Congrats to Hybrid Cohort 4!

As of July 2011, our fourth hybrid Gateway cohort is finishing their final Nursing class! Click on the photo to enlarge this group shot from their Orientation in April of 2010.

Eastlake Health Fair

Gateway students participated in a community event "Eastlake Family Festival & Health Fair" on Saturday, February. 20th. They sponored a booth on nutrition, tobacco awareness & B/P screening. These activities were focused on health promotion and disease prevention. It was well attended by the East Lake community.

Foot Clinic During Project Homeless Connect 2010

On January 29 a group of Gateway nurses from cohort 3 were part of a large number of Chattanooga volunteers at Project Homeless Connect, a one-day event to provide on-the-spot, one-stop help to the homeless and those in danger of becoming homeless. Hundreds of men, women and children crowded into the National Guard Armory for services that ranged from legal advice, medical and dental care, and our own nurses providing a much-in-demand foot clinic.

Gateway Nurses Assist with Smoking Cessation

Elaine Cook, Erika Foppiano, Brandon Posey and Martha Weeks collaborated on a smoking cessation exhibit in the lobby of the UTC University Center on January 14. The exhibit focused on the health risks of smoking and the benefits smokers receive when they quit, from twenty minutes to fifteen years later. The display also included video excerpts from Scene Smoking, a documentary distributed by the Centers for Disease Control.

World AIDS Day

Many thanks to Gateway students Aimee Satterfield, Erin Mabry, Rebecca Roberson, Joan Rankin, and Stephanie Sutton for participating in UTC's World AIDS Day at this very busy time of year! These five students earned credit for their community health group project by developing and presenting an educational outreach to UTC students in the University Center. The group also collected student surveys to identify myths and misconceptions about HIV/AIDS that are still prevalent on UTC's campus.

Gateway Students Attend Gerontology Conference

Gateway students joined well over a hundred other UTC students and faculty at the annual Fall Syposium for the School of Nursing on November 21. The session topics included Gerontology Nurse Agency from Dorothea Orem’s framework, legal/financial issues for the older adult, medication management and the older adult, physiological changes and the older adult, and loss/depression.

At left, Karen Sarnosky examines some of the several dozen medications that senior citizen "Tom" has to deal with every day.

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