Abstract：
Educational strategies that allow students to experience patient care in both rural and urban settings are imperative to the recruitment and retention of nurses for medically underserved populations or health professional shortage areas. Two state schools of nursing (one urban-oriented and one rural-oriented) in the Mid-Atlantic region were awarded Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) project funding to educate nursing students and registered nurses in community-based primary care settings. This article will discuss an innovative rural-urban baccalaureate nursing student exchange model intended to increase understanding of enhanced RN roles in community-based primary care settings. Two project teams collaborated to create a new learning model, a rural-urban exchange, by implementing a Primary Care Camp. The camp included shared didactic content, reflection exercises, historical and cultural considerations, and clinical immersion to allow students in both programs to have on-site rural and urban learning experiences. Faculty collected informal voluntary student feedback through a debrief after their Primary Care Camp experience to assess their understanding of the enhanced RN Role in primary care and how it may affect their future nursing practice. Student feedback suggests that the students met project goals and appreciated the rural and urban exchange experience. This project is an innovative approach that offers guidance for implementing primary care education in a way that supports the current primary care RN role, builds the future workforce, and provides suggestions for replicability.
摘要：
允许学生在农村和城市环境中体验患者护理的教育策略对于为医疗服务不足的人群或卫生专业短缺地区招募和保留护士至关重要。大西洋中部地区的两所州立护理学校（一所面向城市，一所面向农村）获得了卫生资源和服务管理（HRSA）项目资金，以教育基于社区的初级保健环境中的护理学生和注册护士。本文将讨论一种创新的城乡学士学位护理学生交流模式，旨在增加对社区初级保健环境中增强的RN角色的理解。两个项目团队合作创建了一个新的学习模型，城乡交易所，通过实施初级保健营。营地包括共享的教学内容，反思练习，历史和文化的考虑，和临床沉浸，让学生在这两个方案有现场农村和城市的学习经验。教师在初级保健营经历后通过汇报收集了非正式的自愿学生反馈，以评估他们对初级保健中增强的RN角色的理解以及它如何影响他们未来的护理实践。学生的反馈表明，学生达到了项目目标，并赞赏农村和城市的交流经验。该项目是一种创新的方法，为实施初级保健教育提供指导，以支持当前的初级保健RN角色，建立未来的劳动力，并提供可复制性建议。
