The Office of Global Health welcomes international visitors (university faculty, students, nursing and health professionals, scholars and leaders) to observe, interact and learn more about the University of Maryland's (UM) nursing facilities, programs, and opportunities. International visitors bring new cultural and professional perspectives to the School of Nursing community and help expand the School’s understanding of the roles and challenges of the global health nurse.
Maya Abdul-Rahman (September 2011 - November 2011)
Ms. Abdul Rahman RN, BSN, MSN Candidate spent eight weeks in Baltimore at UMMC as a partial fulfillment of her nursing residency program at American University of Beirut (AUB) in Lebanon. Her residency was facilitated by a collaborative initiative between AUB School of Nursing and the University of Maryland School of Nursing. The clinical component of her program was mentored by Karen Kaiser, PhD, RN, Clinical Practice Coordinator of Oncology, Pain, & Palliative Care at UMMC. Maya participated in clinical rounds on three different pain service teams: Pain management team (trauma, adult and pediatrics), palliative care and integrative medicine team. She was exposed to current trends in pain assessment and management, and identification of pain management medications and treatment plans. Faculty members Dr. Deborah Witt-Sherman and Dr. Deb McGuire also provided scholarly mentorship focusing on palliative care research.
Jaehee Kim, PhD (June 2008 – December 2009)
Dr. Kim earned a PhD at Yonsei University, Korea, in 2004. Her dissertation topic was The Relative Efficiency of the Primary Health Care Post and Its Related Factors. Dr. Kim’s experience includes work as a researcher at an non-profit organization for health care consumers and a university lecturer on community health nursing and health education. Her research focus areas are community health nursing and health behaviors, especially for adolescents. Currently, Dr. Kim is studying the utilization of nurses and the process of community participation for reorganizing primary health care in Korea.
Jean-François Desbiens (August 2009 – November 2009)
Mr. Desbiens is a nurse from Canada who has been working in oncology and palliative care for several years. He is also a PhD candidate in nursing at Lavale University, Quebec City. During his IVS program, Professor Deborah Witt-Sherman, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor,, served as his faculty mentor. Mr. Desbiens completed pre-doctoral learning objectives related to research training in palliative care and completion of a survey, Translating and adapting an Instrument Measuring Self-Perceived Palliative Care Nursing Competencies from French to English. His research background involves palliative care nurses’ psychosocial adjustment to stress and palliative care nurses’ competencies. He is also interested in cancer survivorship, the experience of chronic illness, and measurement issues in nursing.
Erick Landeros Olvera (May 2009)
Mr. Landeros Olvera of Mexico City, Mexico, received his MSN in community health from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, where he is currently a PhD candidate. During his IVS program, Professor Barbara Smith, PhD, RN, FAAN, , served as his faculty mentor. Mr. Olvera’s program goals and objectives included pre-doctoral learning experiences to broaden his nursing research training in exercise physiology, international collaboration with exercise physiology researchers and scholars, and assistance in refining research protocol and intervention feasibility for his proposed dissertation study, Physical Exercise in Women with Obesity: Physiological and Self-Concept Adaptation.
Seyda Ozbicakci, PhD, RN (January 2009 – April 2009)
Dr. Ozbicakci, an assistant professor at Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir, Turkey, spent three months with UMSON’s Nursing Informatics program as a post-doctoral fellow, funded by Sigma Theta Tau International and the International Network for Doctoral Education in Nursing. Professor Judy Ozbolt, PhD, RN, FAAN, then-director of UMSON’s Nursing Informatics master’s specialty, served as her faculty mentor. Dr. Ozbicakci took graduate courses in nursing informatics, systems analysis and design, and project management. She also met with informatics nurse specialists and leaders in health care organizations to explore effective methods and approaches to designing and implementing applications. Upon her return to Turkey, Dr. Ozbicakci plans to provide leadership in developing the nursing care planning and documentation components of her university hospital’s health record system.
2010 – 4 visits, 9 people
2009 - 11 visits, 37 people
The International Nurse Exchange Program (INEP) is designed for key nursing and healthcare professionals and offers opportunities to witness standard and high quality nursing practice and education and to develop professional strategies for what is feasible and possible within visitors' home countries. Participants are invited to interact with UMSON faculty, students, and preceptors for approximately 1-2 weeks. This program strives to enhance participants' global health nursing capacity as leaders, educators, and practitioners with a focus on expanding partnerships and beginning new institutional collaborations for the University.