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Your opportunities to explore health careers as a student
are growing! Here are a few of the programs you may enroll
in:
1. If you are a student in Rutland, you may
be able to participate in an exciting program at the Stafford
Technical Center called the Health Careers Academy:
Participating students have the opportunity to:
- Explore new directions in health care careers
- Earn college credit during high school - tuition free!
- Graduate from high school with valuable skills and certification
- Gain real world experience, for pay
This in-depth two-year program is made possible by a partnership
with Castleton State College, Rutland Regional Medical Center,
and Southern Vermont AHEC. For more information, email healthcareers@rutlandhs.k12.vt.us,
or call Kristen Jarvi at the Stafford Technical Center at
802-773-1990.
2. Vital Signs - Directions in Nursing This
1 week program at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital introduces
local high school students to carreer opportunities in nursing.
Participating students will:
- Job shadow up to 12 different nurses, including
LPN, acute care nursing, home health, long-term care, and
specialty nursing care
- Visit up to 3 nursing school programs in the area
- Receive 1 independent study credit from Brattleboro Union
High School
For more information, contact Jane Yetter Lunt at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital: 802-257-8216.
3. Summer Tech Camp - This summer camp in Springfield
offers kids (going into seventh and eighth grades) a hands
on look at careers. The participants learn about first aid,
web page design, culinary arts, recording studio and sound
design, and even creating T-shirts. These activities are combined
with touring local educational centers, and encourages students
to start thinking about their skills and interests.
This
is an exciting time in a health care - we are in the middle
of a health care revolution that is changing how people stay
healthy. Health care workers can combine a passion for people
with cutting-technology.
There
are many exciting career choices in medicine, nursing, physical
therapy, social work, dentistry, and many more fields.
A great tool for investigating health careers is the Health
Careers Directory, published by Vermont AHEC.
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"Nursing is the best job in the world!
- making people better and saving lives! I'd do
this for free, I like it so much"
Edmund Bard, Registered Nurse/ Staff Nurse in
the Emergency Department of Springfield Hospital
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