Guatemala

Dr. Lynda Wilson has been working with various projects in Guatemala since 1995. She has led five different study-abroad courses to Guatemala (three while on faculty at UAB, and two while a faculty member at the Capstone College of Nursing in Tuscaloosa). Many of Dr. Wilson's Guatemala projects have been coordinated through the Alabama-Guatemala Partners organization, a partnership within the larger international organization called Partners of the Americas (POA). POA was established by President John Kennedy in the 1960s as a component of his Alliance for Progress program, and was designed to promote people-to-people partnerships between the United States and Latin America/Carribean countries. For more information on POA go to Partners of the Americas. For more information please click on Alabama-Guatemala Partners.

Dr. Wilson has also consulted with faculty in the School of Nursing at San Carlos University in Guatemala City. In 2004, Dr. Wilson supervised a UAB School of Nursing Honors’ Students, Alison Hernandez, who interviewed 17 Guatemalan nursing faculty to identify their perceptions about nursing research. Ms. Hernandez and Dr. Wilson subsequently co-authored a publication with one of the Guatemalan nursing faculty, O. N. M. Padilla. You can link to this article by going to the following site: Hernández, Al. R., Padilla, O. N. M., & Harrison, L. L. (2006). Perspectivas Sobre la Investigación en Enfermería en Guatemala. Enfermería Globa, Volume 8 (May). You can link to this article by going to the following site: www.um.es/eglobal/8/08c04.html.