Me and one of the girls from Children's ward

Weeks 7-8

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March 25th 2010
We are now coming up on the last week of our placement, and beginning to prepare for the realities of coming back home to Canada within the next month. I spent week 7 at Accra Mental, one of the large psychiatric hospitals here. I had requested this placement due to my time at Alberta Hospital Edmonton as an Undergrad Nurse, but found my experience to be fairly useless here. Just like every o ... read more

Africa » Ghana » Greater Accra » Accra

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Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland trust territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. A long series of coups resulted in the suspension of the ... ... read more