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Manchester Students Deliver Dental Hygiene Education To Head Start
On March 5, 11 nursing students from the Manchester campus visited the three Head Start programs in Manchester, N.H. to deliver classroom lessons on general and dental hygiene. Lauren Palma, a first year Nursing student, organized this effort by coordinating with Sarah Brown, the Head Start Health and Nutrition Director. The students developed a lesson plan that was delivered in six classrooms to more than 70 children. Together, the nursing students and children read stories about brushing their teeth, colored pictures of toothbrushes, and practiced washing their hands. As part of National Dental Hygiene Month and in coordination with the MCPHS Forsyth School of Dental Hygiene, the students provided each of the children with a toothbrush to take home. The three visits were just the beginning of a strong partnership between MCPHS-Manchester and Head Start. This summer, MCPHS will be developing an interdisciplinary community effort that will have nursing, pharmacy, and physician assistant studies students providing summer health screenings for Head Start children in Manchester, Nashua, and other locations in southern New Hampshire.
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