title: Core principles for developing global service-learning programs in nursing.
abstract: Global service-learning enables nursing to develop its role in promoting global health and enabling vulnerable and marginalized global communities to develop their own capacity for growth and development. Global service-learning requires good planning that is based on sound best-practice principles. Drawing on the growing body of literature on service-learning, the authors outline and discuss seven key principles that can usefully guide global service-learning. These are: are compassion, curiosity, courage, collaboration, creativity, capacity building, and competence. These principles can form the basis for ethically sound program development, offer a means of standardizing program development, and provide common criteria with which to evaluate a program's success.
authors.affiliation: Valley Foundation School of Nursing at San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA. thm4@cruzio.com
authors.forename: Tamara H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: McKinnon
authors.forename: Gerard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fealy
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D003405:Creativity; D054521:Cultural Competency; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000193:education*; D014481:United States; D014838:Volunteers