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An apple a day may keep diabetes away
Sac State nursing students gave children at risk for diabetes a fun lesson in how to eat right and stay fit this summer. “Project: Healthy Kids,” a series of free day camps in Sacramento's Oak Park and Del Paso Heights neighborhoods and in the town of Galt offered learning activities, games and fitness classes promoting healthy lifestyles.
The five-day camps for five- to 10-year-olds were designed to make kids aware of healthy eating habits, which they may not learn about otherwise. The program involved 60 nursing students who created the curriculum, wrote proposals to fund the project, produced marketing strategies and worked at the camps. The nursing students are now conducting follow-up research with program participants to evaluate the program's effectiveness.
The program is a partnership of the Sacramento State Division of Nursing, Health Net of California, and the Community Resources Project WIC (Women, Infants, Children).
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Spring 2005 l Capital University Journal
Prepped and ready Full Story
Co-op program helps meet need for new nurses
By Frank Whitlatch
Unlike many nursing students across the country, Suzanne McGee's work experience offers her a measure of stability. Instead of the usual rushing from one clinical placement to another, she's been working at Kaiser Permanente in Roseville for the last six months through Sac State's unusual cooperative education program in nursing. She gets academic credit for paid work in the Intensive Care Unit, exactly the type of work she hopes to do after graduation.
