Event by Nursing, others to help grad students' children
October 10, 2012
Children of Purdue graduate students can receive medical exams and shots, and their parents can learn health and nutrition facts, on Oct. 26 at the fourth Child Wellness Day led by the School of Nursing.
Child Wellness Day will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Purdue Village Community Center. The event provides well exams -- consisting of a complete physical exam, developmental exam, and nutritional assessment -- immunizations, flu shots, lead screenings, anemia screenings and hearing and vision screenings for the children. Nursing faculty and graduate students will perform the well exams. Thirty nursing students will help organize and staff the event.
Students from the Department of Nutrition Science will help with nutrition counseling. Students from the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences will provide hearing screenings. Others involved in the event include the North Central Nursing Clinics, Purdue Graduate Student Government, the Tippecanoe County Health Department and the West Lafayette D.A.R.E. officer. The D.A.R.E. program stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education.
The event, which served 93 children last year, will feature numerous education booths, some with presentations geared for small children.
Registration is recommended for the event and is available at http://www2.itap.purdue.edu/bs/Worklife/index.cfm?site=nursing/registration. The link may be visible only to eligible users once they log in.
