The Global Challenges week, from Sept. 26-30, brings together Ohio University students, faculty, staff, and community members who share an academic interest in the major global challenges of today and tomorrow. This week-long event focuses on global hunger, climate change, health crises, and human disasters which can only be addressed through the pooling and sharing of knowledge across disciplines.
Most of the events can be viewed live or following the event on A&S TV.
- Friday, Sept. 30 – Eliza Harper (Nursing) and Global Health Initiatives students on “Botswana Healthcare–Interprofessional Study Abroad Experience,” 3-4 p.m. at Alden 319 (co-sponsored with African Studies and Global Health Initiative). Watch on A&S TV.
Abstract: As the U.S. population becomes more culturally and socioeconomically diverse, the need for effective team-based and cross-cultural healthcare providers becomes imperative. Nursing and Medicine’s accrediting bodies have incorporated requirements for integration of cultural competence and interprofessional education into professional competencies and are recognizing the need for practitioners to better understand the influences of cultural and structural barriers such as economics and education on health and healthcare. Through an environment of shared learning and intellectual inquiry, interdisciplinary global study abroad supports direct engagement with real-world challenges to nurture communication and collaboration across disciplinary boundaries. This presentation discusses the Botswana Healthcare Study Abroad interprofessional experiential learning experience.
Biography: Harper MSN, RN is Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at Ohio University College of Health Science and Professions. Harper earned a Master of Science in Nursing from Otterbein University and a Post-Master’s Advanced Nurse Educator certification from Otterbein University in 2011. Harper has held a Registered Nurse license in the state of Ohio since September 1982. She practiced clinical nursing in central and southeastern Ohio from 1984 until 2007 in adult critical care with a focus on cardiac and multi-system failure. From 2007 until 2012, her practice focused on case management, healthcare finance, and community health nursing redirecting her career interests to the impact of culture and structure on care delivery. She participated in the 2011 Community Health Needs Assessment for Perry County, served from 2012-2016 as a member on the Perry County branch of the Ohio State University Extension Office Advisory Board, is a member of the interprofessional Perry County Access to Care Committee from 2011 until present, and has lead the development and implementation of community health awareness and screening events in the Perry County region since 2010.
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