Abstract
Many Canadian nursing programs endorse clinical placements abroad. We critically examined the hidden curriculum embedded in clinical placements seeking to provide a ‘global’ experience. Using purposeful sampling, we interviewed a total of 18 participants, including eight faculty, eight students and two placement coordinators. Data were analyzed using initial and focused coding, supported by NVivo. After generating themes from the coded data, we adapted Hafferty’s (1998) framework to further analyze the theme of the hidden curriculum. The findings illuminate how policies sustained international experience as a privileged endeavour, with restricted access based on grades. Placements incorporated little evaluation of benefits for local communities. Few resources were allocated to students for such placements, as many students paid for their placement. The institutional terms ‘international and global experience’ denoted interactions with cultural “Others”. We recommend that nursing programs attend to hidden practices that sustain clinical placements abroad as prestigious, commodified experiences.
Funding source: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Award Identifier / Grant number: 430-2016-01082
Research funding: SSHRC (430-2016-01082).
Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.
Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Editorial
- A note of gratitude
- Research Articles
- Assessing baccalaureate nursing students’ knowledge and attitudes of social determinants of health after a health equity simulation
- Use of phenomenography in nursing education research
- A comparison of RN licensure test plans: the United States and China with implications for the Chinese nursing licensure exam
- From practical nurse to bachelor of nursing student: bridging the transition
- A caring model for nursing education
- Nurse and midwife educators’ experiences of translating teaching methodology knowledge into practice in Rwanda
- Nursing student-patient relationship – a 10-year comparison study in Finland
- An educational intervention to promote civility in nursing: a pilot study
- Self-compassion in undergraduate nursing: an integrative review
- Seeking transformation: how students in nursing view their academic writing context – a qualitative systematic review
- Assessing knowledge of genomic concepts among Canadian nursing students and faculty
- Nurse students’ attitudes toward the nursing profession after witnessing workplace violence
- The effectiveness of scenario-based learning to develop patient safety behavior in first year nursing students
- Impact of an extracurricular, student-led journal club on evidence-based practice among baccalaureate nursing students
- Nursing students’ engagement and experiences with virtual reality in an undergraduate bioscience course
- Concept-based curriculum: design and implementation strategies
- Assessing the impact of mentorship on nurses’ and midwives’ knowledge and self-efficacy in managing postpartum hemorrhage
- Teaching evidence-based nursing practice to student nurses in developing countries: strategies for novice nurse educators
- Nursing students’ perceptions of and experiences coping with stress in clinical practice
- Unpacking the hidden curriculum in nursing education: clinical placements abroad
- Facilitating and hindering experiences to the development of humanistic caring in the academic and clinical settings: an interpretive phenomenological study with nursing students and nurses
- Resilience in first and second semester baccalaureate nursing students
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- The potential for learning within hospital learning communities: the interplay between nursing practice and education to support research ability
- Embracing evidence-based nursing and informational literacy through an innovative undergraduate collaborative project
- The effect of linguistic modification on English as a second language (ESL) nursing student retention
- Perceived stress, physiological stress reactivity, and exit exam performance in a prelicensure Bachelor of Science nursing program
- A Comparative Analysis of Teaching and Evaluation Methods in Nurse Practitioner Education Programs in Australia, Canada, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands and USA
- Gett’n on the bus: evaluation of Sentinel City®3.0 virtual simulation in community/population health clinical placement
- Intentional learning: a student-centered pedagogy
- Journey to simulation program accreditation
- Effect of a rapid e-learning module and brief interprofessional simulation event on medical and nursing student collaborative attitudes and behaviors
- Using Participatory Action Research to Explore the Nursing Academic Work Environment
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- Students’ Self-assessed Competence Levels during Nursing Education Continuum – A Cross-sectional Survey
- Re-imaging Clinical Education: The Interdependence of the Self-Regulated Clinical Teacher and Nursing Student
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- A Description of the Characteristics and Behaviors of Master Teachers in Nursing