FRIENDS OF THE
CHILDREN OF HAITI offers continuing education contact hours to registered nurses and Emergency Medical Technicians who participate in FOTCOH medical missions and successfully meet the program requirements. Continuing Education participants will get a "hands on" intercultural health care experience in a third world country. This educational activity will help participants to understand health care in a vulnerable population.
Participants can expect to (but or not limited to):
- Identify how socioeconomic & cultural variables influence health care in a developing world
- Examine Haitian patients
- Identify common illnesses
- Create a plan of care with appropriate treatment options
Registered nurses and nursing students will receive 101 contact hours provided by OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. OSF Saint Francis Medical Center is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Illinois Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission Accreditation. The presenters/content specialists and planners of this nursing education activity do not have any conflict of interest or relationships with sources of commercial support and/or corporations whose products or services are related to pertinent therapeutic areas.
Emergency Medical Technicians will receive 54 hours of continuing education contact hours through the Peoria Area EMS System and the Illinois Department of Public Health.
In addition, Friends of the Children of Haiti offers a Resident clinical rotation that is sponsored by University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria which is affiliated with OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. Participants include Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Residents at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. This collaboration with Friends of the Children of Haiti provides a community clinic rotation that provides exposure to illness, disease, injury and malnutrition in a third world country.