We went to three different types of hospitals while in India. We went to the hospital in a local village where those without money would attend. We then went to a government and private hospital. The pictures I have posted are from the hospitals located in the villages. All of us students on the trip were either juniors or seniors. We have all been at St. Vincent or Hamot multiple times for our clinical rotations. We were all shocked and had eye opening experiences to what we observed in the care settings we visited. Many things are done differently, such as in India they do not wear gloves with every patient interaction, unlike in the US where we wear them constantly. They also do not follow privacy rules like in the US, as we were allowed to take pictures in the village hospitals. When it comes to sanitation policies, hand washing and sanitizing was not as prominent as back here Erie where hand washing is drilled into out nursing careers from the beginning of our learning. We even get tested on how to wash. In India, when you graduate as a nurse, you also are a midwife. When people deliver, a physician is not present. Nurses are in control of the whole process. In the government hospital about 30 births are conducted daily. Here in the US, we are lucky if we can see one birth throughout our whole OB clinical rotation. As nursing students and professionals, we were all very lucky to have this eye opening experience and it will be carried with us throughout the rest of our careers.