Cultural humility and the importance of long-term relationships in international partnerships.
This article describes an education, leadership, and health professional interchange project in the Dominican Republic. It emphasizes the importance of long-term relationships and explores how over time, dialogue has led to cultural humility, self-reflection, and empowerment among nursing colleagues across national boundaries, despite differences in assumptions. The project is an example of a north-south collaboration encouraged by the World Health Organization to strengthen nursing and midwifery globally.
Foster
Jennifer
J
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. jennifer.foster@emory.edu
D000069:Acculturation; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel / Q000208:ethnology; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D054521:Cultural Competency / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D004293:Dominican Republic; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D007393:International Educational Exchange; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007857:Leadership; D016389:Maternal-Child Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration; D009721:Nurse Midwives / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D050497:Stillbirth / Q000208:ethnology; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States