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This course is designed to orient students to global health priorities and nursing's unique position in meeting international, health-related goals. Students will use weekly topical areas of interest to engage with policy and practice issues relevant to nursing in low and middle income countries (LMIC). Students are encouraged to compare and contrast nursing education, policy, and practice across settings and in so doing, better understand the contribution of nursing in LMIC and their own readiness to contribute in international settings. Learning activities are designed to introduce students to global health priorities and influential international nursing, nongovernmental, and governmental organizations. Students will discuss the complex influences on health in LMIC and explore the connectedness between these and their own experience nursing in the US. Assignments are designed to provide opportunities to explore and apply an expanded range of resources and evidence to the nursing process as they address global health problems. Prerequisites: NR.120.501-120.522