title: Establishing a nursing student learning center for women's reproductive health in Nepal.
abstract: The goal of this paper is to describe the establishment of a self-sustaining Student Learning Center (SLC) employing humanistic anatomical models to aid in the teaching of family planning and reproductive health clinical skills to nursing students in Nepal. In response to a local needs assessment a plan was developed to implement more thorough training of nursing students in family planning clinical skills. Nepalese nursing leaders worked together with a U.S. Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) to implement this project. This paper details the need for the SLCs, the content and structure of the SLCs, and the process of establishing an SLC at Tribhuvan University, Maharjgunj Nursing Campus in Kathmandu, the largest of all nursing campuses in Nepal.
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan School of Nursing, Michigan, US. sik@umich.edu
authors.forename: S I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Knecht
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009390:Nepal; D024802:Nurse's Role; D018456:Reproductive Medicine; D016387:Women's Health