Global Nursing
Global Nursing
Develop Global Nursing Competencies
Nursing demand in California is exceedingly high and nurses in short supply. The California State University system produces 60% of California-trained nurses and CSULB is the largest of the five programs in the system. Despite the high diversity in the region, CSULB has only recently begun developing Global Nursing competencies and the College of Health and Human Services has already dedicated resources to the meet much of this need. This grant will serve to weave those efforts into the broader campus internationalization efforts and support the development of Heritage speaker-specific programming in Nursing.
The director of the new Global Outreach Office in Nursing (GOO), Dr. Savitri Singh- Carlson, will create a program of global health competency in nursing that addresses social, cultural and political constructs of health and illness. This includes engaging nursing students in international health care settings in order to encourage heritage language speaking students to gain insight in the social and cultural differences and developing a collaborative with World Health Organization Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Collaborating Center for Research and Clinical Training in Health Promotion Nursing. The global outreach office (GOO) will assist faculty to evaluate students’ competencies and desire to engage in global health at international settings. The development of the PAHO Collaborating Center will address health promotion and disease prevention training for nurses and will also help to advance nursing human resource capacity in diverse languages. Nursing faculty have been taking students for study abroad experiences that include service learning and clinical experiences for the past 6 years to settings such as Iquito, Peru, Cuenca, Ecuador, Vancouver, Canada, Tanzania, and Hannover, Germany. These experiences have been beneficial for students who have integrated this into their career and have become leaders in their profession. Working with the Center for International Education the GOO will help regularize and coordinate such clinical experiences while creating new opportunities, including the one in Cambodia detailed above.