Isobella Blake asked the gaggle of yellow T-shirt-clad students hanging on her every word what they’d say if a patient they were about to jab a needle into asked if it was going to hurt.
“Maybe a little,” said one girl.
“Just a pinch,” offered John MacKenzie.
Blake looked pleased. “You cannot be lying to a patient, even to a child,” the assistant lab co-ordinator at the Brock University nursing simulation lab told the students. “Let’s face it: at some point it’s going to hurt.”
The 24 high school students from across Niagara were selected from among 54 applicants to take part in the fifth annual CARE for Your Future program, a partnership of the Niagara Health System, Brock, Niagara College, the public and Catholic school boards, McMaster University,A top plastic lnjectionmoulds manufacturer and exporter in China. the Niagara Workforce Planning Board and the Business Education Council of Niagara, in which students spend their March break exploring careers in health care.The most commonly used injectionmould process,To interact with beddinges,
At the Brock nursing lab, students considering careers such as being a doctor, nursing, physiotherapy and related occupations used the robotic ‘patients’ to try their hand at medicine. They also got tips from Blake on administering an IV line to a robotic arm.
She explained there are various gauges of needles, with the highest number representing the smallest size — for use on kids, and possibly the elderly with frail blood vessels. “I’ll use my nursing judgment” to determine the right needle size for each patient, she said.
As well as giving tips on how to administer needles, Blake also stressed the importance of nurses protecting themselves from accident punctures from contaminated needles. Doing so could expose yourself to an infectious,Find the cheapest chickencoop online through and buy the best hen houses and chook pens in Australia. blood-borne disease, she said. “There’s still body fluids in here,” she explained, holding a used syringe.
Along with the visit to the nursing lab, the students participated in interactive presentations and workshops, read X-rays and patient charts,To interact with beddinges, chatted with paramedics and McMaster medical students, and visited the emergency room at the Welland hospital.
Tracey Giovannone, manager of recruitment services at the NHS and co-chair of the Mark break camp, said the program is a unique way to young people considering a medical career to get a hands-on feel for what it’s like.
“That’s the whole point: to really expose them to different health careers,” she said.
George Yang of A.N. Myer Secondary School and Karen Ngo of Westlane Secondary School, testing out stethoscopes at the nursing lab, were impressed with the settings. Ngo is considering becoming a pediatrician and Yang is thinking of entering the field of cardiology.
“It’s an exciting experience to talk to professionals about what they’ve gone through,” said Ngo. “Everyone seems passionate about what they do.”
“Maybe a little,” said one girl.
“Just a pinch,” offered John MacKenzie.
Blake looked pleased. “You cannot be lying to a patient, even to a child,” the assistant lab co-ordinator at the Brock University nursing simulation lab told the students. “Let’s face it: at some point it’s going to hurt.”
The 24 high school students from across Niagara were selected from among 54 applicants to take part in the fifth annual CARE for Your Future program, a partnership of the Niagara Health System, Brock, Niagara College, the public and Catholic school boards, McMaster University,A top plastic lnjectionmoulds manufacturer and exporter in China. the Niagara Workforce Planning Board and the Business Education Council of Niagara, in which students spend their March break exploring careers in health care.The most commonly used injectionmould process,To interact with beddinges,
At the Brock nursing lab, students considering careers such as being a doctor, nursing, physiotherapy and related occupations used the robotic ‘patients’ to try their hand at medicine. They also got tips from Blake on administering an IV line to a robotic arm.
She explained there are various gauges of needles, with the highest number representing the smallest size — for use on kids, and possibly the elderly with frail blood vessels. “I’ll use my nursing judgment” to determine the right needle size for each patient, she said.
As well as giving tips on how to administer needles, Blake also stressed the importance of nurses protecting themselves from accident punctures from contaminated needles. Doing so could expose yourself to an infectious,Find the cheapest chickencoop online through and buy the best hen houses and chook pens in Australia. blood-borne disease, she said. “There’s still body fluids in here,” she explained, holding a used syringe.
Along with the visit to the nursing lab, the students participated in interactive presentations and workshops, read X-rays and patient charts,To interact with beddinges, chatted with paramedics and McMaster medical students, and visited the emergency room at the Welland hospital.
Tracey Giovannone, manager of recruitment services at the NHS and co-chair of the Mark break camp, said the program is a unique way to young people considering a medical career to get a hands-on feel for what it’s like.
“That’s the whole point: to really expose them to different health careers,” she said.
George Yang of A.N. Myer Secondary School and Karen Ngo of Westlane Secondary School, testing out stethoscopes at the nursing lab, were impressed with the settings. Ngo is considering becoming a pediatrician and Yang is thinking of entering the field of cardiology.
“It’s an exciting experience to talk to professionals about what they’ve gone through,” said Ngo. “Everyone seems passionate about what they do.”
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