Learning community health nursing concepts from clinical experience.
Clinical faculty often struggle to design competency demonstrations that promote quality learning experiences. A nursing program in Oregon combined mental health and community health nursing practica and required well-planned, integrated competency demonstrations. This requirement became the impetus for students to promote the health of clients and learn clinical concepts that are difficult to experience in a typical term. Faculty coached students to make a significant contribution that would last beyond their clinical practica. A case study in competency demonstration design is described, and implications for curriculum development are presented.
Lasater
Kathie
K
Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing, Portland, USA. lasaterk@ohsu.edu
Luce
Linda
L
Volpin
Miriam
M
Terwilliger
Allison
A
Wild
Jackson
J
D003151:Community Health Centers; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing*; D009922:Oregon; D011204:Poverty Areas