Keywords

study abroad, long-term effects, professionalism

Abstract

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.

Original Publication Citation

Palmer, S., Lundberg, K., Corbett, C., Heaston, S., Reed, S. & Williams, M. (2017). Long-term effects on nursing alumni: Assessing a course in Public and Global Health. Journal of Professional Nursing, 33, 436-440.

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

2017-03-30

Permanent URL

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/7848

Publisher

Journal of Professional Nursing

Language

English

College

Nursing

University Standing at Time of Publication

Full Professor

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