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Background: A Canadian nursing student-led knowledge dissemination project on health promotion for social development was implemented with local professionals and communities in Brazil. %26lt;br%26gt;Objectives: (a) to identify how student-interns contrasted Canadian and Brazilian cultural and social realities within a primary healthcare context from a social development perspective; (b) to examine how philosophical underpinnings, including social critical theory and notions of social justice, guided student-interns in acknowledging inequalities in primary healthcare in Brazil; and (c) to participate in the debate on the contribution of Canadian nursing students to the global movement for social development. %26lt;br%26gt;Design and Setting: A qualitative appraisal of short-term outcomes of an international internship in the cities of Birigui %26 Aracatuba (Sao Paulo-Brazil). Participants: Four Canadian fourth-year undergraduate nursing students enrolled in a metropolitan university program. %26lt;br%26gt;Methods: Recruitment was through an email invitation to the student-interns, who accepted, and signed informed consent forms. Their participation was unpaid and voluntary. One-time individual interviews were conducted at the end of their internships. Transcriptions of the audio-recorded interviews were coded using the qualitative software program ATLAS ti 6.0. The findings were analyzed using thematic analysis. %26lt;br%26gt;Results: Student-interns%26apos; learning unfolded from making associations among concepts, new ideas, and their previous experiences, leading to a personal transformation through which they established new conceptual and personal connections. The two main themes revealed by the thematic analysis were dichotomizing realities, that is, acknowledging the existence of %26quot;two sides of each situation,%26quot; and discovering an unexpected reciprocity between global and urban health. Furthermore, the student-interns achieved personal and professional empowerment. %26lt;br%26gt;Conclusions: The knowledge gained from the international experience helped the student-interns learn how to collaborate with Brazilian society%26apos;s sectors to improve the social conditions of a %26quot;marginalized population%26quot;. Student-interns became aware of their inner power to promote change by making invisible inequity visible in their own terms.
- 出版日期2013-7
