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Valley Tech Hosts Aging Well Assessment Day

UPTON, Mass -– Blackstone Valley Tech's Post-Secondary Practical Nursing (LPN) program recently hosted an Aging Well Assessment Day at the school. The day-long clinical activity focused on health assessments of older adults living in the community independently and with chronic illness. Thirteen patient volunteers were each given head-to-toe health assessments including lifestyle, health and family history questionnaires along with a physical assessment of numerous body systems including the heart, lungs and skin. Information gathered by the students created a real-life learning environment helping the students understand the needs of older adults and how to help them maintain their health and independence. Throughout the course of the assessments, Practical Nursing students apply knowledge and skills emphasized in the practical nursing curriculum.

The Aging Well Assessment Day activity was created in response to a call from the National League for Nursing for nurse education to shift toward better preparing students to advance the health of the nation's elderly population. By focusing on goals such as the promotion of clinical decision-making in real-life encounters with older adults, the activity prepares students to manage and coordinate care in all health care settings.

"We received tremendously positive feedback from the thirteen volunteers in the post-assessment questionnaires," said LPN Program Coordinator Kathy Ashe, RN, certified nurse educator (CNE) and creator of the Aging Well Assessment Day. "Our students were repeatedly praised for their skill, compassion and willingness to learn and everyone was happy to participate for the mutual benefit to students and the health information received by patients. Having clinical experiences such as these is critical to the learning experience in Practical Nursing."

The learning activity is an important career ladder initiative resulting in collaboration with students in the Post-Secondary Practical Nursing program and Valley Tech's high school Health Service program students along with their respective instructors. Additionally, Valley Tech's Culinary Arts students assisted with food preparation and service providing lunch for all involved.

Valley Tech opened the LPN program in 2009 following Initial Status Approval from the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing and full approval from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

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