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Effects of a service-learning experience on health-related students' attitudes toward the homeless.
Nurs Forum
January 2021
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, USA Health Children's and Women's Hospital, Mobile, Alabama, USA.
Objectives: A community engagement service-learning experience was planned to provide health services for the homeless during a local 1-day event. The objectives were to (a) determine the feasibility of a service-learning experience, and to (b) examine the effects on students' attitudes toward persons experiencing homelessness.
Methods: A quasi-experimental, institutional review board approved study, including health-related students enrolled in a local university or community college, was planned.
The Creation of an Interprofessional Evidence-Based Practice Council.
J Nurs Adm
January 2020
Author Affiliations: Assistant Professor, Adult Health Nursing Department (Dr Copeland), and Assistant Professor, Maternal-Child Nursing Department (Dr Miller), University of South Alabama College of Nursing; and In-service Specialist (Dr Copeland), USA Health Children's and Women's Hospital; and Assistant Director for Strategic Initiatives and Senior Librarian (Ms Clanton), Charles M. Baugh Biomedical Library, Mobile, Alabama.
Evidence-based practice (EBP), communication, and interprofessional collaboration are all essential for safe, quality care. As members of the interprofessional team, nurse leaders are in a unique position to advance patient safety with a strategic plan, infrastructure, resources, reporting structure, and recognition program to guide the way. Leaders of a 152-bed children's and women's hospital formed an academic-practice partnership to create an interprofessional council to foster the principles of collaboration and EBP among frontline staff.
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