Arkansas’s Poverty rate of 17.2% is the seventh highest in the US, surpassed only by Louisiana and Mississippi in the South. Kids Count data indicate that 24% of children in Arkansas live in poverty. The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened this issue, with many more children and families in the crisis of poverty than ever before. School nurses see the impact of poverty on student health firsthand. It affects students in a variety of ways. It can be seen via health issues stemming from food insecurity, poor housing, homelessness, or limited access to medical care for illnesses. Students who are living in the crisis of poverty have higher rates of hospital admissions, disability days, and death rates.
Content to be provided but not limited to:
* The differences between generational poverty, working class poverty, immigrant poverty, situational poverty, and depression era poverty * How poverty is internalized as a personal deficiency * Barriers perceived by people in poverty when dealing with those not in poverty * Poverty as a social determinant of health * Techniques for understanding and valuing oral and print culture communication styles * Ways to motivate and provide meaningful incentives to people fighting poverty
4.25 Contact Hours will be provided.
This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by the Midwest Multistate
Division, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on.