THE COLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE TO HOST TRAVELING
HEALTH  INITIATIVE AT MAIN CAMPUS
Healthy Campus 2010 Now in its 19th Consecutive Year

NEW ROCHELLE, NY, October 21, 2005 -- Healthy Campus 2010, a successful collaboration between the Health Services Office and the School of Nursing (SN) at
The College of New Rochelle (CNR), will be held on the Main Campus on Wednesday, November 2, from 10 am to 4 pm.  CNR nursing students will offer presentations on health promotion topics to the CNR community, senior citizens from Willow Towers, an assisted living facility, and students from Isaac E. Young Middle School. Some of the topics will include breast cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and adolescent safety.  

Funding in part for this event comes from a $200,000 grant secured for CNR by U.S. Congresswoman Nita Lowey as part of the Fiscal Year 2005 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations legislation.

“Our objective with Healthy Campus 2010 is to educate individuals in the CNR community about how to increase their quality of life through health programs and teach them how to manage chronic health care issues,” said Marie Serina, RN-C, MA, FNP-CS, Director of College Health Services at CNR.

“An outgrowth of the CNR Health Fair that was launched in 1987, Healthy Campus 2010 has allowed the College to: 1) provide students in the School of Nursing with a vehicle for developing and using their teaching skills in health education and disease prevention, and 2) to address specific health issues and needs of the CNR community across its six campuses.”

Senior nursing students assess the health needs of the community through questionnaires, discussion groups, and demographic data.  The findings parallel the leading indicators described in Healthy People 2010, the national health initiative led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, smoking, exercise and mental health.

The next step is to use health screening and education to identify high- and low-risk behaviors and analyze lifestyle patterns that may contribute to these behaviors.  CNR nursing students then develop and implement strategies to teach members of the community how to prevent and/or manage these health issues.

Established in 1976, the School of Nursing at CNR is widely recognized for innovation and excellence in programming that is responsive to the public’s changing health needs. The School offers six programs: a traditional four-year undergraduate program leading to a bachelor of science in nursing; a traditional and an accelerated program of study for RNs seeking a B.S.N.; an accelerated B.S.N. program for those holding degrees in other fields; an accelerated RN to M.S. program; and an M.S. degree program with tracks in holistic nursing, acute care nurse practitioner, family nurse practitioner, health care management, and in the Nurse Educator role.  Post master’s programs are available in all acute care tracks, HIV/AIDS, and in Palliative Care.  CNR graduates are prepared to assume beginning leadership roles and facilitate change to improve the quality of client care in the health care system for diverse and multicultural populations.

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The first Catholic college for women in New York State, The College of New Rochelle was founded in 1904 by the Ursuline Order. Today, it comprises the all-women School of Arts & Sciences, and three schools which admit women and men: the School of New Resources (for adult learners), the School of Nursing and the Graduate School.  The main campus of the College is located in lower Westchester County, 16 miles north of New York City.  The College maintains six other campus locations in New York City. Visit the College’s website at www.cnr.edu