Accelerated RN-to-BSN Service-Learning Program Serves the Vulnerable. Issue 1 (January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Barnes, Margaret
• Is Part Of: Journal of Christian nursing. Volume 34:Issue 1(2017)
• Publication Date: 2017-01
• Subjects: Christian education -- nontraditional programs -- nursing -- online courses -- RN-to-BSN -- service-learning -- vulnerable populations; Nursing ethics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Periodicals; Christianity -- Periodicals; Nursing Care -- Periodicals; Religion and Medicine -- Periodicals; Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Nursing ethics; Periodicals; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 610.73
• DOI: 10.1097/CNJ.0000000000000336
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0743-2550

Abstract

Abstract : ABSTRACT: The definition, implementation, and benefits support the value of service-learning for nursing education. However, accelerated RN-to-BSN programs may have difficulty requiring service-learning experiences. This article offers a biblical rationale for service with vulnerable populations and an example of how service-learning is implemented into the curriculum of an accelerated, nontraditional, online/onsite RN-BSN completion program at a Christian university.