Student-client relationships in a community health nursing clinical setting.
Community-campus partnerships enrich community health nursing curricula in schools of nursing throughout the United States and elsewhere. The York College of Pennsylvania Department of Nursing entered into a collaborative relationship with the local housing authority to provide the nursing component for a nurse-managed Wellness Center that provides a clinical learning site for students in the senior-level community health nursing course. Students work with clients over a seven-week period. Findings after one year indicate that experience in this clinical setting enables students to apply the theoretical concepts of the community health nursing course and learn about the development of the nurse-client relationship.
York College of Pennsylvania, Department of Nursing, York, Pennsylvania, USA. cthompso@ycp.edu
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D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D003151:Community Health Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010414:Pennsylvania; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011638:Public Housing; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*