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BSN Community Class Students help at this year’s All College Day

BSN, Health Programs - All, Nursing

This year, several students enrolled in the Community Practicum course participated in the Biometric Screening and Flu Shot sessions at All College Day. This experience allowed the students to work with the community of SPC employees.

By participating in this activity, students were able to apply the concepts and skills in community health of health promotion and education. Students participated in health screenings, blood pressure checks and education with employees who attended these sessions.

Mr. Mark-Anthony Bailey, the employee wellness coordinator, commented about the student’s participation.

“Their skill, professionalism and expertise allowed us to serve over 500 employees through the Biometric Screening and Flu Shot process in a timely, organized and smooth manner,” he said. “They were willing to change roles as needed and because of them, employees were able to quickly return to their training sessions. Our outside vendor even offered some of them part-time employment as they was so impressed with their performance.”

Our program is very proud of these students and their representation of SPC’s College of Nursing.

BSN Community Class recognizes World Hunger

Louis Briggs
Health Programs - All, Nursing

On April 14, forty-one BSN Community Nursing students participated in a hunger banquet to increase awareness of the global hunger faced by many individuals in our country and worldwide. It is estimated that more than 795 million people in the world are undernourished. Oxfam America, an agency that provides foods to these individuals, developed the hunger banquet exercise as a means to bring to light the plight faced by these individuals.

Yvette Adames & Justin Taylor serving themselves
Yvette Adames & Justin Taylor serving themselves their bowl of rice.

For this experience, students are assigned an income level of low, moderate, and high to mimic the world’s economic distribution. Based on this random assignment, the students are provided a meal based on their designation. Students who were deemed low income retrieved their water from a bowl and were given yellow rice in a bowl. Middle income students were given a bottle of water and a bowl of rice and beans. The high income students were seated at a table and received rice, beans, chicken, bread, dessert, and water in a glass. This exercise lead to a lively discussion among our students about world hunger and ways that we can make a difference in our own communities as future nursing leaders.

Nursing faculty learn creative ways to engage students

Nursing faculty at SPC learn creative ways to engage students
Health Programs - All, Nursing

On Feb. 8, 2016, the nursing faculty held their annual Almeda Martin & Nancy Hartley Endowed Chair Event.

Each February, the College of Nursing devotes a day for the faculty to come together for professional development. This year’s event was “Best Practices for Communicating with Students.”

Instructional Technology Specialist Alan Shapiro and Instructional Technology Manager  Michelle Piper from SPC’s Online Learning and Services presented several methods by which faculty can engage students by using the available communication resources within MyCourses.

MyCourses tips for faculty

Faculty learned how to:

  • use Intelligent Agent which is an automated reminder
  • how to send video messages to their students
  • how to design effective announcements on their course home page

Nursing faculty were excited to learn about these available features in MyCourses. Many were eager to begin employing them in their online courses this semester.

The College of Nursing faculty are committed to creating a presence in their online classes to promote student satisfaction, retention and success.