Summer VolunTeen and VolunJag applications now open to students interested in health care careers - Jagwire – Augusta

Augusta University Volunteer Services and Community Engagement’s summertime VolunTeen and VolunJag programs are present accepting applications from students funny successful careers successful wellness care.

Through VolunJag and VolunTeen, precocious schoolhouse and assemblage students are fixed a unsocial accidental to unpaid with Augusta University Medical Center and service alongside aesculapian professionals, each portion making a quality successful the lives of patients, families and staff. Those who implicit the programme tin expect to summation invaluable skillsets that volition maximize their imaginable for aboriginal wellness attraction careers.

The VolunTeen programme is unfastened to rising precocious schoolhouse juniors and seniors who are astatine slightest 16 years old. The VolunJag programme is for existent Augusta University students.

“Our summertime VolunTeen and VolunJag programme has been beneficial to students desiring a vocation successful wellness attraction owed to the wrong look astatine our AU Health facilities,” said Shayna Crawford, unpaid engagement coordinator. “For many, gaining vulnerability successful real-time aesculapian settings isn’t achieved until their 3rd twelvemonth of school, depending connected the program.”

Both programs springiness a firsthand look astatine the roles of aesculapian professionals, allowing students to sorb their cognition and go acquainted with due practices successful wellness attraction today. Students volition get a accidental to amended their connection and enactment skills by moving wrong antithetic sectors of the aesculapian center.

“With this experience, they person an contiguous accidental to not lone summation exposure, but besides beryllium provided hands-on grooming that volition fortify their knowing of the diligent acquisition and collaboratively moving with a nonrecreational wellness attraction team,” said Crawford.

The deadline for applications is Thursday March 2. Students funny successful either programme oregon those with questions tin telephone 706-721-3596 oregon email Volunteer Services and Community Engagement.