NURS 453 Leadership in Professional Nursing Cultural Immersion
This course provides students with an opportunity to complete their clinical internship in a cultural immersion experience. Emphasis is placed on understanding the implications of health and wellbeing within other cultures and helping students to develop a greater awareness of how the global community is interconnected.
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In nursing we have senior nursing students going abroad for their N451 course (required course 3 credits). They have historically always taken the course for 3 credits, even though most study abroad J-term courses are 4 credits that are similar in length of time in the country. We also realized that we didn't have a place where course policies, etc. were being communicated to the students...and they never were really doing everything the same as the students who were here in the US. To clean this up for the students and faculty who are teaching the courses, we put together a 1 credit N453 syllabus that will be a nursing elective. The syllabus addresses the international/cultural components of the course to include objectives and in country expectations. etc. Students will also take the regular N451 (3 credit) that addresses the nursing care outcomes and then they will take the elective 1 credit course in addition to cover the cultural components.