Impacting Community Wellness Nursing program is an ASYNCHRONOUS program focused on the health system, common chronic and infectious diseases and their treatments, and the role of Community Health Workers (CHWs) found in Honduras. This program with medical content is aimed at undergraduate Nursing students and concludes with the creation of educational content to train CHWs to better serve their community members.
Students in this program will:
- Explore details of region-specific diseases and health issues impacting individual and community health.
- Understand pharmacological practices and the application of traditional medicines.
- Watch the interaction between Honduran doctors and patients in a rural setting.
- Understand how our parent NGO’s (Global Brigades) Community Health Workers program works in Honduras.
- Learn how to conduct monitoring and evaluations in a health program.
- Develop educational materials to be used by CHWs with their community members.
- Complete auto-graded learning assessments (Quiz) and Self-Reflection Activities (auto-graded based on student participation).
- Collaborate with fellow students to create an educational video for CHWs use with their community members (video projects to be graded by the faculty member, or auto-graded based on student participation).
NURSING ASYNCHRONOUS Program Learning Objectives
Students who successfully complete the NURSING Program will be able to:
- Explain how the social determinants of health impact the lives of people in rural communities in a developing country.
- Understand the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of common diseases.
- Observe the medical-patient interaction during a consultation in rural settings.
- Provide educational materials to be used by Community Health Workers with their community members on the prevention of infectious diseases and how to live with a chronic illness.
ASYNCHRONOUS SESSIONS
Module 1 – Global Brigades Overview
- Watch the “Global Brigades Foundations” video that reviews the Holistic Model and the community development approach and activities of the NGO.
Quiz 1 – Global Brigades foundations.
- Watch the video to learn about the Honduran context.
Quiz 2 – The Honduras context.
Module 2 – Introduction to the Medical and Healthcare Systems in Honduras
- Watch the “Global Brigades Medical Program in Honduras” video.
- Watch the “Healthcare System in Honduras” video.
Quiz 3 – Medical and healthcare systems in Honduras.
Activity 1 – Students reflect and write responses to the following questions:
- What is the difference between training medical doctors in Honduras compared to training medical doctors in your country?
- What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Honduras healthcare system?
- Compare and contrast the Honduras healthcare system with the one in your home country (Think about aspects such as:cost, quality, medications, insurance, accessibility, coverage, etc.)
- Activity 2 – Review the Spanish Medical Vocabulary and Phrasebook to understand some of the terms used in the clinic´s recorded video.
Module 3 – Social Determinants of Health
- Watch the Social Determinants of Health video.
- Activity 3: Students write brief responses to the questions on the Social Determinants of Health video.
Module 4 – Community Selection Process
- Watch the Community Selection Process video to become familiar with the process our teams use to identify new partner communities and how the Rapid Needs Assessment (RNA) data is collected.
- Quiz 4 – Community Selection Process video.
- Activity 4 – Students analyze Rapid Needs Assessment data from three different communities in Honduras and complete the assignment.
Module 5 – Community Health Workers (CHWs) Watch the Community Health Worker/Entrepreneur Program video to learn about how they are a resource to support primary healthcare in the remote communities of Honduras .
- Activity 5 – Investigate information about the CHW roles in Tanzania and USA , then compare and contrast the results you got with the CHW program in Honduras.
Module 6 – Infectious and Chronic Diseases
- Watch the Infectious Disease video.
- Activity 6 – Students are assigned one infectious disease and complete the brief research assignment.
- Watch the Chronic Diseases video.
- Activity 7 – Students are assigned one chronic disease and complete the brief research assignment.
- Quiz 5 – chronic and infectious disease
- Activity 8 – Students continue to review the Spanish Medical Vocabulary and Phrasebook in preparation for the clinic module video.
Activity 9: Working on Educational Materials to be used by CHWs in Honduras.
- Students will create a 10 min recorded class about a medical condition assigned to them
- Students will include information about
- The description of the medical condition such as signs, symptoms, routes of transmission, prevention or what to do to have a better quality of life
- Treatments (western medication used)
- The video can be recorded in Spanish or add subtitles in Spanish
- Please include: visuals aids, music, short skits to make understanding easier
- This video will be used to train CHWS on the selected topic
Module 7 – Pharmacology and Traditional Medicine
- Watch the Commonly Prescribed Medications video.
- Activity 10: Students get an assigned medication and complete a brief research assignment.
- Watch the Traditional Medicine video.
- QUIZ 7 Pharmacology and Traditional Medicine
Module 8 – Medical consultation
- Watch the video about the principles of medical consultation.
- Watch the video on How to conduct an effective medical consultation.
- Quiz 8 Medical Consultation.
Module 9 – A medical consultation in a rural clinic and the social determinants of health
- Students watch a rural clinic video
- Activity 12: answer the following questions:
- List some of the social determinants of health and the consequences on the health of the community members
- After watching the first medical case, think about a piece of advice you will give to the patient to avoid being sick again or to have a better quality of life
- After watching the dental station, write how can this patient avoid getting an extraction again and what advice will you give him/her to improve her oral condition.
Module 10 – Monitoring and Evaluation, final Reflection and evaluation of the program
- Watch the two Monitoring and Evaluation videos to learn how to monitor health trends
- Activity 13: Students identify health risks in a Honduran community.
- Students reflect on the program
- Students submit their videos