Public & Global Health
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The Power of Touch - Global & Population Health Nursing: India
This spring, Professors Carly Peterson and Daphne Thomas led a group of 14 nursing students to Rishikesh, India as part of the college's worldwide Global & Population Health Nursing Clinical Practicum effort. They spent time working with professionals in the clinics and serving those living in informal housing communities.
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Spiritual Care in a Multicultural Setting - Global & Population Health Nursing: United Kingdom
This summer, BYU College of Nursing carried out the very first Global and Population Health Nursing Clinical Practicum in the United Kingdom. Professor Denise Cummins and Dr. Shelly Reed led 11 students as they experienced healthcare in the cities of Preston and Chester.
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Learning About Cultures Close to Home - Global & Population Health Nursing: Utah
Though close to home compared to other Global & Population Health Nursing projects, Global Health Utah gave students a cultural experience that was just as unique and impactful as anywhere else on the planet.
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Learning Nursing in the Faith-Filled Spanish Culture - Global & Population Health Nursing: Spain
Looking back on what he experienced during the Global & Population Health Nursing Clinical Practicum in Spain, there was one special cultural detail that stuck out to fifth-BYU nursing student Justin Kimball: the country’s deep, prevalent Christian roots.
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Unity Through Faith on the Tongan Islands - Global & Population Health Nursing: Tonga
Ten BYU College of Nursing students, accompanied by professors Melanie Livingston and Sarah Davis, had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to practice nursing skills in Tonga and better understand what being part of a faith-filled community means.
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The Intersection of Faith, Modern Medicine, and Ancestral Culture - Global & Population Health Nursing: Ecuador
BYU College of Nursing has been going to Ecuador for Global & Population Health Nursing Clinical Practicum for almost 20 years. Professors Scott Summers, Jennifer Rigby, and Hiromi Tobe made the trip with 13 students this spring.
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Faith to Overcome Scarcity - Global & Population Health Nursing: Zambia
Zambia Global & Population Health Practicum
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Healthcare Rooted in Religion - Global & Population Health Nursing: Taiwan
In Taiwan, healthcare practices have deep ties to the region’s heavy Buddhist influence. BYU professors Ryan Rasmussen and Stacie Hunsaker accompanied 20 nursing students to the country, where they observed these cultural differences in medicine firsthand and learned to love the culture.
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Loving Through the Language Barrier - Global & Population Health Nursing: Czechia
Czechia Global & Population Health Practicum 2025
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No Man Left Behind: BYU College of Nursing's Exemplary Service to Veterans
The Global and Population Health Veterans Practicum gives nursing students an invaluable opportunity to immerse themselves in veteran culture and become equipped to understand and support a population to which we owe so much.
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BYU Nursing Students & Alumni Unite to Prepare Public & Global Health Kits
BYU College of Nursing students, faculty, and alumni gathered to assemble humanitarian kits.
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Assessing Brick Workers' Respiratory Health in Nepal: A Groundbreaking Effort by BYU College of Nursing
Teams from several colleges at BYU traveled to Nepal to observe brick workers there, and data continues to be gathered to assess the state of their respiratory health.
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Public and Global Health Nursing
To fulfill the clinical practicum for the public and global health nursing course, students in their third or fourth semester participate in one of ten public and global health sites. This experience provides a unique opportunity to put nursing skills into practice while being immersed in a different culture and healthcare system.
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Nursing Students Learn In Ghanaian Healthcare Settings
To fulfill the clinical practicum for the public and global health nursing course, students in their third or fourth semester participate in one of ten sites. This experience provides a unique opportunity to put nursing skills into practice while being immersed in a different culture and healthcare system.
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Students Gain Greater Understanding from Serving Local Vulnerable Populations
Although many nursing students traveled internationally for their public and global health nursing course clinical practicum, a few stayed in Utah to work with vulnerable populations within the community, especially those from low socioeconomic backgrounds.
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Learning the Importance of Healing in Ecuador
This past spring, BYU nursing students had the opportunity to spend three weeks learning and practicing the Healer's art in Ecuador. In addition, they experienced healthcare in and out of the hospital setting: volunteering in the community, shadowing nurses, and learning about traditional healing.
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Students Practice the Healer's Art in Poland
This past spring, a group of nursing students traveled to Finland and Poland for their public and global health nursing course clinical practicum. The students planned to spend five weeks working in hospitals to refine their nursing skills. However, their schedule changed as the trip grew closer. “While we were in Finland, the nurses were on strike,” nursing student Symbria Lewis explained. Despite these circumstances, the students gained clinical experience through performing pediatric assessments and serving the Finnish community in other ways.
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Students Expand Cultural Awareness in the Czech Republic
This past summer, 14 of BYU’s nursing students had the opportunity to experience a once-in-a-lifetime three-and-a-half week clinical practicum in the Czech Republic. They spent time in the cities of Prague, Pilsen, and Susice doing clinical and community service.
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