Journal article
Providing Undergraduate Nursing Students and the Community With an Opportunity to SMILE: Student Managed Initiatives in Lifestyle Education
The Journal of nursing education, Vol.56(5), pp.309-313
2017
PMID: 28467562
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Abstract
Background: The SMILE: Student Managed Initiative in Lifestyle Education program is an arts and health workshop that runs for 2 hours per day for 8 weeks. Health care students and community members are invited to participate. SMILE was developed to provide undergraduate nursing and health care students with an opportunity to practice and improve on their communication, group facilitation, and leadership skills. SMILE also provides community participants access to an arts and health education workshop.
Method: The SMILE project was evaluated using a qualitative approach to identify effects to student and community participant learning.
Results: The SMILE evaluation highlighted a key theme: Helping to Learn, Learning to Help. Students identified SMILE as an opportunity to learn how to help and community members recognized and valued their role in helping students learn.
Conclusion: This article provides an overview of the SMILE program and report on the evaluation findings.
Details
- Title
- Providing Undergraduate Nursing Students and the Community With an Opportunity to SMILE: Student Managed Initiatives in Lifestyle Education
- Creators
- Louise Ward - La Trobe UniversityDaniel Ward - La Trobe Univ, Psychol, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
- Publication Details
- The Journal of nursing education, Vol.56(5), pp.309-313
- Publisher
- Slack Inc
- Number of pages
- 5
- Identifiers
- 991013126108102368
- Copyright
- Copyright 2017, SLACK Incorporated.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article