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NUR291: Health Promotion

Papakole`a and Nursing

Papakolea

 

Overview

The community leaders of Papakole`a conducted a health needs assessment of their Native Hawaiian Homestead residents. Based on the results, project ideas emerged. Their focus is to promote ohana-health and aging-in-place safely - keeping the community together while providing education and access to healthcare.

Projects

Some are being made open to students enrolled in this course, including:

  • Health education: Write culturally appropriate, truly accessible articles for Papakole'a's newsletter (health column). Develop creative health curriculum and engaging activities to promote health literacy and prevention; deploy these with small groups of residents. (i.e.: preventing falls on the steep slopes of Papakolea)
  • Ohana Health Fair: an all-day event on Saturday, March 3, 2012
  • Community Garden: Near the neighborhood's schools, there is a 60’ x 80’ Community Garden, and it’s growing in the name of food sustainability. Harvests are for the kupuna, but as the garden grows, it will also serve the resource needs of the Community Kitchen and the entrepreneurial ventures of the residents. The health of community is tied to health of the land. Scheduling options: Monday - Friday 9am - 3pm.

For some of these,there are limited numbers of “slots” for students. You’ll be scheduled for ONE of these projects during your training sessions.

Training Sessions

Papakole'a's leadership is offering our students the gift of their mana'o. Cultural competency, an understanding of community, perspective on the contexts for healthcare and public health nursing, and our respective roles are learning objectives of their training sessions. These lessons will be invaluable for students throughout their study of nursing, in future service-learning in their careers. Some of the training curriculum modules include:

  • Native Hawaiian health
  • Aging in Hawaii
  • Cultural competence in health care
  • Cultural trauma
  • People and cultures of Hawaii

Although the training sessions usually add up to 14 hours, they will be collapsed into three sessions for you (6 hours, total).
Pick any time option, but you MUST go to sessions 1, 2 AND 3:

  • Session 1: Thursday, Feb. 2 (8:30am-10:20am OR 1:30pm-3:20pm)
  • Session 2: Thursday, Feb. 9 (8:30am-10:20am OR 1:30pm-3:20pm)
  • Session 3: Thursday, Feb. 16 (8:30am-10:20am OR 1:30pm-3:20pm)

All will be held at Chaminade; the room number will be announced in class.

STUDENTS PLEASE NOTE:

Registration for S-L will be done FOR YOU by the S-L Office.
You will be given a connection form to sign and a timesheet/evaluation AT TRAINING.