Abstract

Healthcare staff educates nursing students during their clerkships at community health nursing programs. Their teaching methods play an important role in nursing students’ acquisition of competencies; however, these methods have not been studied thoroughly. Thus, this study aims to describe, interpret, and understand the experiences of healthcare staff’s teaching methods in clerkships at a community health nursing program. It takes a village to raise a child and if we want to improve health services in schools, we need to bring together a variety of constituencies:community, educators, health professionals, universities and politicians, to name a few. We need partnerships.Partnerships are not a new concept in the profession of nursing. In fact, partnerships in nursing education are a wellestablished practice since the 18th and 19th centuries. What seems to be new is a shiі, in the past decades, from a model of partnerships that was focused on building workforce to a model that aims at supporting advocacy reports to improve health services for children, their families and communities.

Keywords: Nursing; Public health; Nurses; Community channels