{"id":346,"date":"2019-06-11T11:59:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T18:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/?p=346"},"modified":"2019-07-03T12:38:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T19:38:57","slug":"students-in-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/touchpoints\/students-in-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Students in Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Measles and Social Pediatrics<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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In 1919, as plans for the School of Nursing were coming to fruition, Canada was at the height of the devastating influenza outbreak that followed the First World War. Then, in 1927, Assistant Professor Mabel Gray\u2014who eventually took the role of director of the school\u2014published her research in The Canadian Nurse using a recent measles outbreak at UBC \u201cas an example of the nurse\u2019s work in this special field.\u201d She called her paper \u201cThe Place of the Public Health Nurse is Epidemiology.\u201d Now, even after seeing an abatement in measles through a decades-long program of prevention and immunization, the disease has made a comeback. These epidemics form the battlefields on which public health nurses wage their war against disease through educating, comforting, and protecting with immunization.<\/p>\n

The most recent measles outbreak reached Vancouver this past winter and the public school that was in the thick of it all was in the Ravensong Community Health area. One Friday in February, UBC nursing students in community (Social Pediatrics) stepped into action, assisting the public health nurses (PHN) in the school clinics.
\nSome students have also been conducting health promotion education on vaccination in a variety of settings in this area.<\/p>\n

The public health nursing mandate has always been prevention of communicable diseases through educating families and providing protection through immunizations. Nursing educators are also using the recent outbreak to underline theory, lecturing on communicable disease to nursing students during the winter session. It is also used as an example to illustrate nursing\u2019s role in management of outbreaks and to underline the importance of immunization.<\/p>\n

For further information about the importance of vaccinating for measles, watch the World Health Organization\u2019s fabulous video from 2004 available free online called \u201cFragile Lives\u201d revolving around one family\u2019s experience with measles in Ireland. (Part 4: Rejection\u00a0bit.ly\/WHOPart4<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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ITCH Awards<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Two of our recent MSN graduates, Raji Nibber and Patrina Lo, won first and third prizes for best student poster at Information Technology and Communications in Health (ITCH<\/a>) in Victoria on February 14, 2019. Thirty student posters were presented from Canada, US, and the UK. The best poster event was sponsored by Canada Health Infoway. It was a great night!<\/p>\n

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Patrina Lo and Raji Nibber pose with their winning posters at ITCH in Victoria on February 14.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Raji Nibber completed her Scholarly Practice Advancement Research (SPAR) in Aug 2018, and at ITCH, took first prize for her poster entitled:\u00a0A Rapid Review of Psychometric Properties of Instruments that Measure Informatics Competencies for Practicing Nurses<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Patrina Lo completed her thesis in Oct 2018, and won third prize for her poster entitled:\u00a0Patterns of Action Items in an Electronic Handover Tool<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Two other students presented posters: Jillisa Byard, MSN Oct 2018 and Abdul-fatuwa Abdulai, PhD student. Jillisa then presented her findings during a Canada Health Infoway Webinar on March 27, 2019.<\/p>\n

Submitted by Leanne M. Currie
\nAssociate Professor<\/p>\n

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New Electives<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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The principles for long-lasting satisfaction like social connectedness, expression of gratitude, living in the present, daily workout, and sufficient sleep, are essential for building an emotionally rich and balanced life. Around the world, educational institutions from elementary schools through post-secondary are introducing methods for building that balance right into the curricula. The School of Nursing\u2019s new electives offer additional tools for creating balance in the life of all students at UBC.<\/p>\n

Check out\u00a0NURS 180<\/strong>\u00a0Stress and Strategies to Promote Wellbeing<\/em>,\u00a0NURS 280<\/strong>\u00a0Human Sexual Health<\/em>, and\u00a0NURS 290<\/strong>\u00a0Health Impacts of Climate Change<\/em>\u00a0to see how the school is offering the UBC student community fresh initiatives for a balanced life:\u00a0nursing.ubc.ca\/electives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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