The University of Missouri - Columbia Sinclair School of Nursing is pleased to announce a FREE educational series of classes entitled "Preparing for Diversity: Medical Spanish and Nurse Role in North America"

The classes are held in preparation for the upcoming in Winter 2006 nursing course N3006: Cultural Expeditions in Nursing. The preparatory classes provide introductory lessons to medical Spanish, and an overview of nurse role in North America. Course activities may include networking with local partners and local ethnic populations, movies and presentations introducing participants to Mexican and Canadian cultures and health-care systems.

The series of classes is open to students and registered nurses and is held every Thursday from August 25 to December 8, 2005 and January 17 to May 5, 2006, from 4:00 to 6:00 PM in room S265 at the Sinclair School of Nursing. Copies of the textbook - Rios, Joanna & Fernández, Torres, José. (2001). Spanish for Family Practitioners. Chicago: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-658-00842-0 - are available through the MU Bookstore or at Amazon.
For more information, please contact Alice Kuehn at (573) 882-0232 or Jessica Mueller at (573) 884-9212.

The course Cultural Expeditions in Nursing, a part of the project Collaborative Learning Across Borders: Partnering Nursing Students, Faculty and Community, is a multi-dimensional program that provides opportunities for undergraduate students and registered nurses to:

• Explore the role of the nurse within each country's health-care system
• Grow in multicultural awareness and recognition of specific health care beliefs and values held by people from each country
• Participate in a cultural immersion experience