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Medical Case Studies Inspired By A Personal Experience Of Helping The Refugees On The Island Of Lesbos-Greece, Majeda Kardosh, Rn, Ma Oct 2016

Medical Case Studies Inspired By A Personal Experience Of Helping The Refugees On The Island Of Lesbos-Greece, Majeda Kardosh, Rn, Ma

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Purpose: Employ a personal experience to advance inter-professional education and collaborative practice made by a case studies lecture, which refine and refresh the profession principles and values with healthcare students, explaining and suggesting ways to deal with ethical dilemmas that medical team face in their daily work routine in the hospital departments.

Background: September-October 2015, the refugee crisis in Europe, thousands of refugees (70% from Syria) took the relatively short voyage from Turkey to Lesvos Island in Greece by flimsy rubber boats. I volunteered with IsraAid NGO as a nurse who has a specialty for being an Arab speaker. After …