- Title
- Using a virtual community to enhance nursing student's understanding of primary health care
- Creator
- Day, Jenny; Levett-Jones, Tracy; Taylor, Ann Clare Thorington
- Relation
- Collegian Vol. 21, Issue 2, p. 143-150
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.colegn.2013.09.006
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- The need to reform the Australian healthcare system and to reorient health services towards primary health care has grown over recent years, resulting in Australia's First National Health Care Strategy (Department of Health and Ageing, 2010). A past tendency for Australian university programmes to focus on acute care or hospital based services rather than primary health care in the preparation of students for practice has also become apparent (Keleher, Parker, & Francis, 2010). This tendency needs to be overcome to ensure graduates have a sound understanding of primary health care services and how these contribute to individual and community health. The preparation of undergraduate nursing students therefore needs reorientation to maintain alignment with planned changes in future health care delivery and to adequately prepare nurses for practice. This paper describes how the introduction of a new curriculum created an opportunity to re-evaluate past approaches to teaching primary health care and led to the creation of Wiimali, a virtual community.
- Subject
- education; primary health care; nursing; virtual community
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1066215
- Identifier
- uon:18049
- Identifier
- ISSN:1322-7696
- Language
- eng
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