Creating clinical experiences in a social work agency on aging.

ABSTRACT

This article describes the growth of a relationship between the fields of social work and nursing that developed into a positive learning experience for senior nursing students. It highlights the growing awareness, complicated by the scarcity of clinical sites, of the importance of including content in curricula related to community-dwelling older adults. The author was able to prepare student assignments from a social work agency on aging. The outcomes of this process included meeting the objectives of community health nursing and a new awareness by nursing students of the collaborative roles of nursing and social work in the community.