Thesis
Understanding the meaning of an international community focused teaching-learning experience in Peru
Washington State University
Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
2009
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/103160
Abstract
In response to the continually changing diversity of patients accessing healthcare in the United States, nurse educators have had to modify how they prepare student nurses to provide culturally competent care. Many colleges of nursing have chosen to incorporate international immersion experiences as a means of helping their students increase cultural competency. Washington State University College of Nursing (WSU-CON) implemented the International Healthcare Course in 2006 as an immersion course available to nursing, pharmacy, and other health professions students. During the course, students provide primary healthcare and health education to poor communities. The purpose of this qualitative study is to better understand how the common experiences of students in an international immersion teaching-learning experience informs educational practices. After completion of the trip students were asked to answer questions in which they reflected on their experiences. Data analysis was done by a team of researchers using Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenology. The researchers reviewed the texts provided by participants, wrote and shared their interpretations, and identified common themes. Three overarching themes were identified: Learning by transforming myself through the new and unfamiliar, learning via living with constraints (people, place, and resources), and learning as influencing the "little things" of everyday living. These themes encompass the learning that occurred through a personal inventory and changes in attitudes and biases, interactions with fellow participants and patients, and through providing primary healthcare and education to their patients.
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- Title
- Understanding the meaning of an international community focused teaching-learning experience in Peru
- Creators
- Victoria Sattler
- Contributors
- Carol Easley Allen (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Nursing, College of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; [Pullman, Washington] :
- Identifiers
- 99900525112901842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis