Photo: Second year nursing student Jani Lewis (left) and preschooler Sam Trujillo (right).

Silver City, NM – School of Nursing students facilitated the annual Well Child Check on September 2 at Western New Mexico University's Early Childhood Programs Child Development Center.

Each year, students in the nursing program provide a series of screenings to the children at the Child Development Center to insure a healthy start to the year. The second year nursing students practice their skills at the center and throughout the community providing screenings at the public schools and El Grito Headstart.

The check up included measurements and heart beat monitoring.

Western New Mexico University has served the people of the state of New Mexico and its surrounding areas as a comprehensive, regional, rural, public coeducational university since 1893 and serves a student body diverse in age, culture, language and ethnic background.