Addressing the Needs of Underserved Populations in Community Health Nursing Education

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Community health nursing that focuses on populations rather than individuals as clients is a concept that is challenging to teach. Nursing students at two centers of Texas Woman's University have been working with two diverse groups of populations that are considered underserved. One group is made up of Cambodian refugees who have been located in urban settings in Dallas, Texas. The second group, in a rural setting, is composed of migrant children who have moved with their parents to the area for agricultural work. They are mostly Mexican families. This article reports the means to use clinical sites to expose students to community‐level nursing of populations at risk while maintaining uniformity with the curriculum for the College of Nursing.

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