B E Y O N D | O C T . T O D E C . 2 0 1 8 | I S S U E 1 5Left: Nazurah (Second year nursing student at PAPRSB IHS) during a community visit to LinkAges Lam Ki Yip Centre, Hong Kong, asocial service centre for the elderly. Nazurah wears "gears" on her right arm and leg, which serve as barriers to limit joint movements,thus provide the wearer with the opportunity to experience how an elderly person feels with stiff joints, and a decline in walkingspeed/performance. In addition, special glasses are also provided (on her left hand) to provide the wearer with an insight of seeing theworld through an elderly person's eyesRight: Group photo of participants of the Global Health Nursing and Leadership Development Workshop at Yu Chun Keung MedicalLibrary, Hong Kong University 7N U R S I N G S T U D E N T S A T T E N D G L O B A LH E A L T H N U R S I N G A N D L E A D E R S H I PD E V E L O P M E N T W O R K S H O P A T H O N GK O N G U N I V E R S I T Y The “Global Health Nursing and Leadership Development Workshop” was held from the 3rd ofDecember 2018 to the 14th of December 2018 at Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, School of Nursing,University of Hong Kong (HKU). Muhammad Nur Hafizuddin bin Haji Hamidi and Nurul Nazurah BintiJulaini (Year 1 and Year 2 nursing students from PAPRSB IHS, respectively) attended the two-weekworkshop. The events are sponsored and hosted by HKU as one of the activities under SoutheastAsia Nurse Educators and Research Network (SEANERN) initiative, chaired by Professor WipadaKunaviktikul, Dean at Faculty of Nursing, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. The workshop aims to provide nursing students from East and Southeast Asian countries with anoverview of global and community nursing theories and strategies related to the delivery of care toindividuals and their families within the community. Participating nursing students were alsoinvolved in the community assessment which took place in the Southern District of Hong Kong aspart of their experiential learning. In addition, both students also participated in “The 8th HongKong International Nursing Forum cum 2018 International Council on Women’s Health IssuesCongress” which was held at HKU from the 17th of December 2018 to the 18th of December 2018." T h r o u g h t h e s i m u l a t e d a g e i n g g e a r s a t t h ew o r k s h o p , I h a v e l e a r n t t o p r a c t i c e p a t i e n c e w h e nd e a l i n g w i t h t h e e l d e r l y " -Nurul Nazurah Binti Julaini (Second Year Nursing Student from PAPRSB IHS)
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