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Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions

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OUTREACH

Service learning is a key aspect of the Lewis College degree programs. Students reinforce classroom lessons with hands-on learning experiences called clinicals, many of which allow students to provide health care to some of Atlanta's most underserved communities.

DID YOU KNOW?

Our students provide more than 35,000 hours of unpaid service annually to the Atlanta community and beyond.

Community Service

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Nursing

Nursing faculty and students, through the Children's Restoration Network, have given more than 3,000 homeless children back-to-school physicals over the past 23 years. They also have provided physicals for DeKalb County’s Head Start program.

Undergraduate nursing students created a portable, low-cost health record system for indigent patients visiting Mercy Care clinics in metro Atlanta.

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Nutrition

Students teach nutrition to people of all ages through partnerships with the Atlanta Children's Shelter and two metro Atlanta NORCs Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities.  Graduate students work with community leaders to assess the community's needs in developing the workshops.

Nutrition students developed and operate in partnership with Civic Engagement, the Panther's Pantry, a campus-based food bank that serves food-insecure Georgia State students.

2019 Georgia State University Perimeter College Dental Hygiene grads and Atlanta campus Physical Therapy students proving services to Migrant workers and their families.

Physical Therapy

Physical therapy students have provided assessment and treatment to migrant farm workers and their families in south Georgia for more than 18 years via an Emory University-led consortium.

The department also partners with the not-for-profit Communidad Connect to provide physical therapy for laborers in Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic.

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Respiratory Therapy

Students offer smoking-cessation workshops and pulmonary function screenings to a variety of community members. On service learning study abroad to the Dominican Republic, students teach school children about the dangers of smoking.

Using American Cancer Society curricula, respiratory therapy students lead the Georgia State Great American Smokeout Day.

Grady Health System Partnership

Two Atlanta institutions are addressing a critical nursing shortage at Atlanta’s largest hospital and addressing health care in the surrounding region. Georgia State University and Grady Health System have entered a partnership that provides for the education of new nurses, adjunct faculty positions for experienced Grady nurses and the construction of a new simulation center.

Project Healthy Grandparents

Started by Dr. Susan Kelley, Project Health Grandparents (PHG) strives to enhance the quality of life for families headed by grandparents raising their grandchildren. Improving grandparents’ parenting abilities advances positive outcomes for their grandchildren. PHG provides monthly visits from nursing and social workers for greater physical, emotional and economic support to grandparents. Grandparents in the program attend support groups and parenting classes where they have a chance to talk to others experiencing similar challenges. PHG research is shared nationally and internationally, and the program has been replicated in universities in Georgia, Maryland and North Carolina. Since 1995, PHG has affected the lives of more than 3,000 children and grandparents in DeKalb and Fulton counties.

International Initiatives

To be engaged in a global community is becoming a priority of the Lewis College. The college promotes a wide variety of international activities in consultation and collaboration with the GSU’s Office of International Initiatives that include Global Partnership and Exchange programs, Study Abroad programs etc. 

Contact Us

Location

Urban Life Building
404-413-1100
[email protected]

Mailing Address

Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions
P.O. Box 3995
Atlanta, GA 30302-3995

Academic Assistance

404-413-1000
[email protected]

Technology Assistance

404-413-4357
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