The third grade students and the Pediatric Nursing Branch at the College of Nursing have organized a field visit to Al-Masara Primary School, accompanied by a number of their professors with the aim to distinguish the physical and psychosocial characteristics of healthy school-age children from the sick children, in addition to exercising the nursing role in school or in the community.
The visit included measuring the body mass index of school children using the BMI card approved by the Ministry of Health so as to assess the children’s growth pattern within normal levels. Also during the visit, the students learned how to observe the behaviors of school children and identify their developmental problems by linking them with the theories of growth and development adopted within the curriculum of growth and human development. Brochures and health awareness drawings printed for school children were also distributed by students of the third stage about healthy foods and the harms of fast foods and soft drinks using pictures and illustrations of their harms to the organs of the body.
