The presentation, “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words:聽 How PhotoVoice Captured the Structural Barriers to Health” will relay the findings of a community-engaged research project completed with residents of an organization that provides transitional housing to people experiencing homelessness. PhotoVoice, a qualitative research methodology, proved to be a valuable tool to assess the health needs of this community and give the residents a “voice.” Lessons learned from using PhotoVoice, as well as tips for using PhotoVoice with people experiencing homelessness will also be shared.

DeBrew has been a part of the 黑料不打烊 Department of Nursing since its creation in August 2021. She has worked with Partnership Village, the supporting organization for her research, since 2021 to build a community-engaged learning site for students, as well as a site for faculty research. Hicks joined DeBrew as part of her work in her doctoral program at Liberty University. Since doing this research, she has joined the Department of Nursing as a full-time faculty member.聽 Both DeBrew and Hicks have volunteered at Partnership Village, in addition to their time spent there in research.

The process of establishing the partnership and the positive outcomes for both the organization and the students will be shared at the 2023 Association of Community Health Nurse Educators/Association of Public Health Nurses joint conference in San Diego this June.

The community agency never had students, therefore, the students were responsible for building relationships with the residents, assessing their needs and implementing interventions. The students were responsible for deciding how to implement and manage this clinical site, and utilized creative approaches in doing so. One unique approach used 聽for relationship building was to advertise the 鈥渨ellness clinic” by creating fliers that read 鈥淗elp Us Become Nurses.鈥�

This sentiment was also communicated to residents when they visited the students for screenings. Students desire to help empower the residents in their own healthcare led to the creation of a self-monitoring blood pressure station, in which the kiosk-style monitor was purchased with funding from the agency and the university, and set up in the agency’s community center. The partnership has been beneficial to the residents, as well as to student learning, and continues to be used as a clinical site for nursing students.

黑料不打烊 Department of Nursing faculty member Jacqueline DeBrew and Department of Strategic Communications faculty member Karen Lindsey have been notified their article, “Innovations in learning: The professional nursing project,” has been accepted for publication in Nursing Educational Perspectives, the research journal of the National League for Nursing.

Publication of the article is the culmination of a collaboration that began when DeBrew and Lindsey met during a group activity in new faculty orientation hosted by CATL in the fall of 2021.

When faced with creating a new Foundations of Nursing course for new students in the Accelerated BSN program, DeBrew struggled with an innovative way to tie everything together and demonstrate the role of the professional nurse. While attending the new faculty orientation, Lindsey shared with DeBrew details of an assignment that she uses within public relations and strategic writing classes to have students track an organization鈥檚 public image across social media platforms and evaluate brand positioning on websites. DeBrew adapted the assignment to create a professional nursing project for nursing students to evaluate healthcare organizations.

The collaboration on the assignment and subsequently the manuscript, led Debrew and Lindsey both to ask, 鈥渨hy don鈥檛 we do this more often?鈥�

They quickly recognized reaching out to colleagues who are experts in their respective fields proved valuable in the creation of this project and publication.聽 Both colleagues say that plans are being made to work together on future assignments, and hopefully bring their students together for an interdisciplinary learning activity.