Question

As a school nurse, you conduct an assessment of the elementary school. Among your list of problems are inactivity, obesity, and lack of knowledge of healthy food choices. Develop a plan of action to help the school improve the health of its students. Evaluate which methods of assessment (quantitative and qualitative), intervention, and evaluation will be most appropriate to help change this specific environment.

Answer 1

As a school nurse, it's very important to help the students to improve their health. Quantitative method of assessment, intervention and evaluation will be the most appropriate to help change students specific environment. We can select the students randomly from the group of inactive, obese and lack of knowledge of healthy food choices.

Separate the students as two groups. For first group, schedule play activities and physical exercises everyday. Educate them to avoid junk foods. Help them to choose fresh vegetables, fruits and salads in their everyday meal . After a scheduled period of time, we can see the improvement in health of first group students. Then we can compare the two groups and evaluate their health status. This method is very helpful and make the students to understand easily to follow the healthy habits and lifestyle .