Our Global Backyard: A Worldly View of Community Health

Community Health

Committee Goals 2007 - 2008

* Highlight Community Health projects being done by states and schools.

* Provide a "How to" guide for developing projects

* Provide web links to community groups that can help with project development

* Provide information for "Making it Fit."

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
Candace Biberston, Chair
Lauren Brewer
Heather Hyatt-Dolan

Welcome to Making it Fit! 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. In the following months, you will find advice for each month of the year. If you already have things that work for you, then stick to them! But we wanted to have different options for those who get bored easily or who might be picky and not like a lot of the traditional ways of working out, eating healthy, or reducing stress.

March

February

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