Caring and Community: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Nursing

The chapters in this collection describe ways in which nursing has begun to incorporate service-learning as a methodology into many diverse settings. Chapters include the following:

• Humanistic Learning in the Context of Service: The Liberal Arts in Nursing Education, by Jean Bartels
• Preparing Nurses for Roles That Will Improve Community Health: Two National Programs Enhance Relationships Between Providers and Educators, by Mary Kay Kohles, et al
• Service Education Partnerships Create Community Service-Learning Opportunities in a Rural Region, by Sharon Aadalen et al
• Service-Learning as a Pedagogy in Nursing, by Elaine Cohen, et al
• Case Study of a Service-Learning Project in a Nurse Managed Clinic for Homeless and Indigent Individuals, by Carol Macnee, et al
• A Case Study in Service-Learning Using a Collaborative Community-Based Caring Model, by Evelyn Atchison and Patricia Tumminia
• Community Empowerment Through Service-Learning, by Leanne Busby, et al
• Nursing Clinical Education in an Urban Public School System, by Donna Miles Curry, et al
• The Community as Classroom: Service-Learning in Tillery, North Carolina, by Nina Shah and Mary Glascoff
• Service-Learning Lessons From the Chambered Nautilus, by Evelyn Quigley, et al