Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

U.S. nursing students in Nicaragua: a community health clinical experience

2002; UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO; Volume: 10; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0104-11692002000100016

1518-8345

Rita L. Ailinger,

Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations

During the January intercession each year students at George Mason University (GMU) in Virginia, USA, have the opportunity to take two week intensive courses for credit.While their fellow students are vacationing or working, students gain credit in a shorter time.For the last seven years, the College of Nursing and Health Science at GMU has offered an intensive community health clinical experience for 6-8 students in Nicaragua.The experience is led by the authors.This article describes some of the experiences of students in the most recent cohort.As we departed for the six hour flight from Virginia to Managua, students were excited and anxious about the journey they were about to undertake.They asked themselves if they were ready for the two week intensive clinical learning and cultural immersion in a Spanish-speaking developing country. Upon arrival in Managua