title: Pairing students for community health nursing home visits.
abstract: Faculty paired community health nursing (CHN) students for home visits to reduce students' anxiety and enhance their learning of the nursing process. The pairing method involved 60 students over a three-semester period. The process is described and advantages and disadvantages are analyzed. The net results are favorable. Faculty found that students' fear of entering an unfamiliar home was supplanted by a sense of challenge at working collaboratively with a peer. Furthermore, the pairing experience increased students' confidence in making decisions about client care and offered them more physical safety when visiting high-crime urban settings. Students felt positive about the increased safety and expressed greater confidence in their CHN role and their application of the nursing process.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schwab
authors.forename: B H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Robinson
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D010379:Peer Group; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012944:Social Support; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*