SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

Scholarly Activities

students are required to participate in scholarly activities outside of clinical practice or professional practice. Examples of scholarly activities include attending conferences, seminars, journal club, grand rounds, morbidity and mortality meetings, interdisciplinary committees, quality improvement committees, and any other opportunities available at your site, within your community, or nationally.

You are required to post one scholarly activity while you are in the BSN program, which should be documented by the end of this course. In addition to this submission, you are required to be involved and contribute to interdisciplinary initiatives on a regular basis.

Submit, as the assignment, a summary report of the scholarly activity, including who, what, where, when and any relevant take-home points. Include the appropriate program competencies associated with the scholarly activity as well as future professional goals related to this activity. You may use the “Scholarly Activity Summary” resource to help guide this assignment.

Answer preview

The scholarly activity was a seminar on health education. The target population for the seminar was parents with children in the elementary and middle school. Youths and teenagers were also free to attend.   The district director of curriculum development facilitated the seminar. Community health nurses also participated in the seminars as well as schools and community leaders.  The activity was focused on promoting a new program for the prevention of obesity in teens and children through a curriculum aiming at initiating eating behavior change to children…