Transforming the curriculum while serving the community: strategies for developing community-based sites.

Developing community-based clinical opportunities for students is a challenge. At San Jose State University (SJSU) School of Nursing, faculty transformed the curriculum by developing community-based experiences directed by faculty and delivered by students during clinical practice. These innovative clinical experiences provide a structure to educate students and enhance the ability to bring health care to underserved people in a community. This article describes the structure and processes for implementing the new experiences and offers strategies to guide other faculty interested in developing community-based experiences.