The “Day in the Life of a Nurse” program afforded more than a dozen high school students to look beyond graduation and into a career in nursing.
Every year, the Nursing Consortium of South Florida, a coalition of hospitals, nursing schools, health care agencies, and foundations, organize the event with the goal to teach students the important work that nurses do and inspire them to prepare and do the same.
Barry University was one of seven schools participating in the program, which is dominated by hospital participation. Those include Jackson Memorial, Baptist, Memorial, and Miami Children’s, among several others.
In its sixteenth year running, the Nursing Consortium of South Florida organized about 1,500 students from 54 schools who visited 53 institutions. Students learned how to perform duties such as taking a person’s blood pressure and pulse and listening to their heart beat through a stethoscope.
"One Profession, Many Careers" was the theme for 2015 to impress on area youth the growing number of career options for nurses and the unique opportunities that nurses have over other professionals in achieving work-life balance.
At Barry, professors Dr. Umadhay, Dr. Colvin, Dr. Owen, Samson-Mojares, Dr. Newman, Schwal, and, Jaffe created mock emergency scenarios in the center’s patient room where a simulated mannequin, also known as “simMAN,” takes on the personality of a patient who is injured. There, they learned proper technique and manners when dealing with a patient.
For more information visit www.nursingconsortium.us/.