At the UK College of Nursing, community engagement occurs by connecting our faculty, staff, and students with individual patients and patient groups, health care providers and their institutions, professional organizations, schools, businesses, and communities to address priority needs.

These needs include enhancing health, education, and the environment, which in turn enhances quality of life. These relationships between representatives of the college and our larger stakeholder communities provide for a mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.

Examples of engagement activities by college faculty and staff include:

• leadership roles on health-related community boards
• development of community gardens
• community education about influenza and other communicable diseases
• community education on smoking, radon, and other carcinogens
• disaster preparedness exercises
• health screening and education fares for targeted populations
• vaccination clinics