During your nursing internship in Kandy, you can expect to gain knowledge from a number of local specialists, experience a range of different departments, and engage with rare and unfamiliar cases such as dengue fever, tuberculosis, and other advanced conditions. Once the working day, or week, has come to an end, you'll have the chance to spot jaguars and leopards on a local safari, go white water rafting, and more. Read what our students think below!
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University of Birmingham 2012
During the four weeks I tried surfing, white water rafting, safari in a national park
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University of Birmingham 2012
Culture was also evident in the day to day running of the general hospital, as although there are similarities between UK nursing and Sri Lankan nursing there were also differences. For example, instead of just doing IV’s for your patients, you had one nurse doing all of the IV’s.
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Glasgow Caledonian University 2012
Looking back I had an amazing time, I met some great people and I had experiences that can't measure up to a placement in the UK.
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Keele University 2012
Being a student children’s nurse it was vital that I could spend all my clinical time in children’s departments and Work the World ensured that this was possible.
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University of Nottingham 2012
My School of Nursing recommended travelling with WTW as previous students had done so and had good experiences with the company.
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University of Manchester 2012
From my time in Kandy I really got to see the role of the Sri Lankan nurse in comparison to the UK.
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University of Manchester 2012
I was greatly involved in caring for the women and assisting in delivering babies
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University of Liverpool 2010
Not only did I see exacerbations of conditions that are less prevalent in the UK, such as malaria and HIV, but I also had an insight into how UK conditions such as CVA's and UTI's are treated in a developing country.
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Glasgow Caledonian University 2010
Work the World went out of their way to make it an amazing experience and I cannot fault them and would recommend them to everyone who is considering an elective placement.
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University of Edinburgh 2010
A useful tip for nursing students is to make friends with the Ghanaian student nurses as they run the ward and are fantastic at letting you get involved in patient care!
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