Arizona State University College of Nursing Hosts Guests from Vietnam Nursing School

The Arizona State University (ASU) College of Nursing and Health Innovation recently welcomed international guests from the nursing department at University of Medicine and Pharmacy (UMP) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to learn about healthcare education in the US and ASU’s innovative teaching methods.

Visitors from UMP included the head of the nursing department and a few professors who spent a day touring ASU’s facilities, meeting faculty, and learning about their unique nursing program offerings. ASU Dean of Nursing Teri Pipe took the visiting group on a tour of the Downtown Phoenix campus, allowing them to explore their state-of-the-art simulation and learning resources lab, and observe students in their learning environment from a debrief room to watch their evidence-based curriculum in action.

Tran Thuy Khanh Linh, dean of the UMP nursing department, tells ASUNow.edu, “Vietnam is a developing country so we need to expand and improve a lot in nursing and we would like to see the health-care system in Vietnam evolve so that nursing is an important member in the health care systems. These observations and this trip is very helpful for us so that we can learn from ASU and we hope that we can implement part of it.”

The ASU College of Nursing faculty have been working with UMP nursing faculty in Ho Chi Minh City for almost 10 years, spending time on their campus in Vietnam to help their faculty grow and develop their program. Both schools are exploring new opportunities for developing a longer term relationship, feeling that both institutions have a lot to be learned from each other. UMP is particularly interested in learning how others are meeting the challenges of the quickly evolving healthcare industry.