Abstract
The Nursing Centre as a Collaborative Approach to Integrate Community Health Service and Nursing Education in Indonesia
Highlights
The Nursing Centre (NC) Indonesia was established from a collaboration between the nursing education institutions, health services and the local government in West Java Indonesia
The results showed that there is a mismatch between the theoretical basis and the practice of the NC in the three centres examined; the intended integration of community health services and nursing education could not be achieved at an optimal level as two NCs focus more on academic activities while one NC focus more on the health service
We argue that the discourse and implementation of a service learning approach, which includes experiential
Summary
The Nursing Centre (NC) Indonesia was established from a collaboration between the nursing education institutions, health services and the local government in West Java Indonesia. Its purpose is to integrate health services, nursing education and research through the optimal usage of a diverse range of potential resources in the community health system. Despite running since 2002, it has been difficult to measure the effectiveness of the NC because of a lack of consistent concepts and instruments. This research sought to establish the theoretical basis and operational components of the NC in Indonesia and to develop a framework for how this can be evaluated
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