title: Learning about population-health through a community practice learning project: An evaluation study.
abstract: Increasing student nurse numbers requiring community placement learning opportunities has led to insufficient numbers of community nurses being available to support student nurses in the community. Although the study presented in the article is based in the UK this issue is reported widely in the literature across the globe. Universities in many countries have had to find innovative ways of providing community health learning opportunities for student nurses. This article reports on how one university in the UK has approached this challenge through students engaging in a population-based study in the community through group work. A research study was undertaken into this innovation which found that the student nurses engaged well with the project and with their groups and undertaking the project had positive value and impact on them and their understanding of population-health. Issues that arose for them largely focused on unequal participation in the group work by some with many participants perceiving that they had done more work on the group project and presentation than others in their group. However, working in this way was perceived to be a good learning experience for the majority of participants.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education, Kingston University, St George's University of London, Frank Lampl Building, Kingston Hill, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT2 7LB, UK.
authors.forename: Maggie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Davenport
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education, Kingston University, St George's University of London, 2nd Floor Grosvenor Wing, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE, UK.
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ooms
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health, Social Care an Education, Kingston University, St George's University of London, 30 Beacon Crescent, Tilford Road, Hindhead, Surrey GU26 6UG, UK. Electronic address: marksmaran@btopenworld.com.
authors.forename: Di
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marks-Maran
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D006304:Health Status; D007858:Learning; D036301:Qualitative Research; D013338:Students, Nursing; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Community nursing; Evaluation research; Group work; Population-health