title: Integrating caring, scholarship, and community engagement in Mexico.
abstract: To provide students with an unforgettable introduction to community-engaged scholarship, students partnered with the local health promoter of a marginalized community in northeastern Mexico to plan and conduct diabetes education classes with individualized follow-up. The author describes how students and faculty, inspired by this vision, integrated service, scholarship, and community engagement. The experience strengthened the health promoter's role, empowered patients with type 2 diabetes to improve self-care management, and provided students the opportunity to measure the impact of their interventions.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Loma Linda University, 11262 Campus Street, Loma Linda, CA 92350, USA. eramal@llu.edu
authors.forename: Edelweiss
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ramal
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008800:Mexico; D024802:Nurse's Role; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation