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Ellen Jones, ND, FNP, APRN¹, E. Jayne Lutz, MS, APRN, BC², Laurie Kennedy-Malone, PhD, APRN, BC¹, Jie Hu, PhD, RN¹, Lois VonCannon, MSN, APRN-BC¹, Mary Bannon, MSN, RN¹, Jacqueline Debrew, MSN, RN¹, Betsy Lehman, MS, APRN, BC¹, Emelia Amoako, PhD, APRN, BC¹, and Susan Fuller, MSN, APRN-BC². (1) Community Practice, The University of North Carolina @ Greensboro, P.O. Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170, 336-334-4890, ellen_jones@uncg.edu, (2) Community Practice Department, University of North Carolina Greensboro School of Nursing, 319 Moore Building, PO Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170

The UNCG School of Nursing Health Centers exist to provide “Service-Learning” for graduate and undergraduate nursing students while offering health programs and services for a population of elderly and disabled adults who are medically underserved. Three of the five Nurse Managed Health Centers are in partnership with The Greensboro Housing Authority and two are Housing and Urban Development Section 8 properties which house older adults. As part of the undergraduate curriculum, baccalaureate nursing students have a clinical focus that requires a community clinical focus. Undergraduate students are assigned to one of the four clinical sites for one 15 week semester. During the semester, students offer health promotion and prevention activities as well as home visitation to the residents. The Health Centers offers opportunities for undergraduate students to learn responsibility, autonomy, and caring as they develop leadership and community nursing skills. Many of the residents are visited in their homes. Home visitation allows the opportunity for more in-depth health education, counseling, and physical assessment, as well as comprehensive evaluation of environmental safety risks. Graduate nursing students provide more in-depth health promotion and prevention activities such as health fairs, health screenings, individualized health education, and nutritional counseling, especially with residents managing chronic illnesses and conditions such as hypertension, obesity, Type 2 diabetes and depression. Health education classes are held on a variety of topics requested by the residents. Interdisciplinary health fairs are held each spring. Outcomes have been positive for community participants and students.

Learning Objectives:

• 1)Develop unique Public Health Nursing clinical experiences for undergraduate and graduate students within the community.
• 2)List 5 innovative health promotion activities undergraduate and graduate nursing students can perform in a community setting based on Healthy People 2010 Objectives.
• 3)Evaluate the effectiveness of programs from both and academic and community perspectives.

Keywords: Community-Based Health Promotion,

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No

Recorded presentation