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This Community Health Nursing project focused on assisting clients in building resiliency by providing them with stress management strategies and skills for coping with life challenges. This was achieved through a series of small-scale interventions focusing on building relationships within the community at Cornerstone.
Our project focuses on teaching vaginal health promotion in four areas: hygiene, nutrition, infection, and contraception. This information was presented to the targeted population over two fun and interactive sessions.
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This project aims to equip CPAR with a diverse set of resources to effectively communicate the impact of the Enhancing Sexual and Reproductive Health for Women and Adolescents (ESWA) initiative, amplifying the impact of public health efforts, raising awareness, and ensuring that critical messages reach the right audiences. Some deliverables included posters and PowerPoint presentations.
According to Ottawa Public Health, from 2011-2019, the rates of chlamydia have increased by 26%, the rates of gonorrhea increased 171% and the rates of syphillis have increased by 389%. Homeless youth in the Ottawa area are at a higher risk of developing sexually transmitted infections. In collaboration with Operation Come Home this project provided youth with an information session and educational resources to increase awareness regarding safe sex practices.
We supported CANAC in conducting a scoping review to summarize the existing evidence on nursing care for 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals with HIV in Canada, with the aim of informing nursing care practices for this population. This involved defining inclusion/exclusion criteria, screening and selecting relevant literature, and extracting key information using Covidence.
The S.A.F.E. (Stop All Falls Everywhere) Ottawa Resource Guide is a comprehensive, student-created tool that consolidates fall prevention resources across Ottawa. The project is in collaboration with the S.A.F.E. Ottawa Coalition, which a local collaborative with a mission to reduce the incidence of falls in home environments. Members of the coalition, including Ottawa Public Health, BuildABLE, Council on Aging of Ottawa, Healthcraft and many others, are working to raise awareness about safety features and home adaptations for all ages, reduce stigma related to safer bathrooms and safer stairs, and advocate for policy initiatives. This detailed resource guide aims to address the challenge of fragmented fall prevention resources in Ottawa, providing residents with easy access to vital support and services for safer, independent living.
This community health nursing project aimed to explore the effectiveness of peer programming in growing client engagement with the Centretown Community Health Centre. This project further expanded on the variety of peer programs with the introduction of Wellness Kits and hypothesized ways to expand future engagement programming.