Jeffco students get a hands-on start on healthcare careers
Students from Bear Creek, Golden, and Wheat Ridge high schools shadowed emergency, pharmacy, and lab teams at Lutheran Hospital and practiced Stop the Bleed. Ninety have taken part, and two already have jobs.
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Students from Bear Creek, Golden, and Wheat Ridge high schools spent this week shadowing staff at Lutheran Hospital, CBS Colorado reported. The visits are a Jeffco Public Schools partnership that lets them see healthcare work before graduation. They moved through the emergency room, the pharmacy, and the lab, and they took a Stop the Bleed class.
Career-and-technical student Kenny Chiv said the useful part was watching how the jobs actually feel, including what people like about them. Ninety students have joined or are still in the program, and two have already found jobs through the partnership. The point, the station reported, is that students do not have to wait until after college to step into the field.
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High school students in Jefferson County, Colorado, are spending time inside Lutheran Hospital in Wheat Ridge before they graduate. This week, students from Bear Creek, Golden, and Wheat Ridge high schools followed people who work in the emergency room, the pharmacy, and the lab. They also learned Stop the Bleed, a class on how to help if someone is bleeding badly. Jeffco Public Schools runs the partnership. So far, 90 students have joined or are finishing it, and two have already found jobs through it.
- What could you learn in a hospital that you cannot learn from a textbook?
- Why might it help to try a job before you choose a college major?
- Which hospital job would you want to watch for a day, and why?
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