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| Kaitlyn Yule staffs a Winter Olympics event for Cleveland-area schoolchildren |
FPB’s service learning culminates in the senior year with the 10-week Senior Capstone project, where students have an intensive experience in community-based health care with vulnerable populations such as Native Americans, migrant workers, the Australian aboriginal community, and the urban poor.
The experience provides senior BSN students with the opportunity to analyze and apply concepts in health and health care, health policy and finance, culture, epidemiology, interventions, ethics, and more.
In November 2009, seven BSN seniors participated in hosting the annual Longfellow Winter Olympics at a local high school to develop their leadership, teaching, and management skills and to demonstrate how fitness can be fun. Another group of seniors recently held an immunization fair in conjunction with a local health department, which resulted in three times as many people receiving flu shots than in the previous year. And yet another group ran a summer sports camp to empower and educate economically disadvantaged youth on various health issues.
