Using Practice Tools for Community Health

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Teaching Strategy Description:

Students are divided into groups of eight. Within the group, students arrange themselves in pairs and select one of the four practice tools (see Resources). Students are given a narrative of a population health issue, (e.g. increasing non-intentional injuries among children in an urban community).  The student pairs then prepare, based on readings and key questions, a 30 minute session to teach their peers group about their chosen practice tool. Their clinical tutor coaches and guides the learning to support practice application.

Teaching Context:

  • First two weeks of a community clinical course
  • The practice tools they learn to use in these sessions are applied over the term

Resources:

Students use the four practice tools:

Practice Tool #1: Community Assessment

  • Yiu, L. (2012). Community care. In L.L. Stamler & L. Yiu (Eds.), Community health nursing: A Canadian perspective (pp. 213-235). Toronto, Ontario: Pearson Prentice Hall.

Practice Tool #2: Measuring the Health of their Community

  • Stamler, L.L. (2012). Epidemiology.  In L.L. Stamler & L. Yiu (Eds), Community health nursing: A Canadian perspective (pp.139-154). Toronto, Ontario: Pearson Prentice Hall.

Practice Tool #3: Health Promotion Approaches

  • Cohen, B. (2012). Population health promotion models and strategies. In L.L. Stamler &  L. Yiu (Eds).Community health nursing: A Canadian perspective (pp. 89-108). Toronto, Ontario: Pearson Prentice Hall.

Practice Tool #4: Program Planning and Evaluation

 

Submitted by:  Ruth Schofield, McMaster University

Indicator(s): 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6