Planting seeds of community-engaged pedagogy: Community health nursing practice in an intergenerational campus-community gardening program.

As part of a participatory action research (PAR) study, nursing student participants collaborated with faculty, along with older adults, people with mixed abilities, and preschool aged children in order to 'sow the seeds of social change' and grow a campus community gardening project. The focus of this article is on the community-engaged pedagogy within a community health nursing practice course that supported student learning. Insights were gleaned over the course of four academic semesters (and four student cohort groups) with students as co-developers of the campus-community garden and participants in the PAR.

To what extent do health visitors and school nurses have a voice in the policy process?

The purpose of the study was to explore the reciprocal impact of health policy on public health nursing and public health nursing on policy in England. The theoretical framework was critical social theory and the methodology was constructivist grounded theory (Charmaz, 2006). In the first phase of the research, initial scoping questionnaires and follow-up telephone interviews were conducted.