This skills lab activity enables students to experience intercultural care through an international clinical simulation—without traveling. Using realistic case scenarios, they take on roles within foreign healthcare systems and encounter cultural differences, language barriers, and diverse care practices. The aim is to enhance intercultural awareness, communication, and reflective skills. Through simulation, role play, and structured debriefing, students gain insight into working abroad and develop competencies for global healthcare environments.
Dr. María Galán Lominchar (RN, MSN, PhD) is a full-time professor at the San Juan de Dios School of Nursing and Physiotherapy, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid. She was International Coordinator from 2015 to 2023 and since then, she has worked as Clinical Internships Coordinator, managing the clinical placements of 1300 nursing students in 3 different campuses. She has worked for 5 years as a nurse, in Spain and Germany, in adult and pediatric care. Her teaching experience includes medical-surgical nursing, pathophysiology and life support. Her areas of research interest are international education in nursing, intercultural competencies in nursing students, and clinical simulation.
Target groups: Students, lecturers
