Stepping up to the Challenge

I just love when I step onto the hospital floor and see nurses who are overweight, smoke and could care less about exercising or their own health. Especially as nurses we're suppose to be health advocates and promote preventative health measures, such as diet, exercise, stress reduction, etc. So it really ticks me off when I see these nurses stuffing their faces with the most fattening foods and then going out for a smoke...COME ON PEOPLE you're freaking killing me over here!

It's as bad as overweight cops who eat donuts while sitting in their cars. Whenever I see a fat cop I always want to go up to them and say "tag...you're IT!" and take off to see if they really could catch me...I would personally bet on myself.

So what the hell am I going to do about this disparity? One can say I have big ideas. Now the hard part will be getting them into fruition. (I can already hear my older brother in my head telling me..."Sarah just fucking graduate, stop going on these missions!) But I just can't let these ideas go...

Here's the plan:

1. I am trying to start a wellness program for the Spring semester at NYU. It will include speakers from the holistic department, Yoga to the People who will host a live yoga event in Washington Square Park, a Sexologist, Nutritionist to give us or start cooking classes with the students
2. The second part of this idea is to work with public schools and pair up nursing and medical school students to work together and build a "pin pal" type of relationship. The NYU students would come and do small talks about why health is important, what goes on at the doctors office, what questions you SHOULD ask and CAN ask (aka sex questions) and get them excited about being in control of THEIR bodies and what they put into them.
3. The final part is to host a benefit walk/run where all the schools can compete against the other schools. Or make it an obstacle course. something fun!
   

Obviously these ideas are still in the very rough draft stages, so next semester I will be working my ass off to pull these off! I've already been knocking on doors and getting the threads together.

p.s. if anyone has other good ideas hit me up