Keywords

Clinical Placement, Community Health, Interdisciplinary Nursing Education, Population-Based Health, Therapeutic Riding

 

Authors

  1. Hamilton, Mashawna R.
  2. Delaney, Elizabeth
  3. Hall, Kelly

Abstract

Abstract: Community nursing clinical experiences are essential to the education of BSN prelicensure students. Because of limited traditional community clinical sites, faculty must identify innovative, nontraditional community sites that provide quality experiences. Faculty at Ohio University identified a unique opportunity to provide a multidisciplinary collaborative community clinical rotation in conjunction with the Center for Therapeutic Riding Center located at the Ohio Horse Park. Nineteen senior BSN students participated in a six-week community clinical experience caring for a variety of vulnerable populations participating in the therapeutic riding program. Faculty and students responded positively to the experience.