Mass health education - NUINS

Department of Child Health Nursing, Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences, along with III rd year BSc(N) students organized health education on the topic “Hand Hygiene” to the 140 school children of St. Joseph’s Paneer Primary School on 20 th November 2014. Sr. Treesa the Principal of the school gave a warm welcome and introduced us to the students. The topics were dealt on ‘Steps of Hand Hygiene’. The routine hand hygiene steps to be practiced daily, was taught by Ms Deepa, Ms Aishwarya [IIIrd BSC (N)] with the help of LCD illustrating their explanations with pictures and also with demonstration.The student’s re- demonstrated the procedure. At the end of the health talk we thanked the Principal, teachers and students for their co-operation and presented them sweets.