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Nursing students go back to high school
Kristen Humphrey
Issue date: 6/2/06 Section: News
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It's often said that high school is the last place anyone would willingly return. Anyone, that is, with the exception of University of Washington, Tacoma Nursing students.
UWT Nursing students taking the Health, Communities and Populations course recently visited Sumner High School to present two modules - binge drinking and dating violence. The student projects are in place to identify and assess a community's strengths and needs.
"We are working in collaboration and partnership to mobilize and bring about change in communities," said Karen Landenburger, registered nurse and UWT associate professor.
According to Landenburger, binge drinking with teens and adults is a national problem. Students as young as eight, nine and 10 years old bring vodka to school in water bottles.
On May 18, UWT nursing students and registered nurses Jolene Hoke, Steve Rodacker, Hitomi Nakagawa and Amy Hall presented their module on binge drinking to Sumner High School freshman in Taylor's Foundations of Fitness class. The challenge was more than simply presenting their material to a rowdy class of 14 and 15 year old freshman.
The grading on these modules is comprehensive. Students develop a whole teaching module. They preview it with other UWT nursing students before ever presenting to students at Sumner High School. Students are also graded on how they act and interact within their group, their ability to maintain control of the classroom in which they're teaching and so on.
One way Hoke, Rodacker, Hitomi and Hall successfully interacted with the freshman class was a yarn exercise. Sumner H.S. students were instructed to say one thing they would do instead of drinking or why they choose not to drink when they were thrown the ball of yarn. Before they threw the yarn to the next person, they were to hold on to a string of the yarn.
Students gave reasons such as not wanting to lose their license and not wanting to jeopardize their future. At the end of the exercise, the string of yarn was zigzagged between all the students. UWT Nursing students told them they had made a network, a support group to not a support group to not drink.
UWT Nursing students taking the Health, Communities and Populations course recently visited Sumner High School to present two modules - binge drinking and dating violence. The student projects are in place to identify and assess a community's strengths and needs.
"We are working in collaboration and partnership to mobilize and bring about change in communities," said Karen Landenburger, registered nurse and UWT associate professor.
According to Landenburger, binge drinking with teens and adults is a national problem. Students as young as eight, nine and 10 years old bring vodka to school in water bottles.
On May 18, UWT nursing students and registered nurses Jolene Hoke, Steve Rodacker, Hitomi Nakagawa and Amy Hall presented their module on binge drinking to Sumner High School freshman in Taylor's Foundations of Fitness class. The challenge was more than simply presenting their material to a rowdy class of 14 and 15 year old freshman.
The grading on these modules is comprehensive. Students develop a whole teaching module. They preview it with other UWT nursing students before ever presenting to students at Sumner High School. Students are also graded on how they act and interact within their group, their ability to maintain control of the classroom in which they're teaching and so on.
One way Hoke, Rodacker, Hitomi and Hall successfully interacted with the freshman class was a yarn exercise. Sumner H.S. students were instructed to say one thing they would do instead of drinking or why they choose not to drink when they were thrown the ball of yarn. Before they threw the yarn to the next person, they were to hold on to a string of the yarn.
Students gave reasons such as not wanting to lose their license and not wanting to jeopardize their future. At the end of the exercise, the string of yarn was zigzagged between all the students. UWT Nursing students told them they had made a network, a support group to not a support group to not drink.
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