RESUMO
Using a service learning approach, registered nurse baccalaureate students apply the concepts of community- and population-centered practice through participation in a 10-week clinical practicum. Through this project, students experience community health theories in action, understand the sociopolitical processes that shape health, and think more broadly about clients within their particular clinical practice, and populations beyond those settings.
Assuntos
Estágio Clínico/organização & administração , Competência Clínica/normas , Enfermagem em Saúde Comunitária/educação , Planejamento em Saúde Comunitária/organização & administração , Bacharelado em Enfermagem/organização & administração , Reeducação Profissional/organização & administração , Modelos Educacionais , Modelos de Enfermagem , Atitude do Pessoal de Saúde , Redes Comunitárias/organização & administração , Humanos , Avaliação em Enfermagem/organização & administração , Teoria de Enfermagem , Política , Estudantes de Enfermagem/psicologiaRESUMO
Social justice is a core ethical principle of public health nursing; yet, nurses' work as social activists has largely diminished over the past century. Reengagement in social justice activities is essential to change the current social, economic, and health differentials perpetuated by market justice ideologies. Social capital has emerged in the public health literature as a promising concept for developing community interventions that diminish disparities. Public health nurses, however, must be wary of uncritically adopting social capital as a panacea for inequalities; advocating for interventions seeking to build social capital may be as harmful as the inequalities themselves.
