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Volume 2, Issue 5 (Suppl)
Clin Pediatr, an open access journal
ISSN: 2572-0775
Pediatric Nursing 2017
September 04-05, 2017
September 04-05, 2017 | Edinburgh, Scotland
Pediatric Nursing & Healthcare
28
th
International Conference on
Collaborative pediatric international cultural learning: Mutual learning success
Sharon Elizabeth Metcalfe
Western Carolina University, USA
Statement of the Problem
: The nursing profession is evolving, and expanding to become more international in scope. Jie, Andreatta,
Liping, and Sijian (2010) found that immersion for student nurses experiencing an international perspective facilitates their personal
and professional growth, and allows them to understand different cultures and global issues. International experiences provide
students an awareness of pediatric global nursing issues.
Methodology & Theoretical Orientation
: In a systematic review of 23 empirical articles regarding international student exchange
experiences, Kolbuk, Mitchell, Glick, and Greiner (2012) found that there were not any articles describing two-way exchange
experiences in global pediatric nursing education and there were not any models for best practice for international student clinical
immersion exchanges.
Findings
: This presentation describes the need for understanding pediatric global nursing through exchange programs and discusses
a collaborative partnership between two schools of nursing and a pediatric hospital in the United Kingdom and United Stated of
America. This partnership has been in existence for eight years.
Conclusions&Significance
:The programprepares students for global awareness of pediatric nursing roles through clinical immersion
and self-directed learning experiences. Students are transformed in the clinical mentoring that takes place with guidance of pediatric
nurses in both the pediatric hospital in the United Kingdom and the United States. Students are guided and led through pediatric
clinical experiences with both ambulatory and critically-ill children and are exposed to international differences and similarities in
nursing and medical care. The students learn the various differences in pediatric care within both countries and appreciate the nursing
care practices in delivery of care. This program continues to be successful and proves to be an educational foundation in pediatrics.
Biography
Sharon Elizabeth Metcalfe is an Interim Director and Associate Professor at Western Carolina University in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. She has been a Dean of
Nursing for a private college and an educational grant Researcher with colleges and hospitals. Currently, she is serving on the Board of the North Carolina Nursing
Association Foundation. Her research agenda is on global leadership development and mentoring transformational nurse leaders with pediatric nursing students.
She has been serving as the Program Director of the NN-CAT Program (Nursing Network-Careers and Technology), a national program that provides scholarships,
stipends, and personal mentors to under-represented ethnic minority students.
metcalfe@email.wcu.eduSharon Elizabeth Metcalfe, Clin Pediatr 2017, 2:5(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2572-0775-C1-005