Preparing for your Nursing/Midwifery Elective Overseas
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How can HealthServe and CSNM Help You?
This booklet has been prepared by HealthServe, the overseas mission ministry of Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) in conjunction with Christian Student Nurses and Midwives (CSNM), in order to assist you in preparing for an overseas nursing elective.
We cannot organise your elective for you and neither CMF nor CSNM are sending agencies for mission to less developed countries (LDCs) but we are both part of larger networks that can help you at almost every step of the way. Many of our members are involved in mission situations overseas. In addition, we also have extensive links with hospitals abroad; UK-based mission agencies and other organisations within the International Christian Medical and Dental Association (ICMDA) and Nurses Christian Fellowship International (NCFI) networks in other countries (see Appendices).
So if you have questions about why, where, when and how you should go, or about the practicalities of travel, immunisations, visas and life in another culture, this booklet will be a good place to start. If it doesn’t answer all your queries, contact HealthServe at healthserve@cmf.org.uk as a first port of call, and we can probably put you in touch with someone who can.
Planning a good nursing elective takes time (12-18 months), careful thought and thorough forward planning. The sooner you get on with it the better.
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© First Edition with appendices – August 2004
Christian Medical Fellowship, London.
Christian Student Nurses & Midwives, Leicester
Credits:
This booklet was originally written by Sally Foster, CSNM’s former Staff Worker, and has been updated and expanded by Steven Fouch, CMF’s Allied Professions Secretary.
Any corrections, suggestions or comments please forward to healthserve@cmf.org.uk
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of CMF.
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DISCLAIMER
CMF cannot be held responsible for the information contained in this booklet. Students will have to confirm the information with the individual institutions and missions agencies including the conditions for undertaking electives and the precautions advised to reduce health and transport risks.
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