Author : April Joy M. Gascon
Release : 2011
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Book Synopsis From Roll to Role by : April Joy M. Gascon

Download or read book From Roll to Role written by April Joy M. Gascon. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Service learning has been adopted and adapted by many academic institutions mostly in the United States for the past two decades. It has been recognized as a valuable tool to student learning and also to awaken their community service ideals. Most of the studies on service learning focused on how service learning activities were implemented and its impact on the students and the community. There are also some reports about barriers that hinder its application as well as limitations. Although it has positive outcomes to students, faculty, institutions and the community, some view it to be burdensome and time consuming. It has also made a notion that it stresses the differenc between those who have and those who do not have. Integrating studies from various university programs, the studies on service has been documented in business, management, education and in high school curriculum. In nursing, questions are still raised if it has to subscribe to service learning as claims that it has always been in nursing persists. Few nursing institutions that ascribe to servie learning made researches that dwelt on student experiences. Additionally, most available researches on service learning were descriptive in nature, done quantitatively using surveys; some were qualitative using interviews and case studies. Service learning may have been perceived to be more advantageous that not, but only a small number of studies were done in the Philippines and none was done yet relative to service learning in nursing. Service as a feature of nursing cannot be questioned, but with the changes and challenges arising from globalization, service in nursing has to be revisited. Rolling from the routines of basic Philippine nursing education, the conception of a baseline data that will express the need for service learning is essential. Looking at the potential of service learning in the Philippine nursing education will help make us recognize its role in preparing competent nurses and in formalizing its integration in the Philippine nursing curriculum. As a teaching-learning method, service learning has been recognized in several academic institutions and programs since late 1990's. Even though it has been strongly recognized to provide positive outcomes, there is need to assess its potentials in an academic setting where service is believed to be a mainstay and in another locale. With the use of mixed methods approach to researh, this paper adds to the available Philippine literature on service learning and will provide baseline data on the need to take on service learning as a strategy in educating future nurses. This study also contributes to the available international researches on service learning which can be used for possible comparative studies to determine similarities and differences across cultures. This study assessed and analyzed the neeed for service learning in the nursing curriculum context. This has looked into the key persons - students and nurse educators, who will play important roles in the service learning program when integrated in the Philippine nursing education system. On the one hand, the study characterized the contemporary Filipino nursing students according to their servie orientation and value priorities which can provide reasons for why service learning has to be considered. Factor analysis of why, when and how these students render service revealed that they can be grouped according to their nine service styles. Their responses to the vignettes were used to delineate their priorities in serving the self or others. Using phenomenology on the other hand, the study also surface the nurse professoriate's concepts of service that highlighted their desire to transmit their service ideals to their students; it also gave a view on their assessment of their present students' directions to serve as well as the role potentialities of service learning when integrated in the nursing curriculum. Additionally, this study identified some service learning elements used in the practice of teaching nurses in the Philippines that could be a jumpstart in formalizing the service learning component of educating future nurses.