Nursing Electives Abroad in Africa and Asia
Each of our Nursing Electives Abroad in Africa
(Student nurse elective placements)
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Details of our Nursing Electives Overseas in Africa
Nursing Electives Ghana
Location: western Accra
Weeks: 2 - 12
Code: Gh-Nu-El
Nursing Elective Placements Abroad Description:
Carry out your nursing electives abroad in either a general hospital in western Accra, or at a main teaching hospital* in the city, depending on your university’s expectation. Your program is fully supervised in the hospitals, and managed by a local community medical organisation that was founded and operated by qualified nurses dedicated to providing Ghaniana with access to good medical intreventions.
The following specialisms are offered: Disease Control; Family Planning; Maternal Care; Mental Health; Public Health;** Outpatients; Dispensary; and Hospital Admin, and Health Information Technology, which non-medical staff may volunteer for.
Impact: this nursing elective abroad in Ghana provides encouraging support to the medical profession, and increased opportunities for patients in a pay for and insurance system
When sufficient people join the GAFV programs, our partners arrange well attended village outreaches, free for local people.
Hospitals appreciate your gifts of medical supplies such as gloves, syringes, bandages etc.
*Electives at the Teaching Hospital incur an additional fee of $250 for the placement.
Nursing Electives Nepal
Location: Kathmandu
Weeks: 2 - 12
Code: Ne-Nu-El
Nursing Elective Abroad Description:
These nursing electives abroad take place in the Grande International Hospital, Kathmandu, a private hospital that caters for each major specialism.
It is to this hospital that the foreign climbers, and trekkers are evacuated to, or brought to for treatment should anything befall them when in the Nepalese Himalayas.
Nursing Electives Kenya
Location: Various
Weeks: 2 - 12
Code: Ke-Nu-El
Nursing Elective Description:
Carry out your nursing electives abroad in one of a number of the settings we offer in Kenya.
Placements include those at teaching hospitals, satellite hospitals, and clinics, across the private and government sectors.
These settings are located across the southern part of the country, south to Lake Victoria, and west to the Kakamega forest reserve.
Given the range of choices in this dream tourist destination, please connect with us to ask questions and for more details
Nursing Electives Uganda
Location: Mbarara, SW Uganda
Weeks: 2 - 12
Code: Ug-Nu-El
Nursing Elective Abroad Description:
Mbarara is in SW Uganda, close to the home of the pygmies, the sleeping lions, and the Mountain Gorillas, and so Uganda has plenty to see and do when you are not at the hospital.
Our medical partners in Mbarara work in community mental health, and welcome those here on our nursing electives abroad projects with them. The electives are offered in the linked teaching hospital they work alongside.
You will be fully supported throughout your stay.
Currently we offer nursing elective opportunities in:
Maternity / Midwifery
Pediatrics
Surgical
Joining Nursing Electives in Developing Countries
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), estimated that 230,000 new nurses graduated in the US in 2019, and the UK’s Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) reported that 24,000 nursing and midwifery students graduated in the same year.
These figures may seem high, but not when set against the global shortage of healthcare professionals, projected to rise to 18m by 2030. Additionally, the medical workforce is migrating, whether that be due to push factors from low income to high income countries, or from pull factors from the UK to Australia, a process hitting the low-income countries particularly hard.
Completing a nursing elective overseas offers several advantages to the people you go to work alongside, as well as for your own personal and professional development. Undertaking your elective in a low income and low resourced country provides a platform upon which you can build and develop a broader understanding of healthcare systems, and gain exposure to a wider range of medical conditions, which grow competence, adaptability, and cultural awareness, all invaluable skills in our increasingly interconnected world.
These skills will support you at the start of your career as you seek your first post, as well as open up wider opportunities for you in the future when you may consider either relocating overseas, or working with global healthcare providers such as the Red Cross, or MSF.
Our nursing electives opportunities are in a range of settings in Kenya, Uganda, and Ghana, each of which will welcome your support as well as your payments to them through what you pay
Our partners in these countries, all qualified professionals, could likewise emigrate, but when we speak with them they remain in their countries and dedicate their lives to support the people they deliver health care to.
You can be assured of a high level of support for yourself, a very warm and glad welcome from our partners, and personal fulfilment as you deliver a positive impact on healthcare and in the lives of both patients and local practitioners.
