Experiential Learning

Community Engaged Learning at MacEwan University is a project-based teaching-learning strategy that connects classroom theory to challenges experienced in the “real world” by our Community Partners. 

No-Fee Partnership Opportunity –Working with teams of student consultant(s) in their third year of Nursing at MacEwan will work with organizations to design and complete a specified project over 13 weeks. We are seeking potential partners and projects. 

Third year nursing students will participate in five-week clinical placements in the community. The course runs every five weeks from Janurary to April 2024. We are looking for community partners with projects that nursing students can support. We are also looking for ongoing partners for this course.

NURS 377 is a clinical course that allows students to integrate community health concepts, selected theories, current evidence, and skills. Students collaborate with communities using a relational inquiry approach.

What you get – While we cannot guarantee a final functional project, the community partner organization will receive some type of final project deliverables by the end of the Fall term. The expected deliverable will vary depending on community partners needs.

How this works- Student groups (2-4 students per group) will be assigned to a community group/agency/school (hereafter referred to as community agency). In consultation with the faculty and in collaboration with the community agency and invested stakeholders, students will utilize the nursing process to develop and implement a health promotion project that meets the needs of the agency. The purpose is to provide students with an opportunity to complete a project intended to strengthen the capacity of an organization, group, or population to promote health.  The students are allocated 80-100 hours over the 5 weeks to focus on this work.  Ideally, students would be able to spend time in the agency (up to 2 days per week) to engage with the team and the population they serve. The long term goal of the partnership is a sustainable collaboration that can evolve into other projects within the organization or the development of an initiative that can be passed through subsequent student groups to build upon and develop.

Timing 

● Early- Dec, 2023  – Vetting of community partner and the instructor/Experiential Learning Facilitator will met with community partners to review their project

● Mid-Dec, 2023 – The instructor and Experiential Learning Facilitator will select community partners and inform them of the next steps.

● Jan, 2024 – Community partner is available to talk about their project with student teams. 

 ●  Jan- Apr, 2024– Students work on your project (Winter 2024 academic term).

Interested?- We welcome multiple submissions from a single organization. Please submit each separately. Organizations/business interested in participating can follow this link https://forms.gle/nr6FFz812R8G4e4s9 (or cut and paste it into your browser): to register. Barb Hudkins barb.hudkins@MacEwan.ca