Incorporating a built environment module into an accelerated second-degree community health nursing course.
Environmental quality is a leading indicator of population health. Environmental health content has been integrated into the curriculum of an Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program for second-degree students through development of an environmental health nursing module for the final-semester community health nursing course. The module was developed through collaboration between two professional schools at Duke University (the School of Nursing and the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences). It focused on the role of the built environment in community health and featured a mix of teaching strategies, including five components: (1) classroom lecture with associated readings, (2) two rounds of online small-group student discussions, (3) assessment of the built environment in local neighborhoods by student teams, (4) team presentation of the neighborhood assessments, and (5) individual student papers synthesizing the conclusions from all team presentations. The goal of the module was to provide nursing students with an organizing framework for integrating environmental health into clinical practice and an innovative tool for understanding community-level components of public health.
Hays
Judith C
JC
Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, NC 27710, USA. judith.hays@duke.edu
Davis
Jeffrey A
JA
Miranda
Marie Lynn
ML
D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D018672:Community Health Planning; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004518:Education, Professional, Retraining / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004782:Environmental Health / Q000193:education*; D040362:Geographic Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D009657:North Carolina; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013663:Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration