RESUMO
The impact of a cultural awareness course among nursing students may affect the particular person for years to come. Cultural awareness can be taught via many methods, often requiring study abroad and/or extreme investment of time, money and effort. There is little research on sustained effects on nursing alumni from such a course. The purpose of this descriptive survey study was to determine the long term outcomes of a cultural awareness course and 2) compare the long term effects between alumni who went abroad and those who chose to complete the course locally. One hundred and twenty-one nursing alumni completed the International Education Survey (IES) (Zorn, 1996) with additional open-ended questions. Quantitative and qualitative results concluded: 1) nursing alumni were influenced long term by a course dedicated to public and global health and 2) all alumni had statistically significant IES scores but alumni who studied abroad had the greatest increase.
Assuntos
Diversidade Cultural , Saúde Global/educação , Intercâmbio Educacional Internacional , Estudantes de Enfermagem/psicologia , Adulto , Bacharelado em Enfermagem/métodos , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Pesquisa em Educação em Enfermagem , Profissionalismo , Pesquisa Qualitativa , Inquéritos e QuestionáriosRESUMO
To expand student appreciation of global health and diversity, many schools of nursing offer study abroad programs. However, this type of labor-intensive program can be difficult in light of faculty shortages and constrained resources. The authors discuss how these issues were addressed using alumni and graduate students as affiliate teachers in 3 clinical study abroad settings.
