Community Health

Get Fit, Stay Fit: Wellness, Fitness, and Prevention

Committee Goals 2009 - 2010

1. Emphasize and encourage illness prevention and health maintenance
2. Extend the Shaping-Up competition in order to promote individual health
3. Emphasize a "go green" approach

Community health involvement by nursing students has become an important contribution to the health and well-being of the total community. Projects carried out at the local level by nursing students provide a service to the community while giving students an opportunity to utilize knowledge and skills.

Community Health Committee
Jill Beasley, Chair
Evette Eubanks
Carylin Holsey

This is an initiative put together by NSNA to encourage nursing students across the country to keep healthy and take the time to ensure that they eat right, exercise, and reduce stress. Keep watching for more tips on how to include healthy habits in your daily lives.Click here for more on the NSNA 2010 Shaping up Competition.

Community Assessment & Resources

• Disaster Preparedness Guidelines
• The Luminary Project: Nurses Lighting the Way to Environmental Health
• Healthy People 2010
• Do you know the needs of your community?
  Check out this great informative web site to plan a Community Health project in your community.
• Looking for a Community Health project? Try one from the American Red Cross.
  Review the ARC web page for ideas and projects you can work on.
• Center for Disease Control National Center for Health Statistics
• World Health Organization Website
• Help from the Homefront: Support Our Soldiers
• Tobacco Free Nurses Initiative
• Community Health Program Guidelines Booklet
• Earn academic credit for participating in NSNA Community Health Projects

Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing

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