Nursing Clinical Community & Families in India

Location: Chennai - India
Dates: December 26, 2013 - January 17, 2014 (dates may change slightly)
Course: Nursing 418
Accommodation: university housing; hotels
Program Model: Faculty-led
Contact: Denise Turnmeyer, N/E 326, 424-2121

Complete clinical rotations in Chennai India!

Compare nursing & healthcare in India while on a journey with other UW Oshkosh students and faculty in Chennai, New Delhi, and Dehradun, where you will examine nursing, health and health care in a diverse culture! Visit medical facilities, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Jamia Hamdard Universityand the Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust School of Nursing. Meet with health care officials and attend academic sessions on Unani Medicine (alternative medicine).

GAIN PERSPECTIVES on international nursing and discover
how it differs from national and regional activities;

DEVELOP AN UNDERSTANDING of international health care organizations
and agreements and compare to the United States;

UNDERSTAND THE NEED to analyze economic and non-economic factors
that may influence health and nursing in foreign countries;

GAIN KNOWLEDGE of alternative ways of structuring nursing organizations,
control procedures and performance evaluations;

ACHIEVE GREATER GLOBAL AWARENESS, especially in relation to
developing economic markets; and

GROW PERSONALLY from new awareness of the increasingly complex global environment and from meeting the challenges of living and traveling in other countries.