Original ArticlesGlobal Health Competencies for Nurses in the Americas
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Background
There have been several studies conducted in the past 15 years to identify ways in which nursing programs incorporate international or global health concepts in their curricula. Wright, Godue, Manfredi, and Korniewicz (1998) surveyed representatives from 100 university schools of nursing in the United States plus 15 schools with known international activities (10 from the United States and 5 from Latin America and the Caribbean) to identify the extent to which international health was addressed
Methods
This exploratory descriptive survey was led through a team of faculty members at four Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Nursing Collaborating Centers: The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Johns Hopkins University, the National University of Mexico, and the University of Sao Paulo at Ribeirao Preto College of Nursing. The survey developed for the study was adapted for nurses from the GHEC/AFMC Resource Group list of global health competencies for
Findings
The data were analyzed using the PASW Statistics 17 software package. Means and standard deviations were calculated for the items in each of the six subscales and also for each of the 30 competencies. Data for the English and Spanish survey respondents were analyzed separately.
Discussion
Although there have been several other studies examining the extent to which global health concepts are taught in nursing educational programs, to our knowledge, this project is the first survey to identify perceptions of nursing faculty about interprofessional global health competencies that should be addressed in nursing curricula. The quantitative findings indicate that the respondents perceive the adapted GHEC/AFMC competencies as important for undergraduate nursing students. The
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