What is it about?

This article describes Clinical Nurse Specialist Students' civic engagement experiences. Included activities are a mass casualty experience with 180 BSN students and a community collaborative-MESH on a military base.

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Why is it important?

This article is important because Clinical Nurse Specialists need leadership experiences outside the four walls of health care and this is a great example of experiences that can provide leadership facilitation opportunities for students!

Perspectives

Working with Clinical Nurse Specialist Students, BSN students, faculty and an Emergency Preparedness collaborative provided exceptional disaster readiness experiences for students and faculty in the real world hospital, subway, and military base.

Dr. Jennifer L Embree
Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis

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This page is a summary of: Civic Engagement Experiences of Students Preparing for Roles as Clinical Nurse Specialists, Nursing Forum, July 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/nuf.12170.
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