CCPH Fellows 2002/2003: Joyce Krothe

Dr. Joyce Splann Krothe is an Associate Professor at Indiana University School of Nursing and has served as the Director of the Bloomington Campus since 1992. She also serves as the Project Director for the Brown County Health Support Clinic, a nurse managed clinic in rural Indiana. Her area of teaching expertise is community health nursing. She received her BSN degree from Columbia University and her MSN and DNS degrees from Indiana University. She is active in a number of professional organizations; and has made presentations and published related to utilization of a community development model to address issues related to access to health care for uninsured and under insured populations. Dr. Krothe spent a sabbatical leave at Massey University, New Zealand in 2000 and served as a consultant to faculty colleagues at the university to establish the first nurse managed clinic in the country. Collaborative research with Massey University related to outcomes of nurse managed services is ongoing through funding from an International Exchange Affiliation grant. In 2002, Dr. Krothe received the Thomas Ehrlich Award for Service-Learning from Indiana University for excellence in the development and practice of community service-learning and its integration into the university curriculum.

Project Title

A community development model--the foundation of campus-community partnerships

Project Description

Lessons learned from utilizing a community development model to establish a nurse-managed clinic in a rural community as a service-learning project will be extended and analyzed for applicability to other communities and nursing education programs. A community development model focuses on the achievement of community goals and includes a true partnership in which power and decision making are shared by community members and the academic community. The model assumes that desired community change occurs through broad participation by community members.

A monograph will be developed to extend implementation of a community development model from nursing to other academic disciplines designing service-learning projects. The information can be used as a guide for curricular development, planning and evaluation.

Extension of a community development model for service-learning from nursing to other academic disciplines has the potential to build sustained community-campus partnerships and result in learning outcomes for students that exceed the parameters of an isolated project in a given semester. It also provides an opportunity for students to enhance the civic and social responsibility components described as essential to service-learning in education. This project will advance the concept of community development as a foundation for sustainable service-learning education beyond the discipline of nursing.

Summary of Final Product

Please click here to view a summary of the monograph Lessons Learned from Utilizing a Community Development Model to Establish a Nurse Managed Clinic in a Rural Community. This monograph is under consideration for publication. When published we will provide a link to the publishing the journal.