International Opportunities for Nursing Students
In Spring 1999, President Peggy Gordon Elliot shared her vision for a Lead Forward Land Grant (LFLG) Initiative as a framework to guide strategic planning for the University. Five major priorities now frame the LFLG initiative: Internationally competitive and globally informed students, communication-able students, change-able students, socially responsible students and undergraduate student retention. Enabling students to study outside the United States is one strategy to accomplish this vision for the University. South Dakota State University has agreements for international programs and faculty exchange with Yunnan Normal University in the People's Republic of China, Autonomous University of Moreles in Mexico, Chungnam National University in Korea, Manchester Metropolitan University in England, and the University of Jonkoping in Sweden.
In 1998, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), in The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice, identified that the "increasingly interconnected global environment will affect the health status of individuals and the delivery of health care" (AACN, 1998, p.2). Additionally, the AACN related that specific core knowledge related to human diversity and global health care were essential components of nursing education. South Dakota State University, College of Nursing developed international partnerships that would promote learning in these two core knowledge areas.
As the United States becomes increasingly diverse in its culture, nurses need to understand and meet the needs of individuals in differing health care delivery systems. To prepare internationally competitive and globally informed ursing students, the College of Nursing sponsoree two international opportunities for nursing students. At the present time, students may compete for an opportunity for a five-week visit to the University of Jonkoping in Sweden every Summer to study the nursing and health care delivery system.The two-week visit to Manchester University in England every Spring has been discontinued.
History of visitors to Manchester University in England, please visit our England Website  .
For additional information regarding the University of Jonkoping in Sweden, please visit our Sweden Website.
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