title: Transforming the curriculum while serving the community: strategies for developing community-based sites.
abstract: Developing community-based clinical opportunities for students is a challenge. At San Jose State University (SJSU) School of Nursing, faculty transformed the curriculum by developing community-based experiences directed by faculty and delivered by students during clinical practice. These innovative clinical experiences provide a structure to educate students and enhance the ability to bring health care to underserved people in a community. This article describes the structure and processes for implementing the new experiences and offers strategies to guide other faculty interested in developing community-based experiences.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, San Jose State University, California 95112-9983, USA.
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Yoder
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gorenberg
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000639:trends*; D003479:Curriculum / Q000639:trends*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States