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The Homeless Experience: Clinic Building in a Community Health Discovery‐Learning Project
Author(s) -
Turner Saundra L.,
Bauer Geraldine,
McNair Evelyn,
McNutt Brenda,
Walker Wanda
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1446.1989.tb00579.x
Subject(s) - bachelor , psychological intervention , nursing , health care , psychology , community health , medicine , medical education , public health , archaeology , economics , history , economic growth
The concept of discovery learning is exemplified in this account of four students and their instructor who began and developed a nurse‐run clinic for the homeless in a community health project. The students were registered nurses returning for their bachelor's degrees. They experienced frustration at learning the difference between care based on their assessments of patients' needs and care geared to clients' assessments of desired interventions. The journals that they kept reveal self‐discovery as well as new respect for other humans. In addition, a new type of community care emerged, which gives all indications of surviving.