title: Using International Videoconferencing to Extend the Global Reach of Community Health Nursing Education.
abstract: Travel abroad provides college students with a unique learning experience. When plans to take undergraduate community health nursing students from the United States to Haiti were cancelled due to health and safety concerns, faculty piloted international videoconferencing with a nursing program in Haiti as an alternative. During this semester-long course, students in both countries assessed a local community using the Community as Partner framework and compared findings during videoconferences with their international peers. Despite communication challenges such as language barriers and limited internet access in Haiti, evaluative data suggests that all students valued learning with their nursing student peers in another country. For future international videoconferencing endeavors, especially with under-resourced communities, we provide recommendations in the following categories: 1) Building relationships with a partner school, 2) Technology, 3) Pedagogy, and 4) Facilitating interactions between students.
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
authors.forename: Rosemary
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ziemba
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
authors.forename: Norma J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Sarkar
authors.affiliation: Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
authors.forename: Becca
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pickus
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
authors.forename: Amber
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dallwig
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
authors.forename: Jiayi Angela
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Wan
authors.affiliation: Faculte des Sciences Infirmieres de Leogane (FSIL), Leogane, Haiti.
authors.forename: Hilda
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Alcindor
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006205:Haiti; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007858:Learning; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D014481:United States; D049269:Videoconferencing
keywords: Community Health Nursing Education; clinical blogs; community assessment; cultural competency; glocal; international videoconferencing