On real talk, community nursing is nowhere near pointless. Now, during this fourth and last semester of nursing school, I realized how important community nursing is and how great of an impact a nurse can make on a community. We can change lives and I think my community group and I did just that.
Over the past several months, my community group and I have been working with the Infant Mortality Program out of Highland Park (check the links for past blogs). For those of you who do not know of Highland Park, HP is close to be considered a third world community. Jobs are inexistent, educations is low, teen pregnancy is high, crime is high, police presence is low, there is a lack of access to health care facilities, there is no library, parks are run down, house are torn up and abandoned, and the list goes on. I am from Detroit and people think that I have it bad... People have not seen Highland park.
So basically, my clinical group and I have been working to decrease the infant mortality of Highland Park through education and support. We set up donations for newborn families and for basic everyday day items at school. We raised some money and purchased items in Highland Park which were used to make our "Healthy Home Kit". We created an educational class titled, "Healthy Homes, Healthy Families." where we taught expecting families and newborn families about basic newborn care and home safety. At the end of the class we gave out our "Healthy Home Kit" which included everything from laundry detergent to teething rings. It was a great experience and am blessed to have been apart of my community group and IMP.
Shout out to my favorite ladies in Madonna Nursing!
-Kurt Belen
You guys did such an awesome job with your community project; you should be proud of yourselves!
ReplyDeleteps Congrats on winning the Hometown Heroes award!!!
this is awesome!
ReplyDeleteBrain - Thank you Brian! We all are heroes and I know you have been a hero of mine for a while. haha
ReplyDeleteCarla - Youre awesome! hehe
Well done, Kurt! I recall feeling as you did initially about Community Health Nursing & later realized the same things you did. It later became one of my favorite clinical rotations because of all the resources I learned about & shared and the impact I know we had on our patients. :)
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