Shared Activity Reflection

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Shared activity : reflection
Module 1 Unit 6
When I started this Master of Public Health (MPH), I had great expectations, and I knew that I had to do it because it would help me progress as a health care professional (Roehampton-online.com, 2015). I was coming in with an experience both as an International Volunteer Leader in a Relief Organization for the past 20 years and with an experience in health care as a visiting nurse, additionally being the president of the Staff Committee. The Module One of the MPH has helped me tremendously in bringing together both angles of experience and showed me how to blend them in order to improve my leadership and feel more secure in both my roles as it is very important to be confident while leading (Barron Stark, 2012).
Previously, I often felt like my experience as a volunteer leader was not really recognized or valuable in my nursing job (Working with Volunteers and Managing Volunteer Programs in Health Care Settings, 2003). However, at the end of this Module One, I have taken steps to influence more confidently as a leader in my nursing job as well as in my role of president of the Staff Committee. For example, when it comes to the Staff Committee’s role, I have asked the Committee members to consider this role as significant …show more content…

For example, I was very interested to read that in Saudi Arabia, the government wants to make healthcare more approachable and therefore is building more hospitals (Harris, 2015). It contrasts with Switzerland, which government is closing down regional hospitals with the pretence to reduce costs (Buchs, 2013), while elderly and disabled people are then having a difficult time accessing health care facilities. In this aspect, it was very enlightening to study the financing of public health care and evaluate it, as it helped me understand what could be done to reduce costs more effectively while not cutting down on

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