An international internship on social development led by Canadian nursing students: Empowering learning

Zanchetta, Margareth Santos; Schwind, Jasna; Aksenchuk, Kateryna; Gorospe, Franklin; Santiago, Lira

doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2013.04.019

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“…Qualitative studies originate from the naturalistic paradigm in which knowledge emerges from researcher–participant interactions. 18 In content analysis, as one of the approaches of qualitative research, the researcher reaches a deep understanding of the concepts relevant to the topic of interest and the codes and sentences are systematically subdivided into categories. Through this, the phenomenon is easily understandable through constructing a conceptual model or map.…”

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<p>Challenges of Clinical Nursing Training Through Internship Approach: A Qualitative Study</p>

Ahmadi¹,

Abdi²,

Nazarianpirdosti³

et al. 2020

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Background Nursing education programs are designed to decrease the gap between theory and practice. It is believed that internship programs can decrease this gap. An internship program has newly been implemented in Kermanshah Nursing School. However, the efficiency of this program has not been assessed. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to explore the challenges related to the internship education of nursing students. Methods The study was conducted as qualitative research. The participants were eight nursing students who had at least one semester of experience in internship. They were selected through purposive sampling. Data gathering was done through semi-structured interviews, which were recorded and analyzed through a three-stage content analysis approach. For data management, MAXQDA-10 was used. Results Out of the eight participants, three were male, and all were in the final year of their education. In total, 423 primary codes emerged after analyses, which were placed in seven categories, including: education before internship, lack of support, planning difficulties, interaction with staff, invisible evaluation, welfare defects, and professional identity. Conclusion The study revealed the challenges of the internship program for nursing students in Iran. Some of the problems were related to educational background, others were associated with the shortcomings of the cultural aspects of the context. Therefore, it is recommended to optimize the clinical training of nursing students in the internship program by addressing these challenges.

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<p>Challenges of Clinical Nursing Training Through Internship Approach: A Qualitative Study</p>

Ahmadi¹,

Abdi²,

Nazarianpirdosti³

et al. 2020

JMDH

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“…In addition, today more than ever, students are seeking educational programs that teach them the skills to work in an international environment [24]. In response, many academic degree programs have incorporated international experiences as part of their degree requirement in order to provide an opportunity for students to experience work in the real-world, different cultures, and system [25]. The number of US students going abroad for international experience has been on the rise.…”

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Quantifying impacts of internships in an international agriculture degree program

Henneberry

Radmehr

2020

PLoS ONE

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The completion of a meaningful, hands-on international experience is a critical and required component of the Master of International Agricultural degree Program (MIAP) at Oklahoma State University. Understanding the impacts of the international experience/internship is important in designing a curriculum that well-prepares students for their personal, social, academic, and future professional life. Hence, the objective of this study is to evaluate the MIAP students' international experiences and to determine the factors that impact international experience outcomes. The benefits of international experiences are divided into five outcome areas that include personal, interpersonal, academic, employment, and civic impacts. The data is collected through an online survey of MIAP students. The variance based partial least squares structural equation modeling is used to develop three separate models with the goal of statistically measuring academic, employment, and civic impacts. The results of this study show that interns believe that international experience had enhanced each of their abilities. The findings of all three models show that the Humphreys travel grant has a statistically significant effect on interpersonal impacts. Additionally, the length of internship has a statistically significant association with personal impact in all three models, while it has a statistically positive indirect impact on academic, employment, and civic impact models, which indicates the full mediation effect. In addition, the number of hours worked weekly during the internship is found to have a significant positive relationship with employment impacts.

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“…These often include: differences in nursing undergraduate curricula, including structure, expectations and standards; faculty support of the students -who will supervise and guide students to achieve their learning expectations; financial support of the student travel and living accommodations at the host country; safety of the students and faculty, especially in these uncertain times with regard to the political and economic instability in many parts of the world; and safety of clients, should an error occur, thus implicating the legal system of the host country, which may differ from that of the home country (Zanchetta et al, 2013). If the international placement is expected to garner full course credit at the home institution and the faculty is not accompanying the students to the host country, who will evaluate their performance?…”

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“…First, using semi-structured individual interviews, we were interested to learn how well our current curriculum prepared the students for such an experience, and how they found the current procedure of arranging international student placements within our university (Zanchetta, Schwind, Aksenchuk, Gorospe & Santiago, 2013). Second, we wanted to gain an appreciation of students' perceptions about how they experienced their international placement and what value they drew from it for their personal and professional 706 J.…”

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Nursing students’ international placement experience: an arts-informed Narrative Inquiry

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Zanchetta

Aksenchuk

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Research shows that high cultural competence is most often acquired through both the theoretical education and the practical experiences within the international contexts. The purpose of this project evaluation was to learn from four undergraduate nursing students, who spent three-months in a Brazilian community, how they experienced their international placement. Students' emotive responses to their international placement were elicited using the creative Narrative Reflective Process, which is informed by the Narrative Inquiry qualitative framework. This process included stories, memory box, metaphor and drawing, and creative writing. The generated creative data were reflected upon by the participants and key narrative threads teased out. The overarching findings speak to the transcultural exchange that took place: students went to teach the local population of Brazil about the social determinants of health from the Canadian perspective, while in turn learning life lessons from their hosts that enriched their personal and professional ways of being.

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An international internship on social development led by Canadian nursing students: Empowering learning

Cited by 22 publications

References 18 publications

<p>Challenges of Clinical Nursing Training Through Internship Approach: A Qualitative Study</p>

<p>Challenges of Clinical Nursing Training Through Internship Approach: A Qualitative Study</p>

Quantifying impacts of internships in an international agriculture degree program

Nursing students’ international placement experience: an arts-informed Narrative Inquiry

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