Source: UF College of Nursing
Like the season itself, spring collaborations were in full bloom at the UF College of Nursing, thanks to the latest cohort of visitors from Brazil during InteRNational Gator Nursing Week.
During a week of knowledge sharing about advanced nursing education, over 15 nursing faculty from seven Brazilian universities across the country learned how the nurse practitioner role, held by clinicians who possess a Doctor of Nursing Practice, fits into the American health care system, as well as how this clinical role could be implemented abroad.
According to associate professor and Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement, Jeanne-Marie Stacciarini, PhD, RN, FAAN, who played a key role in beginning this collaboration and is also of Brazilian descent, this partnership is especially important as the nurse practitioner is not officially recognized in Brazil. Although the nurse practitioner role does not yet have a permanent place in Brazilian health care Associate Dean For Academic Affairs-Graduate Clinical Education Rene Love, PhD, DNP, PMHNP-BC, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN, added that this visit was another opportunity for Brazilian faculty and leaders to take insights from the state’s preeminent school of nursing back to help transform the profession at home.
“These faculty are incredibly grateful for the work that is being done here to support nurse practitioner education in Brazil,” Stacciarini said. “I am so proud to be part of this commitment to education in the global sphere.”