Sustainable Global Health Outreach in Haiti: Service Learning for Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Students

• Primary care student nurse practitioner global health experiences can serve as a transformational teaching-learning resource.
• Sustainability is critical to ensuring any global health program's success for patients and communities.
• We discuss the experience of nurse practitioner students and their faculty preceptors in partnership with a nongovernment organization in providing short-term study practice abroad immersion experiences in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
• The team has provided education, support, and various treatments to patients and families in a resource-limited environment.
• The involvement of student nurse practitioners in global service learning is a way to provide much needed health services to culturally diverse populations in resource-challenged environments.

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 States–based 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.