Facilitating Volunteer Community Engagement Service.

Community engagement is an emerging form of pedagogy in nursing education that requires students and faculty to go beyond the traditional classroom setting to generate meaningful community-based experiences. Service-learning and volunteering are strategies nurse educators use for community service work. There is a gap in specific guidance for the faculty role in facilitating community-engaged volunteer service. A case study describes collaboration between two faculty members and a community RN to develop volunteer service weekend trips requested by undergraduate nursing students. They shared responsibilities for planning and offering the trips through a co-facilitator role based on community engagement principles. The trip facilitators' collaboration resulted in a positive and productive community volunteer service experience for undergraduate nursing students. The community-engaged pedagogy provided a framework for building capacity between an academic and a community organization for student volunteer service. [J Nurs Educ. 2020;59(3):166-168.]. Copyright 2020, SLACK Incorporated.

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Janet H Davis, Cindy Robbins, David Maurer. Facilitating Volunteer Community Engagement Service. The Journal of nursing education. 2020 Mar 01;59(3):166-168

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PMID: 32130420

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