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10 • Academic Nurse The School of Nursing’s WHO Collaborating Center Background The School of Nursing was designated as a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for the International Nursing Development of Advanced Practice in 1996. Its mission is to develop, evaluate, promulgate and sustain innovative models of advanced practice nursing that will improve the health of individuals and societies around the world. This mission continues the School’s long history of coming to the aid of those in need on a global scale. Just as the founder of the School, Anna Maxwell, recruited Columbia nurses in 1898 to assist in field hospitals during the Spanish-American War, and as generations of Columbia nurses have served in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm, the WHO Center is upholding this international focus. Current WHO Center Initiatives Haiti The WHO Center became involved in the relief efforts in Haiti after the devastating earthquake in January 2010. The School teamed with the International Medical Corps, a non-government organization (NGO) with multiple active international initiatives, that helped the School coordinate its efforts to supply nurses and nurse practitioners from its faculty and alumni. To date, 22 of the School’s alumni and faculty have gone to Haiti. Over the critical three-month period from February to May, at least one Columbia nurse representative was present in Port au Prince, working in the main hospital compound and in the countryside for 8-14 day commitments. Even as the immediate emergency response to send clinicians to Haiti has wound down, the need for continued assistance remains overwhelming. The National University of Haiti School of Nursing in Port au Prince was destroyed and the entire second-year class was killed. Columbia is now committed to helping rebuild this school—not with bricks and mortar, but with its expertise in clinical education. The WHO Center hopes to: • Stimulate the re-establishment of formal nursing education at the National University of Haiti School of Nursing both in didactic and in-service clinical site levels • Strengthen nursing instruction and mentorship through programs that will train Haitian nursing educators in the U.S., facilitate student exchanges and develop joint student/faculty projects • Assist in curricular and clinical role development in accordance with the Haitian Ministry of Health’s (MSPP) stated priorities for primary care providers in both hospital and community settings • Assist in the modernization of Haitian nursing education through development of web/internet-based distance Thalia Brent, DNP student, with twins in Haiti
instruction and improved integration of classroom and clinical rotations • Create mechanisms for the exchange of educators and students to develop cooperative projects in academic programming, assessment and evaluation Both national (Haitian) and international staff, working via NGOs in Haiti, will form the basis of these preceptor corps. The School continues to meet with many health provider organizations, including Partners in Health, the Merlin Foundation, and the International Medical Corps in an effort to secure financial support for its proposed endeavors. To date, the development and coordination of preceptor education of the project has been partially funded by the Merlin Foundation. ICAP Nurse CAPACIty INItIAtIve As a partner with the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) Nurse Capacity Initiative (INCI), Columbia’s WHO Collaborating Center is supporting and furthering the mission of strengthening the collaborative network of the INCI’s Centers of Excellence (COE). The School of Nursing is working with the Mailman School of Public Health, the International Council of Nurses, and the University of Fort Hare, A snapshot taken in Haiti of faculty members (center), Dr. Kara Ventura, Dr. Rachel Lyons and Dr. Richard Garfield and CUSON students Thalia Brent (left) and Fabienne Ulysse (right) Fall 2010 • 11 and is funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). INCI is seeking to promote innovative ways to support nursing education institutions at selected sites through development of nursing curriculum, growth and retention of nursing faculty, dialogue in support of basic and advanced nursing degrees and faculty-student exchanges. Using identified country specific needs, INCI will help to advance the nursing profession at the educational level and provide resources for sharing best practices information. Integration of classroom and clinical instruction is competency-based and built on the clinical practice of the School’s faculty and trained clinical preceptors. With the advent of modern technology much of didactic classroom teaching can be achieved on-line, thus conserving scarce resources. Utilizing best practice methods, modular curricula and improved integration of expanded clinical rotations and clinical precepting, identified schools in the COEs will become strong academic units in their own countries. This supportive exchange will heighten skill levels in pre-service education and concurrently provide essential services to patients. Important goals to be achieved are: • Identification of appropriate schools in each country that will become the core of the COE’s initiative as well as become models for other schools in their countries in advancing nursing education • Initiation of case-based curriculum in identified COE schools in order to incorporate state of the practice information (new knowledge) and methods of continuing education for providers and increased scope of practice. This will be accomplished through adaptations in teaching methods to ensure development of critical thinking in a problem-based approach to learning. Faculty will consist of a combination of both volunteer (in kind) and paid consultants from Columbia • Development of mechanisms for faculty and student exchanges amongst identified COE schools and Columbia. This will be accomplished through faculty exchanges, participation in clinical education and
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