Campus Service-Learning Projects

• Journal Article

Teaching Strategy Description:

Students are invited to participate in service learning projects across the campus.  Some examples include:

• Mobile immunization clinics for flu vaccines
• Sexual Consent Month
• Planning and delivery of sexual consent awareness initiatives
• Developing a presentation and skit that will be presented to several first-year classes
• Sexual health promotion
  • creating a YouTube video that will provide an overview of a standard visit to the campus health clinic
  • creating a list of sexual health promotion tweets and links for the university’s Twitter account
• Mental health at the university
  • Creating awareness of mental health resources for students
  • Offering various stress relief activities including yoga, sleep, and hygiene
  • Bystander intervention techniques for mental health

Teaching Context:

• Clinical experience course

Resources:

Falk-Rafael, A., & Betker, C. (2012).  “Witnessing Social Injustice Downstream and Advocating for Health Equity Upstream ‘The Trombone Slide’ of Nursing.”  Advances in Nursing Science 35(2): 98–112.

Reutter, L., & Eastlick Kushner, K. (2010.) “Health equity through action on the social determinants of health: taking up the challenge in nursing.” Nursing Inquiry 17(3): 269–280.

 

Submitted by: Drs. Audrey Steenbeek; Adele Vukic; Andrea Chircop; Ingrid Waldram; Megan Aston, Dalhousie University

Indicator(s): 4.1, 4.2, 4.3