Long-term effects on nursing alumni: Assessing a course in public and global health.

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. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Sheri P Palmer, Karen Lundberg, Karen de la Cruz, Cheryl Corbett, Sondra Heaston, Shelly Reed, Mary Williams. Long-term effects on nursing alumni: Assessing a course in public and global health. Journal of professional nursing : official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. 2017 Nov 01;33(6):436-440

PMID: 29157572

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