Students get a taste of nursing
profession
The 11 Charleston County School District high school students
participating in this year’s School-to-Careers Program on nursing got
more than just an introduction to the hospital. Their three-day visit
included training that could save a life.
Hospital services
clinical coordinator Yvonne Martin, right, shows School-to-Careers
students how to make an occupied bed. From left are LaSard Brown from
Lincoln High School, Desma McCormick from Garrett Academy of
Technology, Antonia Alston of Burke High School and Ronnie Roland of
R.B. Stall High School.“Our goal is to help these students experience what a career in nursing is like and connect their work in the classroom to the real life techniques they would use here,” said Schools-to-Career Program team associate Jodi Bateman. “They are seeing the need for an emphasis on math and are learning why they have to study anatomy.”
Hospital clinical services coordinators Pay Aysse and Yvonne Martin, said that the basic skills the students learned and practiced included CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation), interpersonal skills such as meeting people they don’t know and making eye contact. They learned about making an occupied bed, wound care, tracheostomy care, IVs and pumps in the skills lab.
The program also included two job shadow rotations in which the students had a first-hand look at the various skills nurses perform and a trauma presentation in which they are shown the hazards of driving while drinking and of not wearing seat belts.
Bateman said that the students are encouraged to seek volunteer and job opportunities in the hospital.
“The School-to-Careers Program is an opportunity for us to recruit nurses for the future,” Martin said. “It’s a big recruiting tool for the hospital.” During the program’s closing ceremony, each student was presented with a working stethoscope as a reminder that a career in nursing is available to each of them.
Friday, June 10, 2005
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