An advanced practice international health initiative: the Ghana Health Mission.
Nursing faculty members are responsible for meeting service, teaching, scholarship, and developing international relations requirements for tenure and promotion in most universities. The profession of nursing requires that nursing faculty, especially nurse practitioner faculty, maintain clinical excellence and prepare culturally competent graduates. The question remains, how can we do it all? A unique, advanced practice, international health initiative in Ghana West Africa was developed to help provide health promotion to a community in need. It has evolved into a project that has facilitated the achievement of those aforementioned requirements of university faculty.
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Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634-0743, USA. anitah@clemson.edu
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005869:Ghana; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007391:International Cooperation; D008875:Middle Aged; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education*; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000193:education*; D014481:United States