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 Could you or someone you know benefit from home visits from nursing students who can assist with blood pressures, blood sugars, other basic nursing skills, and some good old-fashioned cheer?
Then the free Door-2-Door Program, sponsored by Southern Adventist University and propelled forward by its nursing students, might be the program for you!
“During visits, students are happy to take blood pressures and blood sugars, assess and assist with access to community resources, and perform other nursing skills,” says Kristine Follett, the class’s clinical instructor, “but they’re not there to replace Home Health services and do things like bathing, injections, or dressing changes. Instead, students can offer a listening ear and help clients better understand their medications, their health conditions, and what they can do to improve their health—be it physically, mentally, socially, or spiritually.”
While onsite, students also evaluate each client’s situation to the best of their abilities. If they sense that people might need assistance with food, personal care products, bill assistance, or another service that the Center could provide, they pass that information along to the Center’s case workers. They also try to think of other creative ways to improve the lives of those they visit, whether that be through helping them get doctors’ appointments, checking out books-on-CD from the library, passing on healthy recipes, or something more.
“My hope and prayer is that our students will come away from the Door-2-Door program with a passion for personal community service as they become aware of real individual and community needs,” shares Mrs. Follett. “I want them to be equipped to serve wherever God leads them, whether that be as a missionary in a foreign land, a large urban city, or small-town rural America.”
To learn more or to get involved, call (423) 238-7777, ext. 13.
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