Education
You’ll teach people about proper health and dental care, hygiene, and disease prevention.
Guidance
Along with physical care, you’ll provide spiritual reassurance to your patients and people in the community.
Maintenance
Your work will often continue when you return home, including raising awareness and money for medical supplies, schools and facilities for the communities you’ve worked in.
Treatment
You’ll provide a wide variety of direct patient care, from giving vaccinations to treating illnesses and dressing wounds.
- Missionary hospitals and clinics
- Community centers
- Churches
- Schools
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Get an Associate’s Degree in Nursing (ADN) or Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
Take elective courses in international nursing and foreign languages.
02
Pass the NCLEX-RN and work as a Registered Nurse.
03
There isn’t a specific Missionary Nurse certification.
It will be helpful if you hold the Basic Life Support Certification from the American Heart Association or Red Cross.
04
You’re ready to work as a Missionary Nurse.
Following the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, the TOMODACHI J&J Disaster Nursing Training Program has worked to support the reconstruction of affected areas by providing educational programs for Japanese nursing students interested in further developing their skills in disaster medicine. Launched in 2015, the program has successfully provided learning opportunities for a total of 28 nursing students and is scheduled to continue through the year 2020.2018-08-14T14:31:52Z
As the first nurse to be selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and The Lemelson Foundation as an AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador, Rachel Walker, PhD, RN, is intimately familiar with nurse-driven innovation and the significant impact it has on healthcare. Dr. Walker is a nurse inventor, former rural emergency medical and disaster relief worker, assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst College of Nursing, and advocate for nurses as leaders in healthcare innovation and improvement.2018-07-23T15:19:39Z
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