Travel to developing countries exposes one personally and professionally to new and unfamiliar diseases. This session will review real cases illustrating common tropical worms and germs. Join in the group discussion and diagnostic challenge.
Opportunities for mentoring , discipling and learning from majority world healthcare leaders of today and tomorrow have never been more available or diverse. Ministering healing in Jesus’ name can occur within CANs; within national nursing, medical and other allied health schools; and within a growing number of Christian university-based ,health professions schools. Making a long term commitment allows relationship based discipleship that can produce servant healers from among the Americas, Africa and Asia.
This session will outline the advantages of medical education missions compared to direct care missions, give examples of organizations with which attendees can participate in short term medical education missions, identify challenges participants face and ways they can be overcome, and provide examples of the long term impacts recent short term medical education missions have had.
The missionary nurse role has changed over the years from 'doer' of nursing to 'teacher' of nursing. Educational requirements and practice requirements have increased thus the missionary nurse must allow of increased preparation time. Language learning is a critical component of nursing and missions.
When the cultures of the care provider and the recipient of care differs, frequently it is difficult to complete an accurate assessment. Nurses need to be skilled at assessing clients from a variety of ethnicities, countries, and cultures. Elements of assessment will be described and ideas for overcoming potential barriers will suggested.
