Belmont and Tennessee State Universities collaborated to administer flu shots to residents of the I. W. Gernert Towers in Edgehill during an October health fair. TSU nursing instructor Noble-Britton and Belmont Professor of Nursing Ruby Dunlap supervised TSU nursing students as they gave shots and checked blood pressures. Belmont provided the flu vaccines and supplies. Nearly two dozen residents received the flu shot. Belmont’s Health services has donated the materials for seven years.
Daily Archives: October 22, 2013
Pharmacy Students Active in Fight Against HIV/AIDS
Thirty-five members of Belmont’s Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA) and faculty walked in the Oct. 5 HIV/AIDS Walk for Nashville Cares and raised more than $1,700 through individual donations and a bake sale to benefit the organization. Nashville Cares provides life-saving services to Middle Tennesseans living with HIV/AIDS as well as offers education, prevention and awareness of HIV/AIDS.
SNPhA members attended an HIV 101 Seminar, during which a speaker from Nashville Cares spoke to members on the history of HIV/AIDS in the United States, the importance of education and prevention and the specific challenges that patients with HIV/AIDS face.
The students also hosted a unique Q&A session on Oct. 10 with Kevin Hartman, pharmacist and owner of Nashville Pharmacy Services. Hartman is AAHIVP-certified by the American Academy of HIV Medicine, meaning he is a pharmacy specialist in HIV care. Hartman is a great source of information regarding how pharmacists can better serve special populations of patients.