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The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing and the Al-Zaytoonah Private University (AZPU) of Jordan, on Sept. 20, established an affiliation to advance nursing education in Jordan and the Arab region.

During a signing ceremony at the UNMC campus in Omaha, the UNMC College of Nursing formalized a three-year contract affiliation with AZPU that will include sharing traditional and online nursing education and clinical curriculum, and provide faculty training in integrating online courses into traditional curriculum. The college currently provides courses to faculty at Erebouni College in Armenia, which was the first pilot site for the college\u2019s strategy of moving the \u2018global classroom\u2019 model into other regions of the world, including the Arab world, India and China.

Harold M. Maurer, M.D., UNMC chancellor, welcomed the Jordanian delegation to UNMC and Nebraska. \u201cOur goal at UNMC is to be a world-class academic health science center. This relationship we\u2019re developing with the university is a wonderful example of extending the expertise we have in nursing, particularly in distance education programs. We\u2019re excited about the exchanges and possibilities with your university,\u201d Dr. Maurer said.

\u201cWe are really looking forward to a close working relationship with you and your faculty. UNMC also will benefit from your expertise. We\u2019re very grateful you have come here to visit us,\u201d Dr. Maurer said.

\u201cThe visit here is very important. We are looking to improve the quality of our nursing programs,\u201d said Naser Saleh, Ph.D., president, Al-Zaytoonah Private University, which is located just south of Amman, Jordan. \u201cWe want to expose our students to outstanding universities so they can have a better chance of getting a job. We feel we\u2019ve done our job when they get the best education and they\u2019re serving the community.

\u201dThis is also one way we connect with other universities,\u201d said Dr. Saleh, who said like the United States, all governments are struggling with the nursing shortage. He said there are eight colleges of nursing in Jordan.

Virginia Tilden, D.N.Sc., dean of the UNMC College of Nursing, said the college will share its model of online nursing education to help the university become a leader for Arabic nursing education. \u201cThe goal is to support the university in becoming a hub for nursing education throughout the Arab world,\u201d Dr. Tilden said.

The impetus for the alliance originated with discussions between Dr. Ryan and Majeda El-Banna, Ph.D., a May 2004 graduate of the UNMC College of Nursing doctoral program.

\u201cWe can help them deliver specialty areas in nursing such as cancer, critical care and community nursing, where currently there is very little. We also hope this partnership will ultimately benefit Iraqi nurses,\u201d said Sheila A. Ryan, Ph.D., Charlotte Peck Lienemann & Alumni Distinguished Chair, UNMC College of Nursing, and director of International Nursing Education Programs.

\u201cJordan is advanced economically and politically respected throughout Arab countries. Dr. El-Banna and I discussed creating a center in Jordan for UNMC\u2019s nursing educational outreach programs,\u201d Dr. Ryan said.

Officials say the advantages of the partnership include raising the quality of nursing education, which ultimately improves patient care, and addressing nursing shortages in Jordan and the Arab region.
Dr. Ryan said the UNMC College of Nursing, which has more than 75 online nursing courses, has students enrolled in master\u2019s and doctoral degrees across the country.

\u201cThis partnership is an extension of the excellence of this faculty, which has developed and delivered distance education programs here for the last 20 years,\u201d Dr. Ryan said. \u201cWe are maximizing that investment globally.\u201d

One of the first things the partnership will support is the creation of a learning resource center at AZPU. The center will be equipped with computer and other technology that allow students to learn and practice nursing skills independently. The center also will integrate online courses, audio visual resources, and address improvements in clinical instruction and evaluation.

\u201cRather than watch the instructor demonstrate a task once, then expect the student to perform the task, we will use a learning approach that reinforces practice using sophisticated tools in a simulated environment,\u201d Dr. Ryan said. \u201cIt will help their faculty move beyond the \u2018watch me, then do it\u2019 model.\u201d

The collaboration affiliation also will include consulting and assistance with accreditation processes, faculty and student exchanges, planning regional and global nursing continuing education programs, research collaboration and seeking global funding resources to support selected shared programs. UNMC also will assist AZPU faculty interested in pursuing UNMC\u2019s online master\u2019s and doctoral programs.

Dr. El-Banna said while pursuing her doctoral nursing degree at the college, she was impressed by the academic and technological educational tools. \u201cI was impressed with what I saw at UNMC,\u201d Dr. El-Banna said. \u201cI wanted to have the same things in my country that you have here.\u201d

Established in 1993, AZPU is located near Amman, the capital of Jordan, and encompasses 18 specialty with faculty in six key programs — economics and administrative sciences, science and information technology, arts, pharmacy, nursing and law.

Of the nearly 6,000, mostly Jordanian, students enrolled at the university, about 1,100 are nursing students pursuing bachelor\u2019s degrees in nursing. Half are men. Non-Jordanian students come from 14 Arab countries. Arabic is the official language of instruction, although English is used in a number of courses offered by faculty.

AZPU officials said Jordanian and others in the region choose nursing for many of the same reasons Americans do, including the ability to help people and ample job opportunities.

Dr. Ryan said she and others hope the nursing model will expand into other disciplines of health education.

\u201cUNMC wants to be known as world-class. The College of Nursing wants to be in the top 10. One way is to be visible in the world,\u201d Dr. Ryan said. \u201cOur online nursing programs are light-years ahead of other programs, even among the top 15 schools of nursing in the country.\u201d

The UNMC College of Nursing leads the way at UNMC in the use of innovative technology to deliver instruction to students at a distance, including throughout Nebraska, regionally, nationally and internationally. About half of the college\u2019s students are enrolled in distance education programs. Distance education programs, which were born from the need to serve rural Nebraskans, now serve as a key instrument in the effort to resolve the nursing shortage.
College officials say in the past five years, many “brick and mortar” classrooms have been replaced by “virtual” classrooms. At UNMC, College of Nursing, faculty members were the first to adapt their instruction to the medium of interactive television more than 25 years ago.

In the past nine years, the college has obtained six multi-year grants yielding more than $8.5 million in federal training grants to fund their efforts to extend programs to students not able to attend class at one of its four divisions.

AZPU representatives at the signing included: Naser Saleh, Ph.D., Iyad Al-Qirem, member of the board of trustees, Galeb Saleh, Ph.D., dean of economics and business administration; and Dr. El-Banna. During the three-day stay, the delegation toured hospital areas, visited with faculty and were guests at various social functions.
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