Abstract
Purpose: To present an exemplar of a teaching project for promoting population health through student teaching and applying the research process. Faculty will disseminate the teaching and learning strategies outcomes from the faculty and student perspectives.
Participants: 34 undergraduate pre-licensure nursing students enrolled into the health promotion practicum across the life span course completed this innovative population based clinical teaching practicum and scholarship innovation.
Methods:
The teaching projects process and implementation were to:
1. Collaborate and engage with community clinical partners to identify health promotion needs for a target population
2. Formulate learning outcomes for the health promotion teaching projects.
3. Develop a detailed outline of the health teaching projects reflective of the learning outcomes using evidenced based resources.
4. Implement the health promotion project for the target population.
5. Determine a process for evaluation of the health promotion project outcome with the target population.
6. Develop and disseminate an abstract and poster of the health promotion teaching project.
Results: The outcomes of this population-based teaching project guided the nursing students to develop competencies in teaching health promotion, develop an abstract and summarized the findings in a poster presented at a research expo event. Students defined a target population, they assessed priorities of the community and developed an action plan for the teaching projects. Additionally, students collaborated with relevant stakeholders. The students were engaged in the research process using a variety of scholarly inquiries to collect data and analyze data.
Conclusion/Implications. Using a variety of teaching projects, students developed their competencies in population health, research and scholarship. Students implemented the various methods of the research process and evidence based-practice to achieve their learning outcomes.
Notes
References:
https://www.aacnnursing.org/essentials
https://odphp.health.gov/healthypeople
https://sdgs.un.org/goals
Additional reference list included in the attached slide deck.
Sigma Membership
Alpha Omicron
Type
Poster
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Other
Research Approach
Other
Keywords:
Public and Community Health, Teaching and Learning Strategies, Health Equity or Social Determinants of Health, Nursing Education, Advanced in Education, Health Promotion
Recommended Citation
Samawi, Zepure and Murphy-Smith, Mary, "Innovative Teaching Strategies to Engage Students in Health Promotion Teaching and Research" (2025). Biennial Convention (CONV). 69.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/convention/2025/posters_2025/69
Conference Name
48th Biennial Convention
Conference Host
Sigma Theta Tau International
Conference Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Conference Year
2025
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Proxy-submission
Date of Issue
2025-12-08
Innovative Teaching Strategies to Engage Students in Health Promotion Teaching and Research
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Purpose: To present an exemplar of a teaching project for promoting population health through student teaching and applying the research process. Faculty will disseminate the teaching and learning strategies outcomes from the faculty and student perspectives.
Participants: 34 undergraduate pre-licensure nursing students enrolled into the health promotion practicum across the life span course completed this innovative population based clinical teaching practicum and scholarship innovation.
Methods:
The teaching projects process and implementation were to:
1. Collaborate and engage with community clinical partners to identify health promotion needs for a target population
2. Formulate learning outcomes for the health promotion teaching projects.
3. Develop a detailed outline of the health teaching projects reflective of the learning outcomes using evidenced based resources.
4. Implement the health promotion project for the target population.
5. Determine a process for evaluation of the health promotion project outcome with the target population.
6. Develop and disseminate an abstract and poster of the health promotion teaching project.
Results: The outcomes of this population-based teaching project guided the nursing students to develop competencies in teaching health promotion, develop an abstract and summarized the findings in a poster presented at a research expo event. Students defined a target population, they assessed priorities of the community and developed an action plan for the teaching projects. Additionally, students collaborated with relevant stakeholders. The students were engaged in the research process using a variety of scholarly inquiries to collect data and analyze data.
Conclusion/Implications. Using a variety of teaching projects, students developed their competencies in population health, research and scholarship. Students implemented the various methods of the research process and evidence based-practice to achieve their learning outcomes.
Description
Nursing students developed a primary health promotion teaching project in a variety of community health settings utilizing the principals of client education and elements used in a research process.