Helping say goodbye: merging clinical scholarship with community service.
Clinical scholarship is elusive but involves observation, comparison of what is and what might be, applicability and analysis of appropriate theory-based practice, and passion for the process. The article examines characteristics of clinical scholarship in a clinical practice with a community service mission: facilitation of a support group for parents experiencing perinatal loss. The conceptual framework for this practice arena, Swanson-Kauffman's caring concepts and Yalom's curative factors of group participation, is explored. Practical information about initiating and maintaining an environment of clinical scholarship in a support group practice is provided, with discussion of the appropriateness of support group involvement for this population.
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D001601:Bereavement; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D003643:Death; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009734:Nursing Faculty Practice; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012657:Self-Help Groups / Q000458:organization & administration*