Because the summer season days dwindle down and our youth begin heading again to highschool, we’re excited about the subsequent technology of well being care workforce members. We proceed to accomplice with native center colleges, excessive colleges, and schools to develop consciousness of the number of well being care careers.
At UnityPoint Well being – Trinity Regional Medical Heart, we’ve got a Pupil Connection Committee targeted on educating youth about all well being care careers. We provide job shadowing all year long for highschool college students focused on a wide range of careers, together with radiology technician, ultrasound technician and nursing. Earlier this spring, we had greater than 50 college students go to Trinity from Fort Dodge Senior Excessive, St. Edmond, Southeast Webster Grand and Southeast Valley. They visited a wide range of departments, together with Radiology, Surgical procedure, Emergency, Pediatrics, Dermatology, Acute Care, and the Essential Care Unit. Through the tour, college students have been capable of ask questions of workforce members to study extra in regards to the totally different areas on the hospital. The Pupil Connection Committee additionally frolicked with Fort Dodge Senior Excessive’s Well being Occupations College students of America group, offering schooling about touring well being care services, totally different hands-on experiences for college students, and provides used within the simulation heart.
We’re grateful for an amazing partnership with Iowa Central Group Faculty, and the flexibility to host college students within the William G. and Marlys Smith Simulation Heart. We partnered collectively to host “Nurse Camp” for seventh and eighth graders, who had the chance to expertise simulated bedside affected person care and take part within the hands-on ability lab. Iowa Central college and Trinity workforce members have been there to reply any questions and talk about every kind of well being care careers.
We’re grateful for Iowa Central, and all they do to deliver high quality schooling to our neighborhood. It’s an amazing place to study, and an amazing alternative for college students to work at Trinity whereas they full their diploma. We’re proud to recruit many gifted nurses, radiology, and lab technicians to Trinity upon completion of their diploma from Iowa Central – they proceed to develop and maintain our neighborhood.
Our work in the neighborhood is regularly rising. With our Again-to-Faculty New Footwear Program, we’re partnering with Athletics for Schooling and Success (AFES) and plenty of different native firms to offer model new sneakers to college students who qualify for a free or decreased lunch. That is our second 12 months of this system, and we hope to offer nearly 500 sneakers to sixth, seventh and eighth graders at Fort Dodge Center Faculty, St. Paul, St. Edmond and Group Christian.
By supporting our neighborhood in some ways, we’re pondering of our subsequent technology; the subsequent wave of well being care workforce members and the subsequent technology of these of us who will want well being care companies. Better of luck to all native college students as they return to the classroom for an additional 12 months of college. We stay up for rising our neighborhood, offering excellence in well being care supply by way of our partnership and bringing extra consciousness to the abundance of careers within the well being care business.
Leah Glasgo is the chief government officer of UnityPoint Well being – Fort Dodge.
