Community Health ...TNT Health Clinic

It was a bittersweet day ending out little clinic in the transitional homeless community, where we open for business and do assessments, administer OTCs and triage. We stocked up the medicine cabinet, cleaned up and put out a new sign that read, "while TNT clinic hours are done, we will be back as nurse volunteers throughout the winter to assist you with your health needs. Look for our doors to be back open in November.

We spent the last week doing a lot of patient teaching, handing out OTCs for colds, muscle aches and even assessed a client who had been in a motorcycle accident. Our clinic room houses educational materials, an examination table, medicine cabinet, scale and two desks where we park it during our clinic hours. We did smoking cessation, Hepatitis C education, followed a skin cancer patient and handed out goodie bags. We decided we'd partner up with the Recreation Social Worker intern and do a couple movie/education nights in the Rec Room in Nov. just to get people together and talking about their health. We were able see our regular HTN/diabetic patients and get a lot of homework done. There is something about an open door that says c'mon in, because people came by to talk and we listened...because that what nurses do.