January 2023

On January 14, 2023, a course on “Basic Life Support with the Use of an Automated External Defibrillator” was held at our university. It was very dynamic, dramatic, and emotional. Our students successfully revived all the residents of our Nursing Skills Practice Room: mannequins from child to adult age. 🙂 Everything that seemed simple through the story, we concluded, is actually exhausting and demanding in practice.

We would like to thank our lecturers and demonstrators, top national instructors Marijana Bebek, Mirela Vogrinec, and Luka Zlogleđi, for their selfless sharing of knowledge and experience. To help ease the students’ nerves, our instructor Marijana Bebek told the students: “You came to the course, but imagine this as a playroom.” Thank you to our students for their active participation, numerous questions, and persistence in resuscitation. Today, you demonstrated knowledge (and knowledge is power), and you demonstrated skills (and skills are the strength of power).

The plan for lifelong professional development for nurses, which will be held at Bjelovar University of Applied Sciences in 2023, can be found on the Croatian Chamber of Nurses’ website: https://bit.ly/vub-hkms2023.