INTERNATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM WITH DAYTOP

초록

Objective: The Objective of this program was to train nurses, nursing students and other health care providers to be Global Health Leadership Providers (G-HeLP) in the field of addiction. Program Design: Practicing health care providers (i.e., nurses, nursing students, social workers, and psychologists) who were interested in the recovery of addicts were recruited annually. The participants were trained for six weeks or two months in the setting using the therapeutic community model (self-help learning model) at DAYTOP in New York. This program was monitored and supervised by the director of the INHA Alcohol and Drug Counseling Research Center since 2001 with supports from Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare and Inha University. This program changed its title in 2008 from the DAYTOP Therapeutic Community Training to Global Health Leader project to DAYTOP (G-HeLP-DAYTOP). Outcome: A total of 156 health care providers were completed the training; 72 were nurses and nursing students and the rest were non-nursing. Nurses and nursing students showed more interested in the program compared to other health care providers. Especially nursing students who completed the program expressed interest in expanding their training experience globally to implement their acquired knowledge in other counties upon graduation. Discussion: This program may help prepare nurses and nursing students to be global health care leaders in the future. The program needs to obtain measurable outcomes of the participants’ learning experience systematically in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the program.