New Visions: Health Professions

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my name is kimberly petronella i'm the

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health occupations

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coordinator which means i'm the new

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visions health instructor and i

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coordinate the nurse assisting program

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i'm also the work-based learning

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coordinator here at united her madison

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boces

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i've been teaching here this is my 24th

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year i'm a former student of an idaho

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madison boces i graduated from here in

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1988 with my lpn

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so i'm truly a big big proponent of

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career and technical education and where

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it can lead you into the future

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i have worked all over the place i've

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worked in long-term care acute care

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critical care emergency care so i kind

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of have a little dabble of everything

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when

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from my career base for my i guess we

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would call them my qualifications i'm

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not even sure

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welcome to the new visions health

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occupations classroom actually this is

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the lab portion

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of the classroom new visions health is a

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senior only

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program where students can come and

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explore different health careers

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nameless all different types of health

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careers and they also learn government

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economics

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we also have english 101 through mvcc

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with our english instructor we have

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personal finance with our math

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instructor both of those are college

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level courses where they can earn

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college credit

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we also incorporated medical terminology

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through mvcc which the students will

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learn

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here and they can also get three credits

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for that through mvcc

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and then they we also are doing college

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foundations

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so if they do attend mvcc that class

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will be

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done for them so they're going to do a

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lot of college prep

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work they also do government and

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economics in here and they get their

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english 12 credit

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on top of learning health concepts so

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it's a very busy classroom it requires a

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student to be

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ready to take on a lot of extra

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responsibility but do it in a fun

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way it's not overwhelming it just learns

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it

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teaches the student how to become ready

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to schedule

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themselves and properly organize

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themselves and prepare them to go on to

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college which many of them are

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so here in my lab this is where the

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students will work with me

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and what they'll do is they will learn

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basic nursing skills they'll work with

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their partners

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and each of them will take turns

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learning different nursing basic nursing

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skills

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and then they'll practice with one

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another and then they get competencies

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which means that's when i watch them do

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this skill

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by working in the lab what will help

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them especially students

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are going off to nursing school pt ot

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any of those programs they're going to

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have a nice

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basic knowledge base of what some skill

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skills are that we do with our patients

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so when they go to college they'll

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feel more ready they'll feel more

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comfortable so when they go into their

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labs at the college level

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they would have seen that before they

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would have participated in that before

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i'm comfortable with that and it might

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give them a step up versus other

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students who've never had the lab

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exposure that the students would have

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had so we work in here

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as often as possible you know in in

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in between doing all of our course

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theory work then

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they wear their lab coats both here in

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the classroom

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and when we go out clinically when we go

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out clinically we go out three days a

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week

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on tuesday wednesdays and thursdays and

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we go out to local hospitals

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uh hopefully once the large hospital is

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ready to go in a few years we'll be

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going there of course

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to the larger hospital we also go to

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ambulance companies

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local nursing homes a bunch of other

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different places for internship

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so the students can work with

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professionals in the field

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and learn how to be successful in those

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different careers

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but also give them a wide variety of

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different health careers so

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they aren't pigeon holed into one thing

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because many kids really don't know what

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they want to do so we're trying to help

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them find that way

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or maybe it will solidify exactly what

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they want to do

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this year i have a bunch of students who

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are very interested in nursing

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so of course they're really into working

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in the lab and doing

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all the lab skills but i also have a

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bunch of kids who are interested in

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therapy and they're really excited to

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learn all the lab skills too because

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those are skills they are

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going to use when they get out into the

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world of work

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hopefully you know following college so

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we do have a classroom side i can show

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you that too

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so in the classroom side and

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this could change i could be in a whole

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new room next year you never know

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so for this year this is our classroom

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size

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um the students all work over here we

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have chromebooks they

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log on to them we do stuff both

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online and in person because we do both

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of those

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interchangeably so the students will

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work doing a daily journal

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opening up different lecture style notes

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we do lecture over here actually more i

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call it class discussion because we try

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to discuss together

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we do a lot of projects we just finished

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doing a debate

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so i make sure we do a lot of group work

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i think that's very important that the

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students work together and develop that

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teamwork skill

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so that they're able to easily transfer

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that when they go on to college and then

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definitely when they go on into the

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workplace

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we don't really work independently in

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here we make sure it's a group

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effort for everyone so when we're on

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this side of the classroom or this side

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of the room

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this is where all the theory takes place

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primarily

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a lot of our group work takes place over

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here

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when we're in the lab where i showed you

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previously that's when we're doing our

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skill base

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activities our skill based work we

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interchangeably use

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online and in person like i said so the

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students can feel comfortable because

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in healthcare everything has pretty much

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gone to the online

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world of documentation and such what

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that's pretty much my program what we do

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here