{"id":5399,"date":"2020-01-31T15:45:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T21:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=5399"},"modified":"2020-01-31T15:47:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T21:47:07","slug":"nursing-pharmacy-students-hold-flu-clinics-across-campus-and-in-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2020\/01\/31\/nursing-pharmacy-students-hold-flu-clinics-across-campus-and-in-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing, Pharmacy Students Hold Flu Clinics Across Campus and in Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-content\">\n<div class=\"td-featured-image-rec\">\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a class=\"td-modal-image\" href=\"https:\/\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flu-vaccine-clinic-at-Health-fair-scaled.jpeg\" data-caption=\"Pictured seated on left is Health Services Interim Director Krystal Huesmann and standing from left are DNP student Macy Ball, Health Services Nurse Practitioner Amy Guidera, Health Services Office Manager Gabriel Seals, with Belmont nursing student volunteers.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"entry-thumb ls-is-cached lazyloaded alignright\" title=\"Flu vaccine clinic at Health fair\" src=\"https:\/\/722694.smushcdn.com\/1292217\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flu-vaccine-clinic-at-Health-fair-696x928.jpeg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1\" sizes=\"auto, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) 1392px, (min-resolution: 192dpi) 1392px, 696px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flu-vaccine-clinic-at-Health-fair-696x928.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flu-vaccine-clinic-at-Health-fair-1392x1856.jpeg 1392w\" alt=\"Belmont staff and students at flu clinic\" width=\"186\" height=\"246\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flu-vaccine-clinic-at-Health-fair-696x928.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flu-vaccine-clinic-at-Health-fair-1392x1856.jpeg 1392w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/722694.smushcdn.com\/1292217\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flu-vaccine-clinic-at-Health-fair-696x928.jpeg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>During the fall 2019 semester, nursing and pharmacy students held 19 flu clinics across campus, administering flu vaccines to 759 members of the Belmont campus community. The clinics were coordinated by Health Services Interim Director Krystal Huesmann in collaboration with DNP student Macy Ball, Associate Dean of Nursing Dr. Martha Buckner and Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, Dr. Kendall Shultes. More than 70 students were involved in this effort.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Ball\u2019s DNP scholarly project is entitled \u201cCommunity of Immunity: A Process Improvement to Increase Influenza Vaccine Uptake.\u201d The project aims to increase influenza vaccine uptake among freshmen who reside at Belmont University and assess barriers and facilitators regarding the influenza vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the campus clinics, nursing students also participated in flu vaccine clinics for employees of the Nissan North America Headquarters in Franklin. Nine students participated in those clinics on four dates in October where more than 500 employees were vaccinated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the fall 2019 semester, nursing and pharmacy students held 19 flu clinics across campus, administering flu vaccines to 759 members of the Belmont campus community. The clinics were coordinated by Health Services Interim Director Krystal Huesmann in collaboration with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2020\/01\/31\/nursing-pharmacy-students-hold-flu-clinics-across-campus-and-in-community\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pharmacy","category-chs","category-nursing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5401,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions\/5401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}