Abstract
Academic partnerships with hospitals and health care agencies for authentic clinical learning have become a major focus of schools of nursing and professional nursing organizations. Formal academic partnerships in community settings are less common despite evolving models of care delivery outside of inpatient settings. Community-Academic partnerships are commonly developed as a means to engage nursing students in service-learning experiences with an emphasis on student outcomes. The benefit of service-learning projects on community partners and populations receiving the service is largely unknown primarily due to the lack of structure for identifying and measuring outcomes specific to service-learning. Nursing students and their faculty engaged in service-learning have a unique opportunity to collaborate with community partners to evaluate benefits of service-learning projects on those receiving the service. This article describes the development of a service-learning framework as a first step toward successful measurement of the benefits of undergraduate nursing students' service-learning projects on community agencies and the people they serve through a collaborative community-academic partnership.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 922 |
Pages (from-to) | 395-401 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Journal of Professional Nursing |
Volume | 31 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1 2015 |
Keywords
- Community-Academic partnerships
- Index words
- Nursing clinical education
- Service-Learning
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Nursing