Cynthia Clark RN, PhD
Example of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement
In 2001, our Nursing Leadership faculty team demonstrated commitment to Service-Learning and Civic Engagement philosophies by being the first nursing course in our baccalaureate program to incorporate Service-Learning pedagogy into the curriculum. Since then, we have continued to embrace these concepts by promoting service and by encouraging students to become civically engaged to make a difference in our Idaho communities. One example is a project conducted by Dr. Clark and her nursing leadership students in Spring 2006. Senior nursing students (Nancy Hunt, Jayne Josephson, Jodi Oliver, and Becky Swainston) collaborated with school nurse, Betsy Howard RN, BSN to lead a Childhood Wellness and Nutrition Project at Chaparral Elementary School in Meridian, Idaho. The project included compiling health data and teaching healthy life skills and sound nutrition to elementary school children. The project also included acquiring two grants for fitness equipment and a fitness trail for the school. A $20,000 grant funded by Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation will pay for new playground equipment and a new fitness trail-- ground-breaking for these initiatives occurred winter 2007.
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