BY FACULTY FOR FACULTY Sustainable Global Health Outreach in Haiti: Service Learning for Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Students Sharon K. Byrne, DrNP, APN, Shonta D. Collins, MSN, FNP-C, and Melissa Martelly, MA, RN ABSTRACT Sustainable academic partnerships that focus on capacity building can improve health outcomes of patients in resource-challenged international settings. The involvement of primary care nurse practitioner students and faculty in service learning can also foster cultural competency and cultural humility. This article describes program development, roles, and outcomes of 3 outreach ventures between the College of Nursing and Health Professions and a United Statesebased nongovernment organization at 5 different sites in Haiti. Lessons learned in conducting global health field work at the advanced practice nursing student level both inclusively and as part of an interprofessional team are shared. Keywords: cultural competency, cultural humility, global health, Haiti, nurse practitioner service learning, sustainability Ó 2014 Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved. T he engagement of scholarship and the pro- motion of knowledge and advanced practice skills of students through sustainable primary care nurse practitioner (NP) learning experiences can serve as a transformational teaching-learning resource. Study abroad programs and global service learning have been used as an adjunct to didactic and traditional clinical course work within undergraduate academic settings for the past 2 decades. 1-4 These types of experiences for NP students at the master’s and post- master’s level have not been as common. The immersion of advanced practice nursing students in global health can be used as a strategy to enhance clinical education, cultural competency, and cultural humility. Partnership with a nongovernment organization (NGO) and other health profession students and providers can also support interprofessional education efforts. Most importantly, this type of program can be an important resource in meeting the health needs of underserved populations. The area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is an international site that can benefit from a sustainable academic-NGO partnership related to health care education and service delivery. The individuals, residing in tent cities and surrounding communes since the 2010 earthquake, still encounter health conditions related to poor living conditions and lack of access to care. In addition to embarking on such a partnership, sustainability is critical to ensuring any global health program’s success for patients and communities. Meeting the reciprocal needs of all stakeholders involved in such outreach (ie, institutions of higher learning, faculty and students, NGOs, host countries, and, most importantly, the patients or communities served) must be ensured for such experiential service learning to be capacity building and sustainable without harm for all parties. The stakeholders include not only students/faculty and volunteer members of the NGO but also, more importantly, Haitian patients and nonprofessional health care advocates. This article discusses the experience of NP stu- dents and their faculty preceptors in partnership with an NGO and other health careerelated disciplines in providing ongoing short-term study-practice abroad immersion experiences in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The service learning activity, while addressing the primary care needs of patients, also meets many of the nursing education competencies found in Health Professional Education. 5 The competencies include the Institute of www.npjournal.org The Journal for Nurse Practitioners - JNP e33