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our global neighbors. The National Health System of Italy was highlighted with

a tour of San Giovanni Calibita Hospital on Tiber Island. Our group was greeted

by nurse leaders and given an insight of health care delivery in Italy and the

role of the nurse. Perhaps the best photo opportunities of the trip occurred at the

shrine to Florence Nightingale in the famous Santa Croce (Holy Cross). If only

Florence knew what a powerful impact she would have on the future of nursing.

I, for one, am glad that I cleared my work schedule for 10 days to go on this

memorable study abroad. Looking back, my life was not put on hold but rather

given the opportunity to immerse in the culture of a new land. Through the lens

of a DNP student, I was able investigate a different health care system and com-

pare it with the U.S. health care system. I will forever cherish these memories

and will think about how I enjoyed many gelatos with my fellow DNP students!

Margie Molloy, DNP, RN, CNE, CHSE, Director, Center for Nursing Discovery, Duke University

School of Nursing, Duquesne University School of Nursing, Class of 2015

■ CASE STUDY III: A DNP Student’s Perspective of a Global

Immersion Experience in Italy (continued)

■ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This chapter is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Kathy P. Falkenstein (December 7, 1952
to June 4, 2010), who accompanied traveling Drexel students and faculty to London in
2007 and Dublin in 2009.

■ CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS

1. How important is it for you to be educated with a “global nursing scholar framework?”


2. Describe a couple of international nursing/ health- related issues of which you believe you
   would have a better comprehension if only you had more live experience/ experiential expo-
   sure to them.


3. How has international travel helped your global IQ, or have you had limited or no interna-
   tional travel experiences?


4. Undergraduate study- abroad models have proliferated. Should graduate study abroad be as
   prevalent? Why or why not?


5. Our research indicates there is a shortage of nursing study- abroad opportunities. Why is
   this so and what could be done about it?


6. If you had to design an international clinical practicum in your DNP degree, what would it entail?


7. Americans, even educated ones, are notoriously monolingual. Do you speak a second lan-
   guage, and what value to international health in the context of your career trajectory would
   being proficient in a second language be?


8. Describe how a lack of study- abroad opportunities for nurses, particularly doctoral graduate
   nursing students, impacts the health of the average global citizen. Or does it?


9. What did you learn from the three narrative experiences of the two Drexel and Duquesne
   DNP students who described their study- abroad program in London, Dublin, and Rome?


10. How would you go about helping to implement a similar study- abroad program in your
    own DNP program?