The consumption of snacks becomes a habit of the children. The habit finds at all the socioeconomic level of society and at all the age level of children, especially in the school-age children. The peer educator is an education given to peer group which aims to increase knowledge, skill for a group member, especially in the health sector, including nutrition requirement for body covering balanced nutrition, healthy diet, prevention of dietary deviation, balanced menu arrangement, and proper nutrition when exercising. The peer education about nutrition for school children include nutritional needs, regulate health and nutritious snacks, meals to prevent the occurrence of illness due to errors in consuming the type of food. This study was aimed to determine the improved knowledge and attitude of students about the healthy snacks thought peer education. The study used a Quasi-experimental design. The sample of the research consists of 35 students. The result of the study shows that peer education increases the knowledge of 33 students (94,3%) in the good category and increase the attitude of 35 students (100%) good category. The results of the study suggested that the school administrators should select the food that had been sold in the canteen and optimized the UKS program for teachers, staff, and students. The school administration should talk about healthy snacks to the parents of children.

Background: Nurse performance plays an important role in ensuring high quality care to achieve patient outcomes in hospitals. Therefore, factors related to the performance warrant investigation. Emotional intelligence and workplace culture are assumed to be related to nurse performance.Objective: To determine the relationship of emotional intelligence, workplace culture, and nurse performance at one of private hospitals in Medan Indonesia.Methods: This study employed a cross-sectional design with 126 associate nurses who were selected using a simple random sampling technique. Emotional intelligence, workplace culture, and nurse performance were measured using valid questionnaires. Spearman-Rank correlation test was used for data analysis.Results: Majority of nurses had high performance, emotional intelligence and workplace culture. There were significant relationships between emotional intelligence, workplace culture, and nurse performance, with a strong (r= .68; p= .01) and medium level (r= .30; p= .01), respectively.Conclusion: Nurses with high emotional intelligence and good workplace culture would show good performance in providing professional nursing care to patients. It is recommended for the hospital managers and nurse managers to improve emotional intelligence of nurses and create better workplace culture in order to improve the nurse performance.

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Pertumbuhan dan perkembangan anak usia sekolah harus optimal seperti pemberian nutrisi dengan kualitas dan kuantitas yang baik serta benar, bila tidak benar dapat mengakibatkan gangguan pada banyak organ tubuh anak usia sekolah. Cara efektif yang dapat dilakukan adalah dengan promosi kesehatan mengenai jajanan sehat dan bahaya junk food. Kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini dimaksudkan kepada orang tua dan sekolah untuk mengurangi paparan anak sekolah terhadap makanan  jajanan yang tidak sehat dan tidak aman. Kegiatan promosi kesehatan di SD Muhammadiyah I Medan dilakukan pada bulan Maret sampai Agustus menggunakan metode digital yang disampaikan melalui Whatsapp group, dilakukan pre dan postest kemudian pemaparan dengan menggunakan media leaflet, video dan diikuti dengan diskusi. Terjadi peningkatan pengetahuan dan sikap orangtua dan sekolah dalam makanan sehat dan bahaya junk  food.