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Clinical Observation Of Shawnee Mission School

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I had my clinical rotations at Westwood View Elementary. The school is under the Shawnee mission School District (SMSD). It is located in the city of Westwood, North East corner of Shawnee mission. The school’s population is about 305 children, ages 5 - 11 and 12, ranging from kindergarten –sixth graders. The school has only one school nurse. Westwood community is not an economically deprived area, so, the children have enough resources for their education.
Some of the kids go through emotional and psychological stress which come from Parents divorce, parents wanting their children to be the best in class, making them go above and beyond their academic limits My main involvement with this agency was teaming up with the school’s nurse to provide care for the students. I was able to use the nursing process in providing care to those young students. They would come in with all sorts of complaints, like an abrasion on their skin, or with a sore throat, or some of the students who have ADHD, who usually take their medications at certain times come in …show more content…

Almost all the students that were tested had the same result. I knew about this from the “glow germ” activity that we performed for the students. The aim of this activity is to teach students the importance of handwashing. How the activity works, we come to the class with the glow kit which comprises of a box with an inbuilt mercury light called Glitter Bug Lamp. It also contains the Glitter Bug Potion, which is a UV disclosing lotion. This lotion is the pretend germs which the kids will apply on their hands, it glows when exposed to the glitter bug lamp. Then, they’ll be asked to go scrub their hands and wash off the germs with soap and water. When they finish washing their hands, they bring it under the lamp for inspection, that is when they’ll see the parts left

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