Students share timely information on heat exposure

  Thursday, July 21, 2016 2:00 AM
  News

Pittsburg, KS

One of the messages Pitt State students will share with visitors to this weekend’s Four-State Farm Show is about the dangers of heat exposure. That’s timely information as temperatures flirt with triple digits and heat indexes soar well beyond that.

As they do every year, Pitt State students enrolled in the class “Client and Family” will partner with Via Christi in a tent near the entrance to the farm show where they will take blood pressures and share information on a variety of topics of special interests to rural Kansans.

Faculty in PSU’s Irene Ransom Bradley School of Nursing say the event is more than just a service project for the students. It is also a practical classroom exercise in both teaching and interacting with rural communities.

In addition to heat exposure, the students have compiled information on hypertension, farm injuries, snakes, spiders, mosquitoes, ticks and other topics.

The students are scheduled to work at the farm show from 7:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. each day, Friday through Sunday. Now in its 41st year, the farm show runs July 22-24 south of Pittsburg, just east of the junction of Highways 400, 69 and K-171.