Introduction: This study explored how global health service learning supported nursing student engagement in the process of cultural humility and how it shaped student understanding of themselves and their ability to develop supportive intercultural relationships. Methods: Written reflections were collected from eight second-year students while on a 9-day practicum in a low-resource Caribbean country. Six students participated in posttrip interviews. Thematic analysis was used to illuminate the students’ lived experience. Results: Four student themes emerged: (1) overcoming challenges, (2) opening our eyes, (3) seeing difference as a strength, and (4) learning with and from each other. While participants were inherently ethnocentric, the process of cultural humility curbed their sense of superiority and enabled the development of supportive intercultural relationships with their hosts. Discussion: This global health service learning was an effective strategy to enhance student nurses’ learning about themselves and intercultural relationships and to develop the attributes of cultural humility.

Background: This study explored the impact of virtual asynchronous debriefing after a virtual simulation game on nursing students' perceived anxiety and self-confidence for engaging in clinical decision-making (CDM). Method: An experimental design compared virtual asynchronous debriefing with traditional face-toface debriefing. Results: Virtual asynchronous debriefing resulted in increased self-confidence and reduced anxiety for CDM related to gathering data, seeing the big picture and knowing and acting. Asynchronous debriefing was comparable with face-to-face debriefing, and resulted in a significantly greater reduction of anxiety in the CDM dimension of data gathering. Conclusions: Asynchronous debriefing is a reliable alternative to face-to-face debriefing.

This study suggests that nursing students acquired the necessary knowledge and skills for safe vaccination administration through the combination of simulated practice and participating in an actual public health vaccination clinic.

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