PRODUCTIVE INTERNATIONAL FACULTY EXCHANGE - ONE COLUMBIA-UNIVERSITY TO GOTHENBURG-UNIVERSITY EXAMPLE

This article describes the preparation, implementation and outcomes of a visiting professor exchange experience from the United Stales to Sw eden, and provides recommendations for other faculty who may be asked to enact a similar international role. The major goals of the visit we re to coalesce the themes of the earlier administrative contacts into specific projects, and to model a scholarly faculty role consistent wi th the Columbia University School of Nursing mission as a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for International Nursing Developme nt. Professional nursing activities during the exchange visit were com prised of three main categories: teaching, consultation, and socializa tion. Strategies are described that enhanced the bilingual lectures fo r the Swedish students. The relationships that developed from consulti ng at the college and an site at various clinical locations culminated in the mutual identification of collaborative research projects and p lans far the cross-cultural adaptation of the author's parent educatio n model. Recommendations are made concerning the range of philosophica l, institutional, professional and personal resources needed for inter national exchanges.