3071.0 Academic Community Partnerships: e.g. service learning

Monday, October 31, 2011: 8:30 AM
Roundtable
This roundtable session focuses on a variety of community partnerships that have occurred through service learning. Some of these focus on student partnerships with: immigrant refugees,an AIDS community organization, a clinic to assess toddlers and preschool children, as well as work with women's groups to end family violence. While others discuss the use of community collaborations to: improve literacy writing skills, understand environmental health in relation to health policy, investigate health disparities, and develop partnership models.
Session Objectives: 1. Define different types of community partnerships. 2. Analyze the role of service learning, 3. Identify a strategy to improve academic and community partnerships.
Moderator:
Juanita C. Graham, DNPc MSN RN

Table 1
Desert sands to mountain snow: Nursing students' partnership with Eritrean refugees
Ann G. Hershberger, PhD, RN
  
Table 2
Collaborative community health nursing clinical in an AIDS Community Service Organization
Elnora P. Mendias, PhD, RN, Yolanda Davila, PhD, RN, Betty Douzar, RN, MSN and Georgia Nelson, BA, LCDC, MCM Executive Director
Table 3
Women's voices have the power to change community
Kelly Dunn, PhD, RN, PHCNS, BC
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Community-based learning: A campus/community partnership to investigate health disparities
Laura Anderko, RN, PhD, John Davies-Cole, PhD, MPH and Fern Johnson-Clarke, PhD
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Toddler and Preschool Developmental Assessment Clinics: Enhancing Student PHN Clinical Experiences While Serving the Community
Penny Weismuller, DrPH, RN and Karen D. Munoz, MSN, PHN, RN
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Improving writing and health literacy in nursing and public health students: Implications for service learning
Helda L. Pinzon-Perez, PhD, CHES, RN, Jose Arrezola and Kara N. Zografos, DrPH, MPH, CHES
Table 7
Community Nursing Coalitons (CNC): An Academic-Community Partnership Model
Angeline Bushy, PhD, RN, PH/CNS-BC, Norma Conner, PhD, RN and Maria Stahl, RN, MSN
  
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Community/Public Health Nursing Student Project Database: Linking Academia & Practice for Quality Projects
Jill Marie Collier, DNSc FNP CNS and Marina Gallin De Pablo, MS, MPH
Table 9
An Academic-Public Health Service Model: Enviornmental Health and Health Policy
Bethany Hall-Long, PhD, RNC, FAAN
Table 10
Service learning partnerships in community health nursing
Gayle W. Bentley, DNP, APRN, BC, Betty B. Daniels, MN, RN and Patricia Bowman, DNP, APRN-BC

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Public Health Nursing

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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