The Pryor Times

Local News

Discussion

Add a comment on this story
July 12, 2012

Nurses travel from Florida for UKB youth health fair and cultural exchange

The United Keetoowah Band is partnering with Florida Atlantic University to sponsor a health fair and cultural exchange in July.

John Lowe— RN, PhD, FAAN and Wymer Distinguished Professor at FAU— said he designed the program as an option for nursing students to complete the requirements for nursing courses that require students to receive an experience in planning and implementing a community-based program in health promotion and disease prevention.

 For the past six years, every semester Lowe has brought a group of registered nurses from Boca Raton, Fla. that is working on advanced degrees to work in rural schools and in Native American communities to teach health education and other cultures.

The nurses teach physical fitness, nutrition/diabetes awareness, alcohol/drug/tobacco abuse, , first aid and safety and how to achieve a health career. Each block of instruction lasts approximately 45 minutes.

 They, also, share their individual cultures with the participants to make them aware of the larger world outside of the local community.

This year, the multi-national group of 42 nurses is from Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, Brazil, Trinidad, Pakistan and the United States.

 They are set up to be at Kenwood School in the cafeteria and gym July 17 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Stilwell satellite office July 18 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and at the UKB Complex in Tahlequah at the pavilion July 19 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

For more information, call Kathy White, executive assistant, at 918-458-6708.

Text Only | Photo Reprints
Local News