You Get More than You Give! The Impact of Service Learning on the Development of Professional Competencies Karen Brown, MSN, RN Ryan Raifsnider, BSN Student

Objectives By the end of the session, attendees will be able to: Identify one or more personal experiences with service learning. Describe an approach for designing a service learning course. Discuss outcomes of service learning from faculty and student perspectives. Identify two methods for deepening and evaluating students’ learning in the course.

Your Experiences Service Learning: What are your experiences? What did you learn?

Begin with the end in mind: Professional Competencies (Covey, 1989) Planning: AACN Essentials for Baccalaureate Prepared Nurses QSEN Competencies What are your discipline’s expectations of professional competencies for graduates?

Service Learning Approach Course Design: Collaboration with community agency Reinforcement of classroom learning Methods to deepen learning -Evidence-based activity leadership -Reflective journals -Clinical performance evaluation

Course Experiences A Student’s Perspective: “I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.” -John Steinbeck

Learning to Care Caring to Learn  People, not Pathology!!  Understanding there are no grades for caring about someone, we are graded on how we care FOR someone.

Professional Competencies Learned Advocacy Assessment/observational skills Collaboration Communication skills Caring Empathy Professionalism Values of human dignity, integrity, respect, autonomy, altruism Evidence-based Practice: Reminiscence Intervention; experiences.

Professional Learning Outcomes The impact of Service Learning on future practice: Student experiences

Service Learning: Not Just for Nurses! How can service-learning help you in your discipline?

References American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2008). Essentials of baccalaureate education for professional nursing practice. Retrieved from: resources/BaccEssentials08.pdfhttp:// resources/BaccEssentials08.pdf American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2010). Recommended baccalaureate competencies and curricular guidelines for the nursing care of older adults: A Supplement to the essentials of baccalaureate education for professional nursing practice. Retrieved from: Bonnette, R. (2006). Out of the Classroom and Into the Community: Service Learning Reinforces Classroom Instruction. Technology Teacher, 65(5), Covey, S. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Fireside: NY, NY. Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Institute (2014) Competencies. Retrieved from: Strait, J. R. (2007). Deepening Community-based Learning Through Collaboration and Assessment. International Journal On School Disaffection, 5(2),