2008 Woodie Awards
Students to promote quality health care
Aidan McGuire
Issue date: 4/14/08 Section: News
Three nursing students have been selected to present their work at the South Carolina Public Health Association's annual conference in Myrtle Beach next month in hopes of harvesting support for legislative and policy change in order to guarantee access to quality health care for everyone.
Senior nursing majors Maigdlin Anderson, Gabrielle Bush and Ashley Keefe assembled a poster presentation titled "Hitchhiking to Healthcare." The presentation will take place May 21-23 during the annual conference of the South Carolina Public Health Association (SCPHA) in Myrtle Beach at the Springmaid Beach Resort and Conference Center.
"We are very proud of our students," Assistant Professor of Nursing and SCPHA member Julia "Marty" Hucks said. "They're going to make excellent nurses."
Anderson, Bush and Keefe used an assignment for their community health nursing class as an opportunity to determine the impact of the lack of transportation on healthcare clients.
For their study, the students investigated the needs of the clients of the Free Medical Clinic of Darlington County.
They identified risk factors, derived a community health nursing diagnosis and drafted a resolution for the crisis of a lack of transportation to health care, Anderson said.
"Our particular resolutions are very local at this time," Anderson said. "They focus primarily on the needs of the Pee Dee Region and Darlington County."
Some of the risk factors the students identified include the poverty statistics of the county, the number of cars owned in Darlington compared to how many people live there, and the availability and cost of public transportation, Bush said.
"Transportation (and) access to care is a huge problem in Florence and Darlington counties," Bush said.
The trio drafted a resolution that will be presented in front of three professional nursing organizations, the South Carolina League of Nursing, the South Carolina Nurses Association and the South Carolina Student Nurses Association, Anderson said.
"(The resolution) urges the professional nursing organizations to become politically active and rally for an increase in public access to the health care that the people need," Anderson said.
Bush said she's excited about presenting the project and hopes it will serve as a catalyst to help those in need.
Anderson, Bush and Keefe's work will contribute to the overall purpose of the SCPHA conference, which is to provide "a better understanding of what public health is," according to SCPHA.com.
Senior nursing majors Maigdlin Anderson, Gabrielle Bush and Ashley Keefe assembled a poster presentation titled "Hitchhiking to Healthcare." The presentation will take place May 21-23 during the annual conference of the South Carolina Public Health Association (SCPHA) in Myrtle Beach at the Springmaid Beach Resort and Conference Center.
"We are very proud of our students," Assistant Professor of Nursing and SCPHA member Julia "Marty" Hucks said. "They're going to make excellent nurses."
Anderson, Bush and Keefe used an assignment for their community health nursing class as an opportunity to determine the impact of the lack of transportation on healthcare clients.
For their study, the students investigated the needs of the clients of the Free Medical Clinic of Darlington County.
They identified risk factors, derived a community health nursing diagnosis and drafted a resolution for the crisis of a lack of transportation to health care, Anderson said.
"Our particular resolutions are very local at this time," Anderson said. "They focus primarily on the needs of the Pee Dee Region and Darlington County."
Some of the risk factors the students identified include the poverty statistics of the county, the number of cars owned in Darlington compared to how many people live there, and the availability and cost of public transportation, Bush said.
"Transportation (and) access to care is a huge problem in Florence and Darlington counties," Bush said.
The trio drafted a resolution that will be presented in front of three professional nursing organizations, the South Carolina League of Nursing, the South Carolina Nurses Association and the South Carolina Student Nurses Association, Anderson said.
"(The resolution) urges the professional nursing organizations to become politically active and rally for an increase in public access to the health care that the people need," Anderson said.
Bush said she's excited about presenting the project and hopes it will serve as a catalyst to help those in need.
Anderson, Bush and Keefe's work will contribute to the overall purpose of the SCPHA conference, which is to provide "a better understanding of what public health is," according to SCPHA.com.
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