EP faculty (Dr. Mark Kasper, Dr. LaGary Carter, and Sarah Thomas) met with Lois Bellflowers’ Community Nursing class recently to provide an overview of the Exercise is Medicine Initiative — a collaborative effort by the american college of sports medicine and the american medical association. EIM purpose: health care provides at every visit should assess physical activity at every visit as a vital sign. This should be followed with a brief counseling session regarding the benefits of PA specific to the patient and then writing an exercise RX w/ appropriate referral to an exercise physiologist.
Specific strategies were discussed relevant to how a nurse could implement such initiative into their daily practice.