AROUND THE WORLD MARCELLA NIEHOFF SCHOOL OF NURSING
Teaching the teachers
A new Loyola program certifies nurses from Indonesia and Vietnam to train others.
around the globe. Loyola is striving to combat this shortage not only through the education of doctors, nurses, and support workers that takes place on campus every year, but also through an innovative new international program. A cohort of nurses from Vietnam and Indonesia are working to- ward a Master of Science in Nursing degree at Loyola in the hope that they will then be able to better address health care challenges in their home countries. “Almost every student says he or she
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is accustomed to many patients and not many nurses educated at the baccalaureate level,” says P. Ann Solari-Twadell, PhD, RN, MPA, FAAN, a School of Nursing professor currently teaching Advanced Theory and Concepts. The five Indonesian and six Vietnamese
students, who work in health care where they live, first came to Loyola for a five-week course session and orientation to the pro- gram this past summer. Patty McNally, EdD, MSM, of the Stritch
School of Medicine, taught the first class— Leading Self and Others—to the internation- al students. She describes the experience as both challenging and rewarding. “It was an absolute delight,” McNally says.
ccording to a 2006 World Health Organization report, there is a shortage of close to 4.3 million health workers
“We worked from a book introducing them to many concepts: recognizing who they are in their communities, what skills they bring, investigating emotional intelligence. They were engaged and intrigued to hear the role of the nurse in American society—here, nurses are largely recognized as an integral part of the health care team, perhaps more than in their home countries.” After the five weeks at Loyola, the
students returned home and now take their courses online for the remaining two years of the program. Solari-Twadell teaches her class at 7 a.m., which, for the students in both Indonesia and Vietnam, is 7 p.m. “The focus of this course is to help them
to think in a new way,” Solari-Twadell says. “So they choose a concept that is important to their work and will complete an analysis of that concept. For example, one student works in the community and has a particular interest in HIV. One works in pediatrics and is interested in how families of newborns are cared for. A couple are in medical surgical settings.” The other part of the course focuses on
nursing theory, and the students are also taking another class on nursing informatics. “I have great admiration for the stu-
dents,” says Solari-Twadell. “They are doing advanced studies in another language. They are challenged to comprehend and integrate this new knowledge into not only their set- tings, but into the health care culture and nursing education in their countries.” Upon completion of the program, the
students will be qualified to teach advanced nursing, thus passing on the knowledge and expertise gained to other health workers in their respective nations.
“I have great admiration for the students. They are doing advanced stud- ies in another language.”
— P. ANN SOLARI-TWADELL, SCHOOL OF NURSING
22 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
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