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Developing a student-led health and wellbeing clinic in an underserved community: collaborative learning, health outcomes and cost savings

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Nursing, May 2015
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Title
Developing a student-led health and wellbeing clinic in an underserved community: collaborative learning, health outcomes and cost savings
Published in
BMC Nursing, May 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12912-015-0083-9
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Cynthia M. Stuhlmiller, Barry Tolchard

Abstract

The University of New England (UNE), Australia decided to develop innovative placement opportunities for its increasing numbers of nursing students. Extensive community and stakeholder consultation determined that a community centre in rural New South Wales was the welcomed site of the student-led clinic because it fit the goals of the project-to increase access to health care services in an underserved area while providing service learning for students. Supported by a grant from Health Workforce Australia and in partnership with several community organisations, UNE established a student-led clinic in a disadvantaged community using an engaged scholarship approach which joins academic service learning with community based action research. The clinic was managed and run by the students, who were supervised by university staff and worked in collaboration with residents and local health and community services. Local families, many of whom were Indigenous Australians, received increased access to culturally appropriate health services. In the first year, the clinic increased from a one day per week to a three day per week service and offered over 1000 occasions of care and involved 1500 additional community members in health promotion activities. This has led to improved health outcomes for the community and cost savings to the health service estimated to be $430,000. The students learned from members of the community and community members learned from the students, in a collaborative process. Community members benefited from access to drop in help that was self-determined. The model of developing student-led community health and wellbeing clinics in underserved communities not only fulfils the local, State Government, Federal Government and international health reform agenda but it also represents good value for money. It offers free health services in a disadvantaged community, thereby improving overall health and wellbeing. The student-led clinic is an invaluable and sustainable link between students, health care professionals, community based organisations, the university, and the community. The community benefits from the clinic by learning to self-manage health and wellbeing issues. The benefits for students are that they gain practical experience in an interdisciplinary setting and through exposure to a community with unique and severe needs.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 192 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 30 16%
Student > Bachelor 21 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 19 10%
Researcher 17 9%
Lecturer 13 7%
Other 47 24%
Unknown 45 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 47 24%
Medicine and Dentistry 34 18%
Social Sciences 23 12%
Psychology 13 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 4%
Other 23 12%
Unknown 45 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 August 2019.
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#5,992,282
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Outputs from BMC Nursing
#166
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Outputs of similar age
#67,608
of 267,127 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Nursing
#7
of 20 outputs
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