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  Part I: Setting up and Planning The Missouri Action Poverty Simulation    Part One gives the overview and history of learning goals and history of this simulation, and how three nursing schools in Oregon Nursing Education collaborate to create this community health and cross-cultural experiential learning about living in poverty.   Student roles in the …

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  Part Two of the Poverty Simulation demonstrates the students’ actual experiences within the family, with service agencies, hospital and the local Jail. Family members forced to wait in lines. Some families experienced eviction from their homes. online resource for simulations

    Students reflect on their experiences of poverty in the simulation. Students give examples of how they understand the impediments and limitations of living in poverty can create a sense of being overwhelmed, and even in desperation. Please not examples of increased empathy, participants gained as a result of participating in the simulation.

  An in-depth conversation with Heather Voss about setting up and running the poverty simulation. She discusses the value of this experience for nurses and community service providers and the research on the impact of the simulation on their students. She also gives some behind-the-scenes advice to other schools about implementing this valuable experience for their …

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