OGACHI Blog: Working With Our Families

One of the largest components of our day was working with our three families that live in the La Libertad neighborhood served by CAESC (The UPOLI nursing school-run health education center). We were divided into groups of three – two Duke students and one UPOLI student – and each group worked with one family. We used a document called “Historia de Salud Familiar” (Family Health History) which was from the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health to gather pertinent health information. (It looked very similar to several of the assessment sheets that we use in the USA.

For about an hour each day over a two-week period, we worked with our assigned family by doing a head to toe assessment on two to three family members, health histories and a home assessment. (Read more)