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Refugee Families and Undergraduate Nursing Service-Learning: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally

Refugee Families and Undergraduate Nursing Service-Learning: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
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Author(s): Ruby K. Dunlap (Belmont University, USA)and Emily A. Morse (Metro Public Health Department of Nashville and Davidson County, USA)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 18
Source title: Nursing Education, Administration, and Informatics: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5490-5.ch015

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Abstract

This chapter describes a service-learning partnership between two refugee resettlement agencies and a school of nursing. The partnership has successfully completed its goals of both service and learning over many semesters to the present. This community-based learning opportunity has entailed a variety of health interventions with refugee families while the learning has involved essential competencies of cross-cultural nursing, insights into social determinants of health, and developing confidence in being able to problem solve in a complex mix of health, social systems, poverty, language, and cultural barriers. In addition, assignments connected with this community engagement have encouraged students to develop an awareness of global health issues while intervening locally with their assigned refugee family, thus thinking and acting globally. The authors will discuss lessons learned from this long-term relationship and suggested directions for future work.

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