Nursing in an International Context

Hogeschool Utrecht University of Applied Sciences
Lifestyle and Health (HU)

Course code: M9
Advanced bachelor level

• Are you a bachelor or master student in Nursing and interested in the international aspect of the nursing profession?
• Do you want to learn from nursing students from other countries?
• Do you want to cooperate professionally with nursing students from abroad as well as from the Hogeschool Utrecht, the University of Applied Sciences and Utrecht university?
• Do you want to study and taste the cultural differences at the same time?
•Are you prepared to follow a two-week intensive course in Utrecht, the centre of the Netherlands?

This summer school is an opportunity for you! You will collaborate with students and teachers of other countries, follow an intensive program, visit health care institutes and will be inspired by experienced teachers.

The program exists of: lectures, workshops, excursions to see clinical practices, and presentations of fellow students. We expect students to prepare some of the parts in advance and bring the information with them and to participate actively in this summer school.

» Download the day-to-day programme (PDF)

COURSE DIRECTOR

Pieterbas Lalleman, MA RN

LOCATION

- Utrecht, The Netherlands

TARGET GROUP

Nursing students, Bachelor and Master level, in the second, third or fourth year.

COURSE AIM

• Using reflective approach students will engage in discussion, comparison and interpretation of the impact of macro, meso and micro factors on the delivery and experience of nursing care in the different countries which are present at the Summer School.
• Demonstrate ways of managing communication, conflict and ambiguity in a multi cultural setting.
• Manage oneself according to professional standards and codes of conduct within a multi cultural group.
• Demonstrate interest, respect and open mindedness in relation to competing ideologies and different cultural behaviors.
• Recognize the differences and similarities in professional nursing in other countries, taking into account dynamic social, cultural , spiritual, legal, political and economic factor.
• Explore the choice, application and effectiveness of nursing theories and conceptual frameworks in nursing education and practice in different settings.

In this summer school students have the opportunity to view health care and nursing issues from many perspectives, learn about other cultures and by doing that: to learn about their own culture.

PERIOD

05-07-2010 - 16-07-2010 (2 weeks)

CREDITS

5.0 ECTS credits + Certificate of Attendance

FEE

• € 775 - Course + course materials + housing
• € 300 - Course + course materials + housing (partners only)

DISCOUNTS AND COMBINATIONS

Overview of all available discounts