Cheyney University is expanding its concern with AtlantiCare wellness strategy successful New Jersey to springiness 25 students a weeklong immersive acquisition successful real-world reflection and objective settings to assistance them larn astir wellness vocation paths.
Officials said the programme besides aims to make a much diversified workforce and execute greater wellness equity crossed the portion and successful wellness attraction successful general.
The concern includes a bid of events AtlantiCare is hosting for Cheyney students done August, it was announced during a ceremonial astatine AtlantiCare’s Medical Arts Pavilion successful Atlantic City past week.
The ceremony, which took spot during National Mentoring Month, started with leaders from some organizations welcoming the 25 Cheyney Life Sciences and Technology students. These juniors and seniors person volunteered to walk a week of their wintertime interruption participating successful a unsocial immersive learning accidental with the AtlantiCare team.
Cheyney University students astatine the AtlantiCare wellness strategy arsenic portion a week agelong learning experience. (COURTESY PHOTO)“Our extremity with each collaborative effort is to equip our students to go aboriginal leaders successful the assemblage they are studying and pursuing,” said Aaron Walton, president of Cheyney University. “These partnerships are benefiting our full world community, allowing students and educators to utilize these opportunities to make caller vocation pathways — connected and disconnected the campus. Bringing manufacture leaders to our field and providing avenues for students to entree off-campus partners, similar AtlantiCare, let students to prosecute and get skills for the jobs of tomorrow.”
“Our shared goals see enhancing learning and vocation opportunities for Cheyney students,” said Lori Herndon, AtlantiCare president and CEO. “Our AtlantiCare squad is committed to mentoring these students, introducing them to opportunities, and helping them marque connections for wellness attraction and different careers. We marque definite diversity, equity, and inclusion are portion of everything we bash successful caring for our community. This includes making definite our attraction squad represents the patients we serve.”
During the ceremony, respective Cheyney students spoke astir wherefore they are funny successful wellness attraction careers.
“One of my vocation aspirations is to spell to aesculapian schoolhouse to go a physician,” said Mohamedanwar Idress, a junior, majoring successful biology with a pre-medicine concentration. “I anticipation to specialize successful surgery. Being successful this immersive acquisition astatine AtlantiCare, I’ll person insights astir being successful the aesculapian tract and get a amended knowing of what it genuinely means to beryllium a physician. Being capable to sojourn antithetic departments volition let maine to research antithetic specialties.”
Cheyney University students, from left, Najai Jones, Jasmine Heard, Kayla Thomas and Valerie Lightly connected the AtlantiCare helipad. (COURTESY PHOTO)Emergency services, household medicine and pediatric clinics, intensive attraction unit, aesculapian laboratory sciences, neurosciences institute, nursing, operating room, orthopedics, pediatric, pharmacy, carnal therapy, broad changeable center, surgical services, determination trauma center, radiology, respiratory therapy are immoderate of the antithetic areas and roles Cheyney students volition larn about.
AtlantiCare CEO Herndon presented each pupil with a starfish to reason the ceremony. She explained that AtlantiCare embraces Loren Eiseley’s “The Star Thrower” communicative arsenic a awesome of their committedness to delivering wellness and healing to each radical — 1 idiosyncratic astatine a clip — done trusting relationships.
“This concern brings the champion of what Cheyney is each astir to the champion of what AtlantiCare is each about,” said Herndon. “What matters to each of america arsenic leaders successful wellness attraction and acquisition is that this is simply a large kickoff to what we anticipation volition beryllium a agelong relationship.”
“The vulnerability Cheyney University students are gaining this week is indispensable to the improvement of their individuality arsenic wellness attraction professionals and to positioning them for employment successful wellness attraction settings portion they proceed their grooming for healthcare careers,” Vanessa Atkins, enforcement director, Strategic Partnerships and Career Pathways, Cheyney University.
In the spring, AtlantiCare volition big different radical of Cheyney University students for a learning accidental focused connected societal determinants of health. This acquisition volition connection students a deeper knowing of however AtlantiCare addresses nutrient insecurity though its pantry, HealthPlex and Federally Qualified Health Center, and different assemblage wellness issues.
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