Global Service-Learning in Nursing

Tamara H. McKinnon, MSN, RN
Tamara H. McKinnon, MSN, RN is a lecturer in community health and research at the Valley Foundation School of Nursing at San Jose State University in California, and is a student in the DNP program at Case Western Reserve University. Ms. McKinnon began her international work prior to completing her BSN and continues her involvement to this day. She has had extensive international experience, including volunteering with Los Ninos in Tijuana, Mexico, and Project Concern International in the West Indies. She is currently collaborating with a community partner to develop a service-learning program in the West Indies, and she has led study abroad groups to Ireland since 2004. Ms. McKinnon was names Global Studies Fellow at SJSU and was the Chair of Sigma Theta Tau Internationals Task Force on International Service-Learning.

In 2008, Ms. McKinnon received the SJSU Provost Award for Excellence in Community Service for her work in developing and sustaining nurse-managed health centers in low-resource communities. She has served on the boards of Salud Para La Gente, a Rural Health Clinic that serves primarily migrant workers, in Watsonsville, CA and the Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) of Santa Cruz County. She worked with the Public Health Institute, a nonprofit organization in California, to develop train-the-trainer programs for the Pacific Island region. Ms. McKinnon's specialty areas include migrant health, community health leadership, and program development.

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, FNAP
Dr. Fitzpatrick is Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing at the France Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), in Cleveland, Ohio. She is also an adjunct professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. Dr. Fitzpatrick holds a BSN from Georgetown University, an MS in psychiatric-mental health nursing from the Ohio State University, a PhD in nursing from New York University, and an MBA from CWRU. In 1990, she received an honorary doctorate from Georgetown University.

Dr. Fitzpartick is widely published in nursing and health care, with over 300 publications. She was co-editor of the Annual Review of Nursing Research series, vols. 1-26, and she is editor of three per-reviewed journals. She has received the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 18 times.