INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION FOR HOME CARE EDUCATION .1. CREATING THE PARTNERSHIP

This two-part series describes the collaborative summer home care nurs ing program for Korean nurses conducted by the Frances Payne Bolton Sc hool of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, in co operation with the College of Nursing of Yonsei University, Seoul, Kor ea. Part I focuses on the development of the collaboration, and part I I focuses on the content of the three-week summer home care program an d describes related issues and problems as well as suggests solutions. The series concludes with the findings on the program from the postpr ogram evaluations of students, preceptors, and patients. The collabora tive educational program was developed to give Korean home care nurses an opportunity to gain clinical experience in home care nursing in th e United States so that they could learn how to deliver better-quality home care for patients and their informal caregivers. Therefore, the program focused on practice-oriented lectures and clinical experiences . Copyright (C) 1997 by W.B. Saunders Company.