title: UMDNJ school of nursing mobile healthcare project: a component of the New Jersey Children's Health Project.
abstract: This article describes a mobile ambulatory care nurse-managed center on wheels designed to address the healthcare needs of at-risk inner city residents. A grant-funded initiative, the Project uniquely joins nursing academe with community-based organizations in a partnership that brings healthcare services directly to those communities most in need. In addition to providing healthcare services, the Project serves as a site for faculty practice and community clinical rotations for nursing and medical students. The broad objectives of this nurse-faculty managed mobile healthcare project are: (1) to screen, identify and provide health promotion/disease management services for at-risk populations, (2) to foster community involvement in the health assessment and referral process; and, (3) to provide culturally and linguistically sensitive health promotion/disease management health education.
authors.affiliation: UMDNJ School of Nursing Mobile Healthcare Project, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ 07107, USA.
authors.forename: Gloria J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: McNeal
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration; D003256:Community Participation; D019468:Disease Management; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000458:organization & administration; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D008952:Mobile Health Units / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009515:New Jersey; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009734:Nursing Faculty Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000458:organization & administration; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*