Brazil

Dr. Lynda Wilson was a visiting professor in Brazil at the Schools of Nursing University of Sao Paulo in Ribeirao Preto (April 1-14, 2007) and the University of Sao Paulo in Sao Paulo (April 15-17, 2007). While in Ribeirao Preto, Dr. Wilson met with students and faculty at the nursing school and at the WHO/PAHO Nursing Collaborating Center to provide consultation on their research and publication activities. She also co-taught a 4-credit graduate course on Dissemination of Nursing Research to MSN and PhD students, with Dr. Maria Helena Caliri. While in Sao Paulo, Dr. Wilson met with faculty in the school of nursing who are working on a Pan American Child Health Nursing Network to promote dissemination of information regarding the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness program to nursing schools throughout Latin America. She also discussed opportunities for collaboration between the schools of nursing at the University of Sao Paulo and UAB. In January 2008, 7 nursing faculty and students from the University of Sao Paulo in Sao Paulo and in Ribeirao Preto participated in the International Nursing Leadership Institute. Each of these nurse is continuing to work in collaboration with UASON faculty on projects designed to enhance family or child health nursing in Brazil. One of these faculty (Dr. Rosalina A Partezani Rodrigues) spent the month of February 2008 working as a visiting scholar with UASON faculty Dr. Yvonne Eaves, and is collaborating with Dr. Eaves and with a nursing professor from Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Dr. Alba Lucero Lopez Diaz) to develop a study in Brazil, Colombia, and Alabama of elderly patients who have suffered a stroke, and their caregivers.