title: Learning through teaching: empowering students and culturally diverse patients at a community-based nursing care center.
abstract: This article addresses the effect of a nursing care center on student learning. Associate degree nursing students spend clinical days at a nursing care center that was created in collaboration with an inner-city clinic serving individuals who are uninsured and underinsured. The nursing students learn cultural sensitivity, teaching strategies, and interdisciplinary skills. The service-learning experience benefits the nursing students, the nursing department of the college, the patients who visit the nursing care center, the clinic, and the community. This article describes the development of the nursing care center, examples of teaching-learning opportunities, and evidence of student learning. This successful collaboration between a community college and an inner-city clinic can be Associareplicated by other nursing programs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Lancaster Campus of Harrisburg Area Community College, 1641 Old Philadelphia Pike, Lancaster, PA 17602-2690, USA. jasensen@hacc.edu
authors.forename: Julia A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Sensenig
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel / Q000208:ethnology; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003142:Communication; D003151:Community Health Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D004507:Education, Nursing, Associate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000193:education / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007858:Learning; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010414:Pennsylvania; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011287:Prejudice; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D013663:Teaching; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration