Service-Based Learning in Nursing: A Rodgersian Evolutionary Concept Analysis (Review Study)

Service-based learning, as a kind of experiential learning, connects nursing education to the real world. The purpose of the present study was to examine the concept of service-based learning in nursing by Rodgers's Evolutionary Concept Analysis Method.
In this review study, English-language databases including Science Direct, Medline, Cochrane library and CINAHL, and Persian-language databases like Scientific Information database were searched by a three-step searching method from 2005 to 2015. To demonstrate a conceptual model of service-based learning, Rodgers's Evolutionary Concept Analysis Method was used.
Of a total of 6543 articles identified, 165 were included into the second step, of which only 32 were relevant to the field of nursing. Using the given answers to the 9 questions raised in the study, the new approach to the service-based learning model was developed.
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