Healthcare projects on an overseas placement: how one student’s plan generated a team effort

RCNi Nursing Student Award winner Temitope Babajide used networking skills and persistence to get a community clinic up and running

• Remarkable student sought and planned health promotion opportunities before leaving for her month-long placement in Ghana
• By working with local healthcare providers, she established a community clinic that offers healthcare screening and social events for an isolated group
• Fundraising and volunteer work has had a long-term impact on the community she visited

In just four weeks, a determined nursing student on an overseas placement in Ghana set up a project that is improving healthcare access and outcomes for widowed women.

Anglia Ruskin University student Temitope