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 NTI News - National Teaching Institute - American
Association of Critical-Care Nurses
May 25, 2006
Article: NTI Offers Learning Experience for High School Students
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Dana Hills High School THE PAPER
Friday, March 25, 2005
Article: HMO Spawns Nurses, New Academies
by Morgan
Voien, Feature Editor
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The Health Academy
recently appeared in the
Capistrano
Unified School District's School News
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March
2005 Volume 1, Issue 3
Students Excel by Interning in a
Medical Setting
By Rachel Friedman-de Leon, L.V.N.
Instructor Capistrano-Laguna Beach ROP
A unique partnership involving South Coast Medical Center and Kaiser
Permanente, Mission Viejo, Capistrano-Laguna Beach Regional Occupations
Program and Dana Hills High School's Health and Medical Occupations
Academy offers a year of medical mentoring in two progressive medical
environments. This course is tailored to high school juniors in the
award-winning Health Academy. These students receive a comprehensive
overview of medical terminology, hospital, clinical safety, and privacy
guidelines, understanding of common ailments, diagnostic tests and medical
specialties. Students are bussed to the locations and spend three to four
hours every week working in medical-related rotation. There are six
rotations in one year, and each student has the opportunity to intern in
many departments of their choice.
Our six-year partnership with South Coast Medical Center has brought about
an exceptional pool of student volunteers who serve after school and on
weekends. Students observe procedures, do clerical tasks, practice
effective communication with health professionals, and do stimulation
therapy with patients. Some students also create special projects, such as
Lorenzo Gonzalez, a junior at Dana Hills High School, who is an intern
with Meals-On-Wheels. He organized a special event for all recipients of
Meals-On-Wheels to receive goody bags fro Christmas. He realized that
sometimes no one but the driver visits these people every day. One of the
biggest supporters and mentors for our program is Joy McCord, Activities
Director in the Sub-Acute Unit and South Coast Medical Center. She takes
it upon herself to train students to do stimulation therapy. All patients
deserve special attention, sp students spend extra time reading, singing,
and playing games with patients.
Our new partnership with Kaiser Permanente, Mission Viejo begins with
Barbara Lindsay, the administrator. She observed our students two years
ago and was impressed with the program. She invited our students to
Kaiser, and now they participate in the clinical setting for one semester,
as they do with South Coast Medical Center. Clinical experiences include:
pediatrics, family medicine, dermatology, urgent care, ophthalmology,
radiology, nurse clinic, and optometry. Students job shadow with
physicians, nurses, physician assistants, medical assistants and radiology
technicians. Each student will be able to do vital signs, check patients
weights, admit patients, and observe procedures in this clinical setting.
After completion of the medical/hospital careers course and the Dana Hills
High School Health Academy, students are uniquely positioned for a future
medical career. Some students have even been hired for medical careers-
Gereme Gaffney and Michael Ying in pathology and Talah Foroutan and Lauren
Gray at a plastic surgery office. Students are very excited to have this
valuable experience, and it helps each one focus on a medical career
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GOLDEN BELL
WINNERS!!!
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The
Health and Medical Occupations Academy won the Golden Bell Award on
December 12, 2003. The Golden Bell Awards program promotes
excellence in education by recognizing outstanding programs in school
districts throughout California. It seeks out and recognizes
innovative, exemplary and sustainable programs which have been developed
and successfully implemented.
The Health and Medical Occupations
Academy is a challenging four-year program to prepare students to enter
universities and careers relating to the health and medical field. A
rigorous curriculum, internships, and summer jobs offer a unique
program for future health-care professionals. Each year juniors and
seniors internship at South Coast Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente,
Mission Viejo during their 4th period class (Health Science II).
From checking in patients to observing surgeries, these outstanding
students are exposed to a wide variety of health care techniques.
Congratulations Dana Hills' Health and Medical Occupations Academy!!
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As seen in the
"Tidal News"
at
South Coast
Medical Center...
WE ARE PROUD OF OUR
STUDENTS!
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COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP COMPLETES ANOTHER
SUCCESSFUL YEAR
By Kathy Hinman, Former Director of
Volunteers
Briefly after the completion of the last Pulse mailing, I had the
opportunity to attend the Dana Hills High School Health and Medical
Occupations Academy's 4th Annual Awards ceremony. Students were
recognized for their progress in the Academy, and college students came
back to give personal testimonies of how the academy program influenced
their college and career paths. South Coast Medical Center and our
volunteer program were repeatedly cited with great praise during the
course of the 2-hour presentation. South Coast's community
partnership with the Dana Hills High School Academy has proven extremely
successful, and I hope that we can continue to offer the rewarding
hospital experiences to many more students in the future. As you
all know, students sign on as Auxiliary volunteers and contribute hours
to our hospital departments and community events. In addition, we
offer the Academy's Regional Occupations Program an opportunity to take
a bus trip twice a week to the hospital and spend classroom time within
the hospital shadowing different disciplines. The class allows the
students a better opportunity to determine what areas of medicine they
may wish to focus on in college, medical school and as a career.
Our program has truly inspired a number of students in our local
community to pursue a medical career as a doctor, nurse, technician, or
researcher. Our scholarships have further assisted many in pursuit
of their goals. I wish to extend my gratitude to all of you who
have personally interacted with all the students and inspired them to
continue with their education and accomplish their dreams.
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About Health Magazine, Winter 2001
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"While students gain valuable insights into choosing medical
professions...the
patients, medical personnel and other employees all are uplifted by the
youth's enthusiasm and energy, coupled with their growing healthcare job
skills." |
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Students
Study
Medical Careers
While Uplifting Patient and Employee
Morale
South Coast Medical
Center is welcoming a new generation of potential medical practitioners
into it's many departments.
Twice a week, 25
students in the Health and Medical Occupations Academy at Dana Hills High
School in nearby Dana Point are assigned on a rotational basis to areas
such as medical care, food, services, radiology, maternity, central
services, human resources, and the administration offices.
The doctors and nurses
allow students to observe many medical procedures, including operations in
the emergency room and the surgical unit. During non-critical periods, the
students also handle a variety of helpful tasks, such as cleaning
emergency room stations, and re-supplying operating areas with essential
materials.
"South Coast doctors
and nurses have been wonderfully receptive to our Academy students," says
Tammie Wingen, health sciences instructor at Dana Hills. For six years,
Wingen has been coordinating "get-aquatinted" medical internship visits to
SCMC for ninth through twelfth grade students.
This school year,
Wingen enhanced the Dana Hills program ( now 120 students strong ) by
successfully applying for an $80,000.00 grant from the California
Partnership Academy of the state Department of Education. These funds
cover bus transportation costs to SCMC, as well as field trip expenses to
medical institutions such as Loma Linda University Medical Center near San
Bernardino.
The Dana Hills medical
academy members also have enrolled in South Coast Medical Center's Junior
Volunteer program, administered by Kathy Hinman, Director of Volunteer
Services. Part of the SCMC Auxiliary, the Junior Volunteers assist in many
patient care, diagnostic and business areas of the hospital, year round.
These youths range in age from junior high school age through community
college age.
Volunteering at SCMC
has led some Dana Hills students to plan for fixture college studies and
careers in medicine. Erin Moniz, 16, has already devoted three years to
volunteer service, often working several days a week and summer months in
both the emergency and operating rooms. " I've been privileged to observe
many surgical procedures and that has inspired me to aim at becoming a
surgeon," Moniz says.
Hinman strongly
endorses both the Dana Hills medical academy and the SCMC Junior
Volunteers programs.
"While students gain
valuable insights into choosing medical professions," she says, "the
patients, medical personnel and other employees all are uplifted by the
youth's enthusiasm and energy, coupled with their growing healthcare job
skills." |
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