Incoming Student
Exchange Programme
Osaka University
2024.03.18-03.28

FOREWORD

Internationalisation is one of the strategic themes for teaching and learning in the University of Hong Kong,
with a view to enabling students to develop their capabilities in intercultural understanding and global
citizenship (Quality Assurance Council, The University of Hong Kong). In line with this, the School of Nursingof The University of Hong Kong provides international exchange opportunities for incoming exchange students.
It is believed that these opportunities can help widen students’ international perspectives.

The objectives of the incoming exchangeprogramme are:1) to get incoming students familiarize withthe supportive learning environment of theSchool;2) to facilitate incoming students toexperience a well-rounded campus life;3) to allow incoming students to identify thedifferences between health care systems inHong Kog and in their home country;
4) to enable incoming students to gain theunique cultural experience in Hong Kong.
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School of Nursing
The University of Hong Kong

The HKU School of Nursing, established in 1995, has benefitted from the achievements of its visionary
stewardship over the past quarter century, and it is now timely to focus on building for our nursing future inthis age of accelerated technological innovation, global uncertainties and challenging health priorities.

The School of Nursing is committed to fostering future nursing leaders in clinical practice policy, education andresearch who will spearhead innovation, adapt to change and nurture sustainable development. These
capabilities will be critically important as we move towards even more complex, technology enabled and rapidlychanging modes of health care. Out interprofessional education programme is extremely important in thepreparation of leaders for these multifarious environments. It enables us to provide students aspiring toleadership roles with the knowledge and skills to participate proactively in interdisciplinary teams, where theycollaborate, communicate and share resources to solve complex health problems. Together with our excellent
clinical programme, graduates with this background are in an excellent position to engage in a range ofadvanced practice and other clinical leadership roles. The School has partnerships with many universities
around the world which enable student exchange and joint research endeavours. Permeating all our educationendeavours is a commitment to research and scholarship. Our graduates have a rigorous research mindedness
and are well prepared to engage in interdisciplinary collaborative research. A strategic aim of our researchers
is to contribute to improvements in healthcare and public health through working with big data to enableprecious personalized health care.
2Table of Contents
HKU School of Nursing Incoming Student Exchange Programme
Schedule -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- P.4-5
Dress Code & Things to Bring ------------------------------------------------------ P.6
Venues ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

P.7-9

Transportation ------------------------------------------------------------------------

P.10-13

Communication during the Exchange Programme --------------------------- P.14
General Information
About HKU & Campus WIFI Connection ----------------------------------------P.15

About Hong Kong --------------------------------------------------------------------- P.16-18

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Date

MON
2024.03.18

For
Postgraduate

WeekForUndergraduate

ScheduleBuilding

10:30-12:20

1) Welcoming meeting- Introduction of Osaka U- Introduction of HKU2) School tour

✓✓

3SR

Rm301

12:20-13:20

HKUSON Lunch✓✓

3SR

Rm301

13:30-16:20

Lecture(NURS4603) Essential Statistics
Topic: Chi-square Test✓✓

3SRLT2Free study time------------

14:30-16:30

Experiential Learning
Visit to United Christian Nethersole Jockey Club
Wo Lok Community Health Centre✓✓------

18:00-20:00

DNurs Students Presentations✓AMFree study time------------PMMain Campus Tour & HK City Explore✓✓------✓✓

3SRLT1

✓✓

3SR

LT2

TimeAMTUE
2024.03.19

WED
2024.03.20

08:30-10:20

1THU
2024.03.21

10:30-12:20

ActivityLecture(NURS4604) Community & Global HealthNursing
Topic: Communicable disease control in local
and global perspectives: TB DALY analysis
Lecture(NURS2601) Nursing for Adults
Topic: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus,
Myasthenia Gravis

Venue

Room

12:30-14:00

RPg Seminar✓

3SR

Rm403

AMFree study time------------✓✓

3SRLT1✓✓

3SRtbc

✓

3SR

Rm403

13:30-15:20
FRI
2024.03.22
15:30-17:20

18:00-21:00

Lecture(NURS4604) Community & Global HealthNursing
Topic: Communicable disease control in global
perspectives: Sexually transmitted infections
Nursing Skill Lab session(NURS1601) Health Assessment
Topic: Assessment of skin, hair & nails;
Nutritional assessment; Blood glucose testingLecture(NURS7204) Advanced Practice Roles
Topic: Advanced nursing practice in renal care4

DateFor
Postgraduate

WeekForUndergraduate

Schedule✓✓

3SR

LT1✓

✓

3SR

LT1✓

✓

3SR

LT2✓

✓

3SR

Rm311

✓

3SR

Rm402

✓

✓

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Free study time

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08:30-10:20

Lecture(NURS2601) Nursing for Adult
Topic: Kidney Diseases 3: Nursing Managementof Peritoneal Dialysis, Haemodialysis

✓

✓3SR

LT2

10:30-11:20

Simulation Centre visit✓✓3SR

Free study time------------✓

3SR

Rm402

✓

✓

3SR

LT1Time08:30-10:20

10:30-12:20

13:30-15:20
MON
2024.03.25
15:30-16:20

18:00-20:00

2TUE
2024.03.26

09:30-11:30
PMWED
2024.03.27

PM
18:00-1900

08:30-10:20
THU
2024.03.28

5ActivityLecture(NURS1601) Health Assessment
Topic: Assessment of central nervous system
Lecture(NURS1602) Health Promotion & Education
Topic: Introduction to Primary Health Care andPrimary Health Care Initiatives in Hong Kong
Lecture(NURS4603) Essential Statistics
Topic: Correlation and Simple Linear Regression
Nursing Skill Lab session(NURS2601) Nursing of Adults
Topic: Stoma Care, Bandage, logroll, use ofimmobilizers
Lecture(NURS8207) Advanced Practice in Public HealthNursing: Assessment of Aggregate Need
Topic: Advanced Nursing Practice under theEvolution of Primary Care Development in HongKong
Experiential Learning
Visit to United Christian Nethersole Jockey Club
Wo Lok Community Health Centre

Lecture(NURS8268) Child and Adolescent HealthNursing
Topic: Child Protection
Lecture(NURS4604) Community & Global HealthNursing
Topic: Occupational health in community
nursing

Venue

Building

Room

10:30-11:15

Medical Library visit

✓✓WMW

LG1

12:30-14:00

RPg Seminar✓3SRRm402

14:30-15:30

Conclusion & Feedback session

✓✓

3SR

Rm301

Dress code
1. Lectures, laboratory sessions, medical library visit held in HKU Medical Campus,HKU Main Campus Tour & HK City Tour (March 20, 2024 (Wed), PM)- Smart casual- ✓ Recommended: plain tops, long / knee length pants, plain shoes / sneakers-  NOT appropriate: Yoga pants, ripped jeans, short pants / skirts, crop tops, sleeveless short and flipflops
2. Experiential Learnings
a. Visit to United Christian Nethersole Jockey Club Wo Lok Community Health Centre(March 19, 2024 (Tue), 14:30-16:30 & March 26, 2024 (Tue), 09:30-11:30)- Smart casual and comfortable dressing- ✓Surgical non-woven facial masks

Things to Bring
1. Your laptop for study and assignment preparation
2. Surgical non-woven facial masks (for at least 2-day use)
- For visit to community health centre on Mar 19 & Mar 26, 2024 (Tue)- When being in crowded areas- For times of not feeling well
3. Personal clothes & shoes (please check out Hong Kong weather forecast to pack right.)
4. Personal toiletries
5. Water bottle for drinking water refill
6. Personal medications and/or travel medications for personal use

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VenuesLocation

7Abbreviation Address

1

HKU School of Nursing

3SR

No. 3 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam

2Yu Cheung Keung Medical Library

WMW

LG1, William M.W. Mong Block, No. 21 Sassoon,Pokfulam

3

HKU Main Campus---

Pokfulam, Hong Kong

4

United Christian Nethersole Jockey
Club Wo Lok Community HealthCentre---

Unit 26-33, G/F, Kui On House, Wo Lok Street,Kwan Tong, Kowloon

5Ramada Hong Kong Harbour View---No. 239 Queen’s Road West, Hong Kong.

Venues
Yu Chun Keung Medical Library
Yu Chun Keung Medical Library is named in memoryof the late Mr Yu Chun Keung for his generous
donation and support
The Medical Library provides significant digital
resources, multimedia as well as extensive printcollections on biomedical and health sciences. The
mission is to serve the curriculum, continuing
education, research, and patient care needs of theUniversity of Hong Kong and its LKS Faculty ofMedicine. The overall aim is to become a regional
centre of excellence in support of teaching, research,and scholarship in these fields. It is also a World
Health Organiszation (WHO) Depository Library from1993 onwards.

TechMezz
The Library received an upgrade in February 2022with the opening of a Technology-Enriched Learning
Mezzanine (TechMezz) giving students access to thelatest virtual reality tools to advance theirunderstanding of anatomy
The open leaning space houses two Anatomage
Tables – 3D anatomy and virtual dissection systems
designed for anatomy education – alongside 32
virtual reality stations and the latest interactive
whiteboards.
Official website:
https://lib.hku.hk/medlib/facilities.html#15

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Venues
United Christian Nethersole
Community Health Service
United Christian Nethersole Community HealthService (UNC) is a sub-organization of United
Christian Medical Service which provides primar
health care via 8 community health centres inKowloon and New Territories.
There are different social service units such as
Good Neighbour Network, Day Care Centre for
the Elderly and Integrated Home Care Service
Team under UCN.
Official Website:
https://www.ucn.org.hk/en/index/

9Transportation
From where you are staying

OriginDestination

HKU
School ofNursing

RamadaHong Kong
Harbour View

UnitedChristianNethersoleJockey Club
Wo LokCommunity
Health CentreBus route no.
37A44X
791
90B

MTR

Boarding stop

Alighting stop
Bus Fare#34
HK$6.1#16
HK$6.7
Queen#37
HK$6.7
Centre StreetMary#18
HK$6.9Hospital#18
HK$7.1#17
HK$7.41) Sai Ying Pun Station → North Point Station- To take Island Line on platform 1, train
towards “Chai Wan”
2) North Point Station → Yau Tong Station- To take Tseung Kwan O Line on platform 3,train towards LOHAS Park or Po Lam
3) Yau Tong Station → Kwun Tong Station- To take Kwun Tong Line on platform 2, trains
towards Whampoa
4) Take Exit C2, cross the footbridge, walk up to theCentre by following route shown on the map on
P.11.

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Transportation
From where you are staying
FROM: Kwun Tong MTR Station
TO:United Christian Nethersole Jockey Club Wo Lok Community Health Centre
Mode of transportation: Walking

11Transportation
To where you are staying
OriginDestination

Bus route no.
7

Boarding stop

Alighting stop
#21

Bus FareHK$5.4HKU
School ofNursing

RamadaHong Kong
Harbour View

37B

Queen Mary
Hospital#18

HK$5.4

91
4

#28
#27

EasternStreet

HK$5.5
HK$5.512

Transportation
To where you are staying
FROM: United Christian Nethersole Jockey Club Wo Lok Community Health Centre
TO:Ramada Hong Kong Harbour View
Mode of transportation: Walking & MTR
1. Walk to the Kwun Tong MTR Station Exit C2

2. Take MTR
1) Kwun Tong Station → Yau Tong Station- To take Kwun Tong Line on platform 1, train towards Tiu Keng Leng
2) Yau Tong Station → North Point Station- To take Tseung Kwan O Line on platform 4, train towards North Point
3) North Point Station → Sai Ying Pun Station- To take Island Ling on platform 2, train towards Kennedy Town
4) Leave the Sai Ying Pun Station via Exit A1, follow the route on P.12 to return to your place of stay.
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Communication
during the exchange programme
Discord is an instant messaging platform for users tocommunicate with each other by voice calls, text
messaging, sending and receiving media and files. It
could be accessed via mobile device or computer.
Announcements and useful information of HKUSON
Incoming Student Exchange Programme will bedisseminated via Discord server “HKUSON Incoming
Student Exchange 2024 - Osaka U”.
Official website:
https://discord.com/To join us, please follow these steps:
1. Create your account at Discord’s- Official website: https://discord.com.hk/,
or- APP which could be downloaded to yourmobile devices athttps://discord.com/download
2. Join our group “HKUSON Incoming Student
Exchange 2024 - Osaka U” by clicking this link:
https://discord.gg/XKANzddz

Download the AppAndroidIOS

Join the server “HKUSON Incoming Student

Exchange 2024 - Osaka U”

For ease of Identification, please set your Display
Name as “first name + abbreviation of youruniversity”, i.e. Ellie HKU (Path: User > My Account> Display Name).

For emergency, you may contact the HKU School of Nursing General Office:tel 3917 6954 (Ms Ellie Mak)
tel 3917 6619 (Ms Maria Cheung)tel 3910 3191 (Ms Karen Lam)

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Something you need to know about
HKUAbout us- The University of Hong Kong

https://www.hku.hk/- HKU School of Nursing

https://nursing.hku.hk/

Campus Map- HKU Main Campus (virtual)

https://vtour.hku.hk/- HKU Medical Campus (virtual)

https://www.med.hku.hk/campustour/index.html

Campus Catering- Catering outlets in Medical Campus / Sassoon Road Campus:

https://www.cedars.hku.hk/campuslife/catering/catering-outlets/#SR
Campus WIFI Connection- For students whose home institution is Eduroam member:

Network: eduroam
Login: your personal email account in home university
Procedure to configure: https://its.hku.hk/kb/accessing-eduroam-wifi-service/- For other students:

Network: Wi-Fi.HK via HKU
Procedure to configure: https://its.hku.hk/kb/accessing-wi-fi-hk-via-hku-service/15

Something you need to know about
Hong Kong
Discover Hong Kong
https://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/index.html
Hong Kong’s weather
Weather of Hong Kong in March is generally warm (between 16C to 22C) and humid (relative humidityover 80%). Air traffic and ferry services are occasionally disrupted because of reduced visibility underdrizzle and foggy weather.
➢ 9-day weather forecast: https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/wxinfo/currwx/fnd.htm➢ Climate of Hong Kong: https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/cis/climahk.htm
Octopus
Octopus is a smart contactless payment tool widely accepted by public transportation, restaurants andshops. It takes different forms for tourists:- Octopus on iPhone or Apple Watch- Huawei Pay Octopus- Physical Octopus Cards
o Tourist Octopus (Sold version)o On-Loan Octopus
Details are available at Octopus’s website. Please check it out to get yourself the version best fit yourown use.
➢ About Octopus:
https://www.octopus.com.hk/en/consumer/tourist/what-is-octopus/index.html➢ Choice of Octopus for tourist:
https://www.octopus.com.hk/en/consumer/tourist/choices/index.html
HK e-Mobility
This is an all-in-one mobile application for users to search for routes of different transportation mode,
journey times and fares, and disseminate real-time traffic news to enable users to plan for the mostappropriate travel arrangements
Official website

APP downloading
AndroidIOS

https://www.hkemobility.gov.hk/en/routesearch/pt

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Something you need to know about
Hong Kong
Public Transportation
Bus and MTR are core public transportation in Hong Kong. Their APP could provide instant bus arrival
time and route searching functions:
Official website
MTR

https://www.mtr.com.hk

Citybushttps://citybus.com.hk

Kowloon Motor Bus

https://kmb.hk

APP downloading
AndroidIOS

Food & Dine
These are websites and applications on restaurant directory and food delivery commonly used in Hong
Kong.
Official website
Restaurant Directory
Open Rice17

https://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong

APP downloading
AndroidIOS

Something you need to know about
Hong Kong
Official website
Food Delivery
Deliveroo

https://deliveroo.hk/en/

Food Panda

https://www.foodpanda.hk/

KeeTa

https://www.mykeeta.com/

APP downloading

More to be discovered by YOU!

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5/F, Academic Building, 3 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.

https://nursing.hku.hk