JSU nursing students entertain, inform at MES

MUNFORD About 68 Jacksonville State University nursing students dressed in blue scrubs were during a Munford Elementary School gym Thursday to foster illness awareness.Some were dressed as bananas, French fries, teeth as well as even Sparky a Fire Dog for a illness fair that promoted recognition about everything from germs to anti-bullying.The JSU students have been in their second semester of nursing school, that entails training in pediatrics.Its a first time weve ever done this here during Munford Elementary School, pronounced Dr. Kay Williams-Prickett, one of a JSU nursing instructors. We love it; it is a very pretty school.Williams-Prickett pronounced JSU nursing students additionally experience in a states Kid Check module as well as provide head-to-toe physicals as well as illness screenings for students in Calhoun County. However, this illness fair is a first of its kind.This is a great event for them to learn that nursing is not only a await profession that stays during a bedside, though we get to go out in to a community as well as do things that foster prevention as well as awareness, Williams-Prickett said.About 285 kindergarteners as well as first-graders visited a illness fair throughout a day, visiting any hire for 10 to 15 minutes.They all go to different stations around a gym as well as cover 10 different illness topics, JSU nursing instructor Jennifer Frank said.Those topics were: glow safety, water safety, house pet safety, pedestrian as well as bicycle safety, exercise, oral hygiene, palm washing as well as germs, anti-bullying, nourishment as well as stranger danger.Students who visited a palm washing as well as germ hire got to see how great a pursuit they did after seeing their hands through a use of a backlight. Deanna Barge, a JSU nursing propagandize student helping out during a anti-bullying station, pronounced she was having a great time with a students.We crumbled up a piece of paper as well as smoothed it behind out so they could see a wrinkles still left on there, Barge said. It lets them know that once you do something or say something you cant take it back.Barge pronounced a students during her hire additionally learned about playground etiquette and, many importantly, how to say theyre sorry.They know a lot about what bullying is as well as how to be nice, Barge said. They keep giving us hugs.The subsequent hire up was stranger danger, where students learned about staying away from strangers as well as people they do not know.JSU nursing students Blake Suter as well as Magen Edwards pronounced they, too, were astounded by how much students already knew about staying away from strangers.We have been letting them know there have been great strangers like police officers, firemen as well as nurses, Edwards said.Were telling them not to trust anyone they do not know, Suter added.Students were given tips on avoiding strangers who ask them to get in to their cars, suggest them candy or food, or ask them to help find a lost pet.Students were additionally given a chant to repeat for any strangers who try to approach them that had them yelling No! as well as that they were getting an adult.They love yelling, Suter said. I was unequivocally surprised. The kids knew a lot some-more than I thought. Theyre training us, too.Students were performing stop, dump as well as hurl drills during a glow reserve station, that was sponsored by a state Fire Marshals Office.Sparky a Fire Dog looked on as students were told about at-home glow drills as well as a importance of checking their glow alarms.Students additionally had a simulated glow situation in a form of tables as well as cardboard, where students would crawl through a room full of fume as well as touch on a doorway to see if it was hot. If a doorway was not hot, they could crawl through as well as get a glow hat.Were training them how to house pet dogs, as well as how to make a tree or make a turtle, Williams-Prickett said. She pronounced one of a main areas dogs attack is a face as well as neck, so a tree position requires you to stand true as well as still like a tree, or get down on all fours, as well as put your head between your legs as well as arms around your head.Im unequivocally impressed. These kids have been knowledgeable as well as thats a great thing as well as that equates to a parents have been doing a great pursuit during home, Williams-Prickett said. Zoe Butterworth, an MES first-grader, pronounced her favorite was a glow reserve station.I learned about fire, germs as well as exercise, she said. When a glow comes you get out a doorway as well as stop, dump as well as roll.Contact Aziza Jackson during ajackson@dailyhome.com. Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc

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