Global Health Nursing Field Experience

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Resident Prerequisite: NURS 221 Online Prerequisite: NURS 220 This course is a nursing elective specifically developed for students that will be going overseas during or immediately after the semester they are taking this course. The student will be tested on their Cultural Intelligence and will be required to create an action plan to increase their areas of strength and grow in areas of weakness. This student will be exposed to the needs, duties, conflicts and cultural barriers of working as a professional nurse in a culture other than their home culture. This class provides the student with an opportunity to examine personal values and beliefs as they are related to health practices of people from other cultures. NURS 316 is an elective that can be utilized for both residential and online undergraduate BSN students. Registration Restrictions: Admission to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program