Guatemala Nursing Immersion

This trip will be a 7-10 day immersion with our partner organization, Nursing Heart http://nursingheart.org/. This will be our 3rd trip with Nursing Heart; depending on the numbers and levels of students participating, we will provide care to patients in rural clinics, provide cervical cancer screening with Guatemalan physicians and nurses, do wellness assessments for children in primary schools, and visit a home for orphans who have been abandoned by their families. Depending on interest, we may visit our sister university in Quetzaltenango and a cooperative and birth center for traditional midwives. This opportunity is ideal for DNP 3 students in primary care tracks and will count for 40 hours of clinical, and for BSN students interested in community and public health. Trip is capped at 12 students. The syllabus for this Topics in Global Health course is available from faculty. The Program Fee pays for group food, lodging, transportation, clinic supplies and medicines that we will use to treat patients in village clinics, as well as salaries for our Guatemalan colleagues. SU Course(s): UCOR 3600/NURS 6910