Creating and sustaining an academic-practice Partnership Engagement Model

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Public health clinical educators and practicing public health nurses (PHNs) are experiencing challenges in creating meaningful clinical learning experiences for nursing students due to an increase in nursing programs and greater workload responsibilities for both nursing faculty and PHNs. The Henry Street Consortium (HSC), a collaborative group of PHNs and nursing faculty, conducted a project to identify best practices for public health nursing student clinical learning experiences. Project leaders surveyed HSC members about preferences for teaching-learning strategies, facilitated development of resources and tools to guide learning, organized faculty/PHN pilot teams to test resources and tools with students, and evaluated the pilot team experiences through two focus groups. The analysis of the outcomes of the partnership engagement project led to the development of the Partnership Engagement Model (PEM), which may be used by nursing faculty and their public health practice partners to guide building relationships and sustainable partnerships for educating nursing students.

Department(s)

Nursing

Publication Title

Public Health Nursing

Volume

34

Issue

6

First Page

576

Last Page

584

Publication Date

11-1-2017

DOI

10.1111/phn.12355

ISSN

07371209

E-ISSN

15251446

PubMed ID

28944504

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