title: The role of empowerment in neighborhood-based nursing education.
abstract: It is a challenge to prepare nursing students for practice in the rapidly changing healthcare arena. A longitudinal clinical education experience, external to tertiary institutions and supportive of lifelong learning, creative and critical thinking is one way to empower students to provide appropriate care within a diverse population and evolving healthcare system. Nursing faculty, nursing students, community providers and neighborhood residents participate as colleagues in a joint venture of assessment, intervention, and learning.
authors.affiliation: Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Gauthier
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Matteson
mesh_terms: D001900:Boston; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D003256:Community Participation; D005544:Forecasting; D006286:Health Planning Councils; D006801:Humans; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D011209:Power, Psychological