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This paper discusses service-learning for nursing students. It describes service-learning as a learning tool and discusses the integration of service-learning into the nursing school curriculum. the paper defines service-learning and then focuses on the benefits derived from service-learning on the part of nursing students and in the nursing profession.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Service-Learning As A Tool
Identification Of Benefits Of Service-Learning
Theoretical Framework Of Service-Learning
Integration Of Service-Learning & Curriculum
Successful Implementation: Education-Practice Partnerships
Summary And Conclusion

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"This work has reviewed literature relating to service-learning of nursing students and integration of service-learning into the nursing school curriculum. The benefits derived from service-learning on the part of nursing students have been noted to include those such as the student having a sense of personal satisfaction as well as professional growth during service learning. Service learning has been found to promote a higher level of critical thinking skills as well as preparing the nursing practice in a health care setting that is both "dynamic and diverse. (4) Additionally the service-learning experience is one that results in the increase in awareness of the unmet needs among individuals throughout the community in the location of the nursing practice."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Seifer, SD (1998) Service-Learning: Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Professions Education. Academic Medicine, 73(3) :273-277.
• Bailey, PA; Harrington, P; and Carpenter, DR (2002) Theoretical Foundations of Service-Learning in Nursing Education. Journal of Nursing Education Vol. 41 No. 10 October 2002.
• Building Partnerships Into All Aspects of Service-Learning: A Tool for Service-Learning Programs. 2000 Community-Campus Partnerships for Health.
• Callister, L. C., & Hobbins-Garbett, D. (2000). "Enter to learn, go forth to serve": Service learning in nursing education. Journal of Professional Nursing 16(3), 177-83. in Seifer, Sarena D and Vaughn, Rachel L (nd) Service-Learning in Nursing. University of Washington. Online available at www.washington.edu.
• Gassner, L. A., Wotton, K., (1999). Evaluation of a model of collaboration: Academic and clinician in the development and implementation of undergraduate teaching. Collegian 6(3), 14-21, 28. in Seifer, Sarena D and Vaughn, Rachel L (nd) Service-Learning in Nursing. University of Washington. Online available at www.washington.edu.

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