Сòòò½APP nursing students will offer health screenings to the cityСòòò½APP™s homeless and need the publicСòòò½APP™s help.
The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 7 at St. BernadetteСòòò½APP™s Clinic, 409 St. John St., in Lafayette. It will focus on preventive care.
Students enrolled in the College of Nursing and Allied Health ProfessionsСòòò½APP™ Community Nursing course will provide blood pressure and oxygen level checks, body mass index calculations, bone density screenings, and diabetes information.
TheyСòòò½APP™ll also perform vision checks and provide free reading glasses to people who need them. Several companies that have partnered with the nursing college will provide lunch, blood sugar checks, socks, haircuts, snacks and rain ponchos.
Organizers call the event Giving HOPE Сòòò½APP“ Homeless Outreach Providing Essentials Сòòò½APP“ and they are turning to the public to help them secure those vital items, which include:
- lightly used or new menСòòò½APP™s tennis or walking shoes;
- light, neutral color blankets;
- to-go foods, such as granola bars;
- lightly used or new backpacks;
- little combs or brushes;
- bandages;
- mints or gum;
- small tissue packets;
- hand wipes;
- nail clippers; and
- gift certificates in small amounts for fast food restaurants.
Donations can be dropped off at V.L. Wharton Hall, Room 322B through Monday, March 5. Contact nursing instructor Jessica McCarthy at (337) 781-1197 with questions.