Projects of the BT2P Community

Community Engagement Curriculum in an Undergraduate Nursing Program

Description:

Nursing students and faculty at Bethel University value the goals of community engagement: reducing health disparities, developing cultural competence, and serving vulnerable populations. Yet finding ways to embed these goals in a content-driven curriculum is a challenge. With a Program Development Grant from Bringing Theory to Practice, Bethel built a community engagement curriculum in which students are assigned to a community agency throughout their five semesters in the nursing program.  Many of these agencies serve vulnerable, multicultural populations, and students work with them  to improve community health outcomes.

Institution(s):

Bethel University

Institutional Type:

  • Comprehensive private university

Theme(s):

  • Civic and community engagement
  • Work and learning
  • Curricular innovation
  • Program design

State(s):

Minnesota

Contacts:

Diane Dahl, [email protected]