High school CTE Health Careers and EMT students recently hosted a “Stuffy Clinic” for 2nd graders at Laura B. Anderson Elementary, helping their young patients (and their teddy bears!) learn what to expect during a doctor visit.
From listening to heartbeats and learning about germs to sharing cookies made by CTE Culinary students, it was a day full of hands-on learning, for everyone involved.
Many of our high schoolers admitted they were nervous at first, but the experience helped them grow more confident and comfortable working with people, an important step in preparing for careers in healthcare!
Watch here --->
Happy. Oh my goodness, what's his name? Lily. And then your name is Allison. Yeah, pretty cool. Everybody. Sneezing. Also. Is it that one? OK, so first we're going to listen. I'm going to show you how to do it, OK? You take this part right here and you're going to listen to her breathing and I'm just going to take really deep breaths and you do you. Do you want me to do it on you? What are you doing? Teddy bear. That is what it waspada. Today this we're going to talk about the world of micro organisms. So. They're harmful germs that can make us sick. So today we did a teddy bear clinic to We brought in teddy bears and we treated them kind of like patients at a doctor's office with the kids to help them not be so scared of the doctors and to show them what really goes on kind of behind the scenes and just teach them what happens in the doctor's office and why, and really just show them the purpose of it, of going to the doctors. We listened. To heart and lung sounds. And also sometimes we would show them their own heart and lungs to let them listen to it. We had some medicine that was Pedialyte to show them that even though sometimes it's nasty, it'll help you and that it's not always bad. And we, we had little bandages and tissues and a whole bunch of different little knickknacks. We had little X-ray, a little X-ray station, just a whole bunch of different little knickknacks that they may see at the doctor's office. I'm going to USD for radiology. I did this because it helps with like the hands on experience for high schoolers. It also helps with communication throughout us all. And it helps with like encouragement and like feeling more confident in a healthcare setting where it's like adult or if it's kids and I feel like kids are harder crowd. So being in front of kids and like helping the children understand the health workers. I think it like boosts our confidence and the case confidence, whether it's like clinical setting or if you're just out of like a regular doctor. There was also a a germ presentation. So basically the kids. They got like this glow germ. So they got like fake, almost like lotion on their hands. And they watched German presentation. So by the end of presentation and they're like squirming all around, they're touching each other, getting the germs everywhere. And then the people who are the station take a black light and then they see their germs all over themselves and other students. And then they wash their hands after that to see how well they wash their hands, see if they got off the germs. So they kind of represents like taking care of yourself, you have a cold and like actually realizing how much germs can spread around people. And then there's also a cookie station. So like the kids, I think. They signed their like document what was wrong with their teddy bear and stuff like that. And then they got cookies just like treat themselves and justice like a good patient. These cookies were made by kids in high school too, right? In the classic cross from years. That's pretty cool. If they go to school and learn how to make cookies, they did really good. They nailed it. They. Really like showed their interest in it and showed that they were learning and they seemed really focused and that they were excited to be here. I'm not even gonna lie, I was a little nervous at first. But once we got here and seeing all the kids and how happy they were and how excited they were to like learn and be so hyper focused on something. I mean, we like really realized what I was doing to the kids, like helping them learn about the doctors. I think it was great. I think everything was great. I was also. The rest like Riley, but then once I got in here, it was great. Like it was refreshing and everybody took action. Like no matter the station, I think everyone had fun and I think the kids really opened up to after we started asking them like what would you do? Do you want to listen to the heart? Stuff like that? You give him a big hug and say good job.
Student at University of Phoenix
4moWhere are you located?