Inter-Professional Community Training and Partnerships a A View from USA Academic Nursing Students

Abstract

Problem: Health promotion in underserved populations is a major emphasis among academic medical centers in the USA as they prepare the future provider workforce for community based inter-professional healthcare delivery. Approach: This paper provides a survey report of nursing student#x2019;s response regarding their participation at an interprofessional community partnership health fair and research project (The 2015 Costa Layman Health Fair and Cardiometabolic Risks in Hispanic Farmworkers (CHARM) Study). With a full complement of inter-professional faculty and student teams, its core mission is to provide student training and to promote the health of the Hispanic farm-workers.