title: Community-Academic Partnerships: Developing a Service-Learning Framework.
abstract: Academic partnerships with hospitals and health care agencies for authentic clinical learning have become a major focus of schools of nursing and professional nursing organizations. Formal academic partnerships in community settings are less common despite evolving models of care delivery outside of inpatient settings. Community-Academic partnerships are commonly developed as a means to engage nursing students in service-learning experiences with an emphasis on student outcomes. The benefit of service-learning projects on community partners and populations receiving the service is largely unknown primarily due to the lack of structure for identifying and measuring outcomes specific to service-learning. Nursing students and their faculty engaged in service-learning have a unique opportunity to collaborate with community partners to evaluate benefits of service-learning projects on those receiving the service. This article describes the development of a service-learning framework as a first step toward successful measurement of the benefits of undergraduate nursing students' service-learning projects on community agencies and the people they serve through a collaborative community-academic partnership.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Oregon Health & Science University, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd, Ashland, OR, 97501.. Electronic address: vossh@ohsu.edu.
authors.forename: Heather C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Voss
authors.affiliation: Clinical Assistant Professor, Oregon Health & Science University, 3455 SW U.S. Veterans Hospital Road, Portland, OR, 99239-2941.. Electronic address: mathewsl@ohsu.edu.
authors.forename: Launa Rae
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Mathews
authors.affiliation: Clinical Director, La Clinica Health Center, 3617 S. Pacific Hwy., Medford, Oregon, 97401.. Electronic address: tfossen@lcdv.org.
authors.forename: Traci
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fossen
authors.affiliation: Nursing Director, Community Health Center, 19 Myrtle St., Medford, Oregon, 97504.. Electronic address: gingers@communityhealthcenter.org.
authors.forename: Ginger
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Scott
authors.affiliation: Outreach Coordinator, AllCare Health Plan, Medford, Oregon.. Electronic address: mschaefer66@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schaefer
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D007858:Learning; D013338:Students, Nursing
keywords: Community–Academic partnerships; Index words; Nursing clinical education; Service–Learning