Healthcare Faces of the Future for 6th-8th grades at VMH September 14


"Healthcare Faces of the Future" at VMH ... In less than a month, NICC and Veterans Memorial Hospital will team up to provide “Healthcare Faces of the Future” which is a day for sixth through eighth graders to explore the many health care careers that are available to them. The event will be held at Veterans Memorial Hospital Wednesday, September 14, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., which is a teacher in-service day with no school. Pictured are some “faces of the future” in healthcare who visited the hospital’s health care career photo booth recently at the Allamakee County Fair. To register a child for Healthcare Faces of the Future, go to www.nicc.edu/waukon and scroll down to Youth Courses to find the Healthcare Faces of the Future registration link. Submitted photo.

In less than one month, Northeast Iowa Community College (NICC) and Veterans Memorial Hospital will team up to provide a day for sixth-eighth grade students to explore the many health care careers that are available to them. The event will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Hospital Wednesday, September 14, which is a teacher in-service day with no school.

All attending will be visiting numerous health care departments around the hospital and hearing from staff in those roles. Many of the departments visited will include Nursing, Emergency Room (ER), Ambulance, Laboratory, X-ray, Nutrition and Diabetes Education, Health Information/Medical Records, Physical and Occupational Therapy, Respiratory Therapy, Home Health Care, etc.

The local professionals in those departments will share their educational requirements and discuss what a typical day in their work life is, all in an effort to introduce more youth to career opportunities in health care.

Corinne Cook, RN, will be the class instructor. This class is held free of charge and a lunch will be served.   All those attending should enter the hospital through the ICN entrance located at the southeast side of the hospital along the golf course.

To register a child for Healthcare Faces of the Future, go to www.nicc.edu/waukon and scroll down to Youth Courses to find the Healthcare Faces of the Future registration link.