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Combining Health Promotion Classroom Lessons With Health Fair ActivitiesKathy Eliason, RN, MS, was a community health clinical nursing instructor at Elmira College during the health promotion program. Currently she contracts to teach tobacco cessation for the Finger Lakes Heart Institute of Arnot Ogden Medical Center (New York) and is a community health clinical nursing instructor at Mansfield University Department of Health Sciences Nursing Program
Alexandra True, RN, FNP, PhD, is a Northeast PTA president and a community volunteer with a focus on children and education through fundraising efforts for Family and Children’s Service of Ithaca and the Ithaca (New York) Public Education Initiative Minigrant program for teachers This article focuses on the important role of the school nurse in promoting healthy lifestyle choices through networking, resource identification, and working with community partners. "Everyone Is Healthy at Northeast" was a health promotion program designed and presented in two ways: classroom lessons and a health fair. There were interactive health promotion classroom lessons on topics such as proper hand washing, the effects of tobacco, and keeping one’s heart healthy. These lessons were enhanced by community partners in delivering the healthy lifestyle message through a variety of teaching methods: music, interactive games, and hands-on visuals. The health promotion education program culminated in a schoolwide health fair that showcased the healthy lifestyle choice information at various stations. "Everyone Is Healthy at Northeast" was a success and promoted healthy lifestyle choices through creativity, collaboration, and support from the entire school community.
Key Words: community partners • health fair • health promotion
The Journal of School Nursing, Vol. 20, No. 1,
50-53 (2004) |
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