Program Overview

University Program Details

The university offers various programs for students in the fields of Nursing, Midwifery, and Paramedicine. These programs provide students with opportunities for professional practice and community engagement in different countries.

Program Locations

• India: This nursing and midwifery professional practice and community engagement placement allows students to engage collaboratively with local communities and health professionals to provide health promotion, health care, and community engagement activities facilitated by the Catholic Health Association of India in Hyderabad.
  • Students gain insights into the challenges of offering health care in a developing region and a global perspective.
• Vanuatu: This nursing and midwifery professional practice and community engagement placement offers a unique experience in the Port Vila Central Hospital and Emua Village community.
  • Students work directly with patients, clients, and local health workers to provide clinical care to patients and collaborate with family members.
  • Students also stay with a family in Emua Village and provide health checks to school children, offer maternal and child care, and any care that is required of community village members while experiencing and learning about NiVan culture.
• Timor Leste: This nursing, midwifery, and paramedicine professional practice and community engagement placement offers a unique experience to engage with local communities and to work alongside healthcare professionals.
  • Students examine the impact of cultural beliefs and practices upon health and wellbeing and evaluate the global trends and developments relating to health and wellbeing in a developing country.
  • Students gain insights into the challenges of offering health care in a developing region and a global perspective.
• Chile: (2027) The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago de Chile facilitates this nursing professional and community engagement placement.
  • Students attend lectures on the Chilean healthcare system and the health issues affecting their population.
  • Students also visit public and private healthcare facilities in Santiago and learn about the Indigenous Mapuche community and their traditional health therapies and challenges.
• Denmark: (alternate years: offered next in 2027) This nursing professional placement is facilitated by VIA University College at the Aarhus University Hospital.
  • Students experience acute care areas including acute care surgical, acute care medical, acute care rehabilitation, and acute care emergency.
• Nepal: During this two-week program, nursing students engage in professional practice experience through the provision of health promotion, healthcare, and community engagement activities relevant to the region.
  • Clinical placements take place at Grande International Hospital and Tilganga Eye Hospital in Kathmandu.
• The Philippines: This nursing professional placement is facilitated by the University of Santo Tom嫳 in Manila.
  • Students work alongside local health practitioners in clinics, hospitals, and community organisations to provide health promotion, health care, and community engagement activities.
• United States of America
  • Boston: (2027) This nursing experience includes an observational placement in a healthcare setting and a week of community engagement activities in partnership with Boston College.
    • Students attend lectures on the healthcare system to gain a unique perspective and engage with local healthcare professionals as well as nursing students from other countries.
  • North Carolina: (2027) This nursing clinical placement is facilitated by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
    • Students attend lectures on the healthcare system and specific care issues experienced by the American population.
    • Students also visit healthcare facilities to undertake clinical simulation activities.

Eligibility

These experiences are available to second- and third-year Bachelor of Nursing students enrolled in unit NRSG267/NRSG373 Integrating Practice 4/5, Bachelor of Midwifery students enrolled in unit MIDW351 Global Perspectives on Midwifery, and Bachelor of Paramedicine students enrolled in unit PARA323 Community Engagement and Paramedic Practice Innovations.