title: Community-based research: a tool for community empowerment and student learning.
abstract: Teaching Nursing Research is most often done close to the end of the student's educational experience. This article describes Northeastern University College of Nursing's experience using community-based research projects as a method of teaching nursing concepts and skills to beginning nursing students. By using Paulo Freire's model of Community Empowerment, a group of inner-city teens developed a drug awareness manual that is used to teach elementary school students about drugs and drug use. Through this model, students also learn that healthcare is a partnership among individuals, communities and professionals.
authors.affiliation: Northeastern University College of Nursing, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: B R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Kelley
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001900:Boston; D002648:Child; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D003256:Community Participation; D006801:Humans; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D016294:Models, Nursing; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000193:education*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control