Student Work
Students in classes that are taught by HPC-associated faculty often are putting what they've learned in the classroom into a real-world exercise. Below are a few examples of this student work.
Applying Political Advocacy to Professional Nursing Scope of Practice and the Health Care Environment
NSG 354: Art and Science of Nursing
Students in Professor Melody Eaton's Art and Science of Nursing class (NSG 354) created a three-part blog dealing with health policy.
Guidlines for the assignment
- Analyze the process, impact and implications of a Health Policy Change for your own nursing practice
- Develop and implement a political action plan based on relevant health legislature
- Clarify personal/professional healthcare advocacy role through use of technology
Prenatal Care in Surrounding Areas
NSG 490: Healthy Health Policy Evaluation
This interprofessional elective has students use local data to develop professional posters and policy briefs based on that data to disseminate healthy health policy recommendations. The work displayed below is from Professor Maria deValpine's spring class. They used data to look at prenatal care in surrounding areas, including Augusta, Rockbridge and Rockingham counties.
MSC 4305
235 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807
