, two Nursing students and two Physiotherapy students annually go to Nepal.
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