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News from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
“I
Love My Job,” Neonatal Intensive Care Nurse Tells High School
Students
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12, 2002 | "Here, I am in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit) at UAMS, and I love my job," Valerie Beck,
R.N., tells high school students in a new career recruitment
video for Cabot High School.
Health care professionals at UAMS
Medical Center are the stars in the video, designed to
interest ninth-graders in Cabot, Ark., in health careers and a
new "career academy" at Cabot High School.
School administrators will show
the video to about 700 Cabot freshmen this spring to encourage
them to apply for the school's new Medical Academy, which will
open in the fall.
MACH 1 Academy, as it will be known, will be one of 10 career
academies that the Arkansas Department of Education will
sponsor next year with start-up grants of $20,000. The first
five learning academies opened in the state this year. Cabot
chose health care for its field of focus.
"We surveyed students, we surveyed teachers, and we
looked at job projection data in central Arkansas through the
year 2008, and our steering committee chose health
professions," Cabot Assistant Principal Randy Granderson,
M.Ed., said.
Cabot faculty will teach the core subjects of math, English,
science, and social studies in the context of health careers.
Examples and problems will be related to real world situations
in a clinical setting. Academy students will remain in the
program throughout 10th, 11th, and 12th grade.
Granderson and Mike Calvert, an Instructor at Cabot High
School, videotaped interviews in the UAMS Neonatal
Unit with Valerie Beck, RN, and Betty Burton, RRT; in the
Respiratory Care Unit with James Hammons, RRT; in the
Hematology Clinic with Kathy Hatcher, MT; in diagnostic
sonagraphy with Dawna Jones, RDMS, and in the Emergency
Department with Charge Nurse Colleen Jordan, RN.
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Valerie Beck, R.N., talks about her work in the UAMS Neonatal
Intensive Care Unit for a Cabot High School video. Click on
photo for enlarged view.
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Erna Boone, M.Ed., RRT, the
chair of the Department
of Respiratory Care in the College
of Health Related Professions, is a Cabot High School
parent who was appointed to serve on the 26-member MACH 1
Advisory Board after health careers was selected as the area
of focus. "I asked if I could be involved, because I'm
very, very interested in recruiting respiratory
therapists," Boone said. "Kids in general only know
about certain health professions, and this program will allow
them to explore many different professions, many of which have
a large vacancy rate."
Susan Cohen, a student recruiter for the college, also serves
on the Advisory Board. The school hopes to recruit 125
students for the Medical Academy's first class.
Links on This Page
UAMS Medical Center: http://www.uams.edu/medcenter/
Neonatal Unit: http://baby.uams.edu/
Dept. of Respiratory Care: http://www.uams.edu/chrp/res/default.asp
College of Health Related Professions: http://www.uams.edu/chrp/
Mount St. Mary Students Learn Respiratory Care at UAMS:
http://www.uams.edu/today/2002/090402/respiratory_care.htm
Nutrition Expert Calls on Schoolteachers: http://www.uams.edu/today/2002/071002/nutrition.htm
Enrollment Up 12 Percent: http://www.uams.edu/today/112001/enrollment.htm
Audio: Opportunities in Health Related Professions: http://www.uams.edu/htyh/0902/HRP.htm
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