By Tiana Hodge
East provides many programs that help students gain experience with the career path they're interested in. The Nursing Program gives students the opportunity to learn about all the different careers that are in the medical field. The program gives students hands-on experience about what being a nurse is like. The Nursing Program offered students two full-day field trips to the nursing school. On November 1st, 2023, the nursing program students had the first full day field trip. We had the chance to watch two spinal surgeries. We had the opportunity to be in the O.R. with the doctors. We learned about all the different roles the doctors and nurses have in the O.R. The doctors talked to us about all the different tools they use for the different surgeries that they do. We also learned a little bit about what neurosurgeons do. They also talked a little bit about the preparation they must do before they start surgeries. Every Wednesday the nursing students go to the nursing school and learn about all different topics related to the medical field. The Nursing Program is very hands-on. We learned about opioid overdoses and how NarCan can stop the overdoses. We also learned how to administer NarCan. Another topic that the nursing program teaches is about infectious diseases. What they are, how they can spread, the different symptoms, what we can do to prevent the disease, and the steps nurses take to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Nurses put on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), to protect themselves and everyone else. There is an order of the way nurses put on PPE and how to take it off. The next topic we learned about is how to stop someone from bleeding. The nurses did a demonstration of how to pack a wound and how to put on a tourniquet. Then we had the opportunity to try it ourselves. Another hands-on experience we were offered was how to administer medication, how to set up a fluid bag and how to check vitals. We also learned about the different parts of the brain and what part of the human body they control. On November 29, we had our second full-day field trip. We started off with two activities where we learned how the skeletal system is put together and the dissection of a cow heart to understand how a heart works, then the nursing students were offered a tour of the hospital. We had the chance to see all the different departments of all the different medical field jobs. Guest speakers are also a part of this program. A hospice nurse came in and talked a bit about her job and why she became a nurse. After that we split into two groups and did a simulation of CPR, and a simulation of listening to regular and irregular heartbeats and breathing. Throughout the nursing program, we work on poster boards that we would present at the end of the nursing program. When the nursing students started to work on our boards, we chose different diseases to research. On December 6th, we presented our boards on the disease we chose. To have this opportunity to explore career paths is a valuable part of being a student at East.
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