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There are more than 290,000 nurse practitioners in the United States, including 7,000 licensed in Georgia.
The health fair, one of two annual health service events by Augusta University’s College of Nursing for Costa Layman Farms, provides health information for the farmworkers as well as hands-on opportunities for education and research for faculty and...
Nursing students will be working remotely with the farms toward a needs assessment/health care focused project for farmworkers.
Students from several Augusta University colleges spent the day providing health screenings at Costa Layman Farms.
Over the years, the program has provided more than 5,000 screenings to migrant workers.
Learn how students are bringing quality care to farm workers in rural South Carolina.
Give back to the community by volunteering at the annual Costa Layman Health Fair.
Every summer, the Augusta University College of Nursing hosts an interdisciplinary student-run health fair providing free personalized and preventative health screenings, education and services to farmworkers in rural South Carolina. This outreach...
Every summer, students at Augusta University offer free personalized and preventative health screenings, education and services to farmworkers in rural South Carolina. In 12 years, they’ve provided more than 3,000 screenings. It’s part of a long...
What do you get when a university comes to the aid of a community in need? World-class research and unprecedented access to care, for a start. But the annual Costa Layman Health Fair offers so much more. Watch the video or browse a gallery of photos...
Augusta University students volunteer at annual health fair AUGUSTA, Ga. – With a higher mortality rate than most other industrial jobs, farming is one of the most dangerous jobs in the United States. But access to preventive screenings may reduce...
Dr. Pamela Cromer, associate professor of biobehavioral nursing in the College of Nursing, has been awarded the 2016 AANP Nurse Practitioner State Award for Excellence. According to the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, the NP State Award...
A decade ago, Costa Layman Farms and the Georgia Regents University College of Nursing took a chance on something truly extraordinary. The result – the Costa Layman Health Fair – was a bold and important step into the field of personalized...
