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 Transcultural
Immersion:
Christian Nursing in Nigeria
September
19, 2008 - September 30, 2008
Site:
Jos, Abuja and surrounding villages will be the service-learning sites.
Program:
Cross-cultural training and preparation, followed by professional visits
to various academic and clinical sites. We will join Nigerian nurses in
a medical outreach to persons with HIV/AIDS and their families. Journaling,
reflection and small group debriefing will enable us to prayerfully apply
what we learn to our personal and professional lives.
Continuing
Nursing Education Credit:
Nurses Christian Fellowship® is an approved provider of continuing nursing
education by the Wisconsin Nurses Association Continuing Education Approval
Program Committee, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education
by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Full-time participants
at this educational activity will earn thirty (30) contact hours of CNE
credit.
Resources for those
desiring to apply for academic credit through an institution in which
they are enrolled is available upon request.
Pre-requisite:
Nurses Christian Fellowship International Conference, Strengthened to
Serve: A Christian Response to Global Health Needs, September 14-18, 2008,
Jos, Nigeria (download
conference brochure in pdf). For more information see http://www.ncfi.org/nigeria08.php.
Reading assignments and other preparatory materials will be sent upon
registration.
The purpose of this
post-conference experience is to expose American nurses to best practices in Nigerian Christian nursing
in Nigeria and to develop servant-learning attitudes in a cross-cultural
setting.
Objectives-The
participant will:
1. Assess personal level of culture shock.
2. Describe cross-cultural servanthood, including three essential personal
attitudes.
3. List six steps in the process of cross-cultural servanthood
4. Experience cross-cultural communication
5. Describe one university nursing program in Nigeria
6. Describe the nursing care of persons with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria
7. Describe nursing in a rural hospital setting in Nigeria
8. Explain the hospital-based educational preparation of nursing students
in Nigeria
9. Participate in medical mission outreach
10. Assess personal responses to cross-cultural experience
* Note US
nurses cannot provide direct patient care unless licensed in Nigeria.
Our participation will be in non-clinical roles.
Application
Deadline:
May 1, 2008: Participants will be limited to 16.
Project
Director(s):
Judith Allen Shelly and Renee Lick
Project
Directors Bios:
Judy Shelly, RN, BSN, MA, DMin, NCF staff for Spiritual
Formation and Prayer, has authored, co-authored or edited 19 books related
to spirituality in nursing. Most recently, Called to Care: A Christian
Worldview for Nursing (InterVarsity Press, 2006) and Spiritual Care: A
Guide for Caregivers (InterVarsity Press, 2000). She has taught theology
of nursing, ethics and spiritual care in both academic and continuing
nursing education settings throughout the USA, as well as in cross-cultural
settings in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Scotland, The Netherlands and Canada.
Renee Lick,
RN, BSN is an NCF staff member who coordinates student ministry in the
Chicago area and also works part-time as a clinic nurse at Lawndale Christian
Health Center. She has lived and worked cross-culturally near the Navajo
and Zuni reservations in New Mexico and now currently in the diverse city
of Chicago. Renee served as staff on an InterVarsity Global Project to
Kenya in 2007.
Application
& information:
(download application
in Word)
Nurses Christian Fellowship
PO Box 7895
Madison WI 53707-7895
608-443-3697 or 608-443-3690
 Email NCF
Project
Contact:
Judy Shelly
Email Judy Shelly
Project
Cost:
$250 non-refundable conference fee due with your application. In-country
costs, including accommodation, meals, and travel from September 19-30,
2008, will be between $800-950, depending on your choice of hotel accommodations
and meals. You are responsible for your own in-country costs and round-trip
trans-continental travel from your point of origin to Abuja, Nigeria. Specific travel information.
Project
Disclaimer:
The costs are subject to change. Flexibility is always a factor in cross-cultural
events in a changing global economy. The cost does not cover immunizations,
passports, visas, meals, accommodation, and travel within Nigeria or from
the USA to Nigeria. Nurses Christian Fellowship USA, a ministry of InterVarsity
Christian Fellowship of the U.S.A. is a member of the Evangelical Council
for Financial Accountability and the International Nurses Christian Fellowship
International (NCFI).
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