Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, New York

An Innovative Approach To Inter-Professional Collaboration Utilizing A

Three Way Academic Service Partnership Monica Diamond-Caravella, MSN, RN, PMC, AE-C, Claudia Guglielmo, MPA, AE-C, Anne Little, MPH, AE-C

BACKGROUND

RESULTS

PURPOSE• Lack of available traditional

community health clinical placements have encouraged nurse educators to ‘push the boundaries’ of their curriculum.

• Creative academic service partnerships have received praise for promoting experiential education, learning and teaching of the core competencies of community/public health nursing (civic engagement, altruism, outreach to high risk clients and social justice).

• Excessive asthma related ED/hospital admissions have been identified in high needs communities on Long Island.

To identify a best practice community academic service partnership model

that has the potential of improving health outcomes for an at-risk aggregate population of public school students with asthma

A best-practice partnership emerged:

•Nursing faculty found meaningful ways to connect theory to real-life community experience. •Nursing students reported acquiring expanded asthma knowledge, developed cultural competence and began to understand the complexities of social justice and the needs of the poor. •The community partner gained a workforce..

Conceptualization of An Academic Practice Partnership

Structured experience connecting classroom to clinical

Reciprocal learning

Equal and shared power,

mission, vision, values, needs, goals &

outcomes

Mutual trust, respect &

communication

Structured critical

reflection

Sustained community

engagement

RN-BSN Farmingdale nursing students enrolled in a

Community Health nursing course were trained to deliver

the American Lung Association’s evidence-based asthma

self-management program to school-aged children.

“I would like to thank my principal & the school nurse for bringing the [Open

Airways] Program to our school. I would like to thank the nurses for teaching me about

asthma control…I would be in an emergency room right now if it wasn’t for them! “

OAS Student

Breen, L., Diamond-Caravella, M., Guglielmo, C., Little, A., Moore, G., Wruck, M. (2012). Community and University Partnerships with Schools:A Win-Win Best-Practice Model [Abs.261259]. 140th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association.

I was afraid to let my son play sports. Now I know what to ask the doctor…OAS parent

“I used to always go to

the hospital for my asthma…now I know

what to do and I won’t

have to go.”OAS Student

METHODOLOGY

SIGNIFICANCE Public school students with asthma were the

real winners!