Study Abroad Gives
A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON NURSING Undergraduate students expand their horizons in Thailand, Tanzania and the United Kingdom. Sophia Laudenslayer chose to travel 8,000 miles from home to Tanzania with UC College of Nursing faculty and classmates to complete her community clinical requirement. In the end, she got much more than course credit. “Nursing is so much more, so much bigger than we think it is,” Laudenslayer says. “We get a lot of different hospital rotations in UC’s nursing program, which are great, but to be able to experience it in another country kind of breaks the barriers of what you think nursing really is.”
By: Laura Toerner
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Laudenslayer is among 54 Bachelor of Science in Nursing students who traveled abroad with the college
during the 2022–23 school year. Others spent one or two weeks in the U.K. and Thailand. Developed and delivered by faculty specially for UC’s nursing students, these trips deepen resilience, empathy and cultural responsiveness — skills critical for the next generation of nurses, tasked with providing more complex care and advancing health equity. The driver of these efforts, Kate York, PhD, FNP, RN, assistant professor and director of Global Health Nursing for the college, has worked since 2016 to create impactful learning experiences abroad by building partnerships with nursing instructors and institutions across the globe. Unlike mission trips,
