Community partnerships: redirecting the education of undergraduate nursing students.
Consistent with the goal of reforming nursing education to support nursing's agenda for health care reform, a community-based, multiprofessional initiative supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation began in Hawaii in 1991. This initiative created a partnership among the University of Hawaii Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Social Work, and Public Health, three community health centers, and their communities to provide a community-based, integrated system of health care, education, and research. In response to this initiative, the School of Nursing developed an integrated undergraduate curriculum consisting of: a discipline-specific tutorial using an inquiry-based learning strategy; a multiprofessional tutorial; and a 1-year clinical experience providing culturally competent primary care. Community-based education has stimulated changes in the philosophy, mission, and curriculum of the School of Nursing. The outcomes achieved as a result of this initiative have had a favorable impact on clients using the community health centers, the communities, the School of Nursing, and the students.
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Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, Hawaii 96792, USA.
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D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends*; D006254:Hawaii; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans