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International Clinical Experience
in Honduras

Expand Cross Cultural Skills
Collaborate with Multidisciplinary Teams

During senior year nursing students have the opportunity to participate in a clinical experience in Honduras. This fulfills clinical requirements for Community as Partner and Focused Professional Practice courses.

During a twelve day stay in Honduras, students work with people in an indigent, rural, mountainous area. Students participate in a variety of of activities including: work in remote day clinics and an established clinic, elementary and school room education, and community assessments. Each day students work in an assigned area as part of a multidisciplinary team. In addition to nurses, the team consists of medical students, residents, physicians, dentists and other allied health professionals.

In order to participate in these clinical rotations you must:

1. able to walk two miles over rough, uneven, mountainous terrain carrying two liters of water, a change of clothes and other personal items,
2. maintain a GPA of 2.8 Honduras (college and university),
3. meet all prerequisites for Community as Partner and Ambulatory Care,
4. meet all financial obligations as set by Director of Center for International Affairs, no extensions or refunds permitted,
5. complete the following forms/documents:
   
   • online application, must be submitted electronically by Noon, February 21, 2008,
   • submit copies of both Foundations of Nursing and Care of the Adult clinical evaluations to Liz Karle, 426 Procter, or Claudia Mitchell, Clermont College, by Noon, February 21, 2008,
   • submit copies of evaluations from all other clinical courses within two weeks of completion of the course to Liz Karle, 426 Procter, or Claudia Mitchell, Clermont College,
6. all students will be interviewed on Monday, February 25, 2008, time and location will be sent upon receipt of a completed application packet,
7. obtain a passport, necessary visas and immunizations,
8. attend all meetings and scheduled packing days,
9. keep all application information current (via email),
10. complete all course work in the quarter.

This experience is done through Shoulder to Shoulder, a private, non-profit, non-governmental, organization (NGO), formed in 1996 to provide health care in rural Honduras.

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