December 6, 2017

Encouraging Healthy Habits at Head Start: Nutrition, Hand Hygiene & Physical Activity

Student Nurses: Terry Bui, Johnny Nguyen, Samantha Lee

Nurse Faculty: Ellie Marsh, MN, RN

Project Aim: To increase the healthy habits among the Head Start students through education on nutrition, hand hygiene and physical activity.

Based on our assessment and interviews with the teachers, we created three lesson plans for hand hygiene, healthy vs. unhealthy foods, and physical activity (dance). Our lessons incorporated various modes of communication, and the teachers interpreted into Spanish for us.