Programs

Nursing

This placement is suited for nursing students seeking an opportunity to apply theory to practice under supervision. Our program, based in Africa, is suited to meet nursing elective, clinical preceptorship, independent study or internships abroad requirements.

The broad objectives and benefits of our nursing program placement include:

• Provide more hands on learning experience than a student would get in a developed world – our participants leave our programs having enhanced their experience levels with various skills
• Provide opportunity to enhance essential skills such as history taking, interviewing, diagnosis, and participating in treatment planning and execution
• Compare and analyze healthcare access and delivery in a different setting
• Participate in tropical medicine and treatment of unusual diseases
• Opportunity to see diseases at advanced clinical stages
• Meet elective and clinical rotation requirements under practitioner supervision with evaluation at the end of the program
• Satisfy independent study or internship abroad for credit
• Demonstrate and satisfy global intellectual curiosity
• Safe and secure program experience while abroad
• Cultural exchange and exposure, particularly from peer students in host country and community
• Travel

A nursing placement in our hospitals or community health facilities is a good opportunity to gain hands on experience and also learn how healthcare is provided in a different setting in a developing country. Because hospitals and clinics are often understaffed, students are likely to assist in a variety of duties. As any nurse in a developing country would attest – the significant healthcare demand coupled with extremely limited resources, particularly in rural areas, requires nurses to learn and perform tasks beyond what is expected of traditional nursing in developed countries. In larger hospitals, particularly teaching hospitals, the demands upon their times and skills are still highly stretched due to the high patient load. Working alongside such highly stretched medical professionals offers a very rich learning experience for student nurses.

While we will work with you to assist you in designing your own program, our standard nursing elective provides nursing students at the tail end of their nursing studies with a 4 week clinical preceptorship to practice medicine in a supervised medical setting and in regularly scheduled sessions, usually in government community health facilities.

Depending on your need, our program can meet several clinical rotation requirements such as Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Pediatrics, Emergency Care, Ob/Gyn, among others