Caring and Community : Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Nursing.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (200 pages)
- Higher Education Series .
- Higher Education Series .
Cover -- Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- About This Series -- Introduction -- Part 1: Theoretical Essays -- Humanistic Learning in the Context of Service: The Liberal Arts in Nursing Education -- Preparing Nurses for Roles That Will Improve Community Health: Two National Programs Enhance Relationships Between Providers and Educators -- Service Education Partnerships Create Community Service-Learning Opportunities in a Rural Region -- Part 2: Classroom Applications -- Service-Learning as a Pedagogy in Nursing -- Case Study of a Service-Learning Project in a Nurse-Managed Clinic for Homeless and Indigent Individuals -- A Case Study in Service-Learning Using a Collaborative Community-Based Caring Model -- Community Empowerment Through Service-Learning -- Nursing Clinical Education in an Urban Public School System -- The Community as Classroom: Service-Learning in Tillery, North Carolina -- Service-Learning Lessons From the Chambered Nautilus -- Samples of Syllabi and Assignments -- Set 1: Materials From "Service-Learning as a Pedagogy in Nursing -- Syllabus: Nursing Concepts -- Service-Learning Assignment -- Student Project Final Report: "Caring in the Community -- Set 2: Materials From "Case Study of a Service-Learning Project in a Nurse-Managed Clinic for Homeless and Indigent Individuals -- Syllabus: Introduction to Community Service -- Syllabus: Community Health Nursing Practicum -- Guidelines for the Clinic Critique -- Excerpts From Students' Reflection Papers -- Set 3: Materials From Service-Learning Courses on Homelessness and Rural Nursing -- Syllabus: Homelessness: Causes and Consequences -- Syllabus: Rural Nursing in Appalachia -- Syllabus: Clinical Practice in Appalachia -- Set 4: Materials From Service-Learning Practica in Nursing Service Administration. Community Health Nursing Practica: Service-Learning Activities -- Nursing Services Administrative Practica: Service-Learning Activities -- Master's Thesis/Projects: Service-Learning Activities -- Annotated Bibliography: Nursing and Service-Learning -- Appendix -- List of Practitioners.
Although service-learning and nursing would seem an obvious combination, nursing, as a profession within academic, research, and health-care organizations has only recently begun to embrace the true spirit of the practice.