title: Using journals for community health students engaged in group work.
abstract: Teaching students concepts integral to community health nursing, such as collaboration and partnership, while providing clinical practica in community agencies, mandates that students address group process and evaluate self-growth. To facilitate reflection on self-learning in the context of collaborative group work, faculty and students use a structured, graded, weekly journal. This teaching and learning tool serves as a mechanism for assisting students with understanding group process.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Program, University of Washington-Tacoma, 1900 Commerce Street, Box 358421, Tacoma, WA 98402-3100, USA. drevdahl@u.washington.edu
authors.forename: Denise J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Drevdahl
authors.forename: Kathleen Shannon
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Dorcy
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014956:Writing