At the nursing school we spent time with the students. We spent time teaching them English and helping them raise funds for the school by selling food. We also went to clinicals with the students. We helped them with calculations and tried our best to teach them how nursing should be done.
When we went to clinicals we spent most of the time in the pediatric ward. We played with the children, gave them candy, and had stickers and coloring activities for them. I always thought that when people got to a hospital in Haiti, they got cared for. After spending several days in the hospital I found that this was not true. Every time something is done they need to have the money first. There were several children that we just waiting for antibiotics, IV placement, or a blood test to be done. They were laying in the beds very sick and nothing was being done until the family could pay for it. It was very sad to see and I felt helpless there. One kid in particular is still on my heart. He was HIV positive and you could clearly see it. No one was paying any attention to him. When we picked him up many people ran to tell us not to touch him because he had AIDS. It took a lot of time to tell the people that you can still hold and love a child with HIV. The mom of the child was 14 years old and also had HIV. She did not care about the child and did not seem to care about life. There was a very bad plan in place for the child and it was very frustrating to watch. Lisa provided the child with a bath, food, and water every day we saw him. There were many other stories like this that just broke my heart that I still cannot wrap my head around.
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