{"id":218740,"date":"2024-09-13T11:15:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T15:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=218740"},"modified":"2024-09-13T09:43:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T13:43:31","slug":"urban-service-track-ahec-ust-learning-retreat-hosted-by-the-school-of-nursing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/09\/urban-service-track-ahec-ust-learning-retreat-hosted-by-the-school-of-nursing\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Service Track\/AHEC (UST) Learning Retreat Hosted by the School of Nursing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The <\/span>Urban Service Track\/AHEC Scholars Program<\/span><\/a> is a 2-year program designed to produce a cadre of well-qualified health care professionals through prevention and primary care in Connecticut’s urban underserved communities. Nine UConn nursing juniors are in the incoming UST Cohort #18 (out of 45 health care students) from UConn schools of nursing, medicine, pharmacy, social work, dental medicine, and\u00a0Quinnipiac\u2019s physician assistant program.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

UConn Health\u2019s chief diversity officer, Dr. Jeffrey Hines, MD, opened the event with a presentation titled <\/span>Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: There is No YouTube Video for This.<\/span><\/i> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Jeffrey Hines, MD, gives presentation at UST Learning Conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Through a series of learning retreats on special populations, such as veterans, LGBT+, and urban youth, UST scholars learn about gaps in services and how to best address them. There is a particular focus on understanding the social determinants of health that impact patient access and care.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cStudents in our program are keenly interested in better understanding the health needs and concerns of underserved rural and urban populations. Personally, I applaud our nursing students who want to be part of the UST team because it takes a special student to take on this commitment along with their already demanding course load. I\u2019ve been involved with UST for five years and have seen the results – believe me, it is well worth it!\u201d
\n– Dr. O\u2019Neill<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The students\u00a0also participated in a clinical skills bootcamp at UConn Health Center in Farmington the following day. UST students are expected to participate in at least two community service activities each <\/span>semester. They may participate in health clinics, community fairs, and educational activities at schools, nursing homes, and other organizations.<\/p>\n

At Saturday\u2019s bootcamp, the students went through a series of stations where they learned\u00a0the skills they will need when they go out into the community.<\/p>\n

Six senior nursing students are entering their second and final year in UST. The School of Nursing has the largest group at 15 students compared to the other schools. Dr. Barbara O\u2019Neill, Ph.D., RN, and Nicey Brooks, BSN, RN, UConn UST Scholar <\/span>\u2019<\/span>22, and graduate assistant are the nursing school facilitators for the UST program.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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UST Learning Retreat Student Group Photo in Lobby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, Sept. 5, the UConn School of Nursing hosted the first UST scholar\u2019s learning retreat for the upcoming academic year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":218742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1877],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2627,2442],"class_list":["post-218740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nur"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 07:03:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218740"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218822,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218740\/revisions\/218822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/218742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218740"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=218740"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=218740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}