Kaua’i students introduced to healthcare careers - KHON2

LĪHUʻE, Hawai’i (KHON2) — Three nationalist precocious schools connected Kaua’i participated successful a programme with Wilcox Medical Center to present astir 200 precocious schoolhouse students to careers successful the aesculapian tract connected Friday, Nov. 18.

Kapa‘a, Kaua‘i and Waimea precocious schools engaged successful the lawsuit which had provided extended opportunities for the students to conscionable and larn from aesculapian halfway staff.

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“We are arrogant to sponsor this Health Career Fair for our nationalist precocious schoolhouse students. Wilcox is simply a spouse and a assets for our Kaua‘i community, and we instrumentality that work to heart,” said Jen Chahanovich, president and CEO of Wilcox Medical Center and CEO of Kaua‘i Medical Clinic.

Various departments astatine Wilcox Medical Center provided implicit 20 booths with breathtaking exhibitions for students and included:

• Walk done post-operation procedures with perioperative nurses.
• Tests for their grip spot with rehabilitation therapy.
• Disinfecting for their phones acknowledgment to a UV robot from biology services.
• Learning however to use stitches and sutures to a model.

“By introducing young minds to the galore possibilities disposable successful the healthcare vocation field, we anticipation to animate the adjacent procreation of aesculapian professionals and amusement them determination are opportunities for them close present astatine home,” added Chahanovich.

The half-day lawsuit astatine Wilcox and Kaua’i aesculapian clinics allowed students to mingle with healthcare professionals and instrumentality tours of moving aesculapian settings.

“Health vocation fairs similar this assistance exemplify that those providing wellness attraction are not lone nurses
and doctors – they’re radiology techs; they’re radical successful EKG and ultrasound; they’re facilities
maintenance and housekeepers. We are each connected 1 team, and we each enactment unneurotic to instrumentality care
of the patients,” said Darla Sabry, Wilcox’s vice president of diligent services and main nurse
executive.

Kamehameha Schools helped money the Health Career Fair successful their concern to assistance enactment healthcare workforce improvement connected Kaua’i.

“It’s important that students cognize that they don’t person to spell to different islands oregon to the
mainland to get the acquisition needed to enactment successful our community. There are opportunities
available close now, and determination volition beryllium successful the future,” added Sabry.

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“Through collaborative events specified arsenic the Health Career Fair,” Wilcox Health said, “it hopes to supply livable-wage jobs for section people, which successful crook supports section families’ fiscal information and health.”