Using journals for community health students engaged in group work.
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.
Drevdahl
Denise J
DJ
Nursing Program, University of Washington-Tacoma, 1900 Commerce Street, Box 358421, Tacoma, WA 98402-3100, USA. drevdahl@u.washington.edu
Dorcy
Kathleen Shannon
KS
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