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Selah Students have Heart!

Several Selah High School students participated in the Center of Excellences', Allied Health Educational Job Shadow Symposium at Yakima Valley Community College on March 25.

Selah High School requires students to participate in a job shadow to help expose them to the many different career opportunities available to them. A job shadow is part of their High School & Beyond Plan graduation requirement to help students plan what education or job skills they will need to achieve their dream career after they graduate.

Cierra Crowell (shown below holding a human heart) attended seminars titled Cardiac Hands-On, Suturing 101, and Give Me a Break…Learn to Cast. In these “mini-clinics”, students participated in applying the skills they were learning during the day-long event from both nurses and doctors from across the State.

For Cierra , the hands on job shadow experience confirmed her desire to enter the medical profession when she graduates from SHS. “It was so cool  to actually experience as a Junior some of the things I won’t be doing until later in college”. Cierra learned about the inner workings of the human heart, got to make an arm cast and the doctor in charge of “Suturing 101” commented that Cierra’s sutures were the “best sutures he had ever seen”.

For Cierra and other students participating in the day-long clinic, it was a fantastic opportunity for them to realize that their “dream careers” are within their grasp when plans are followed. “I thought it was going to be super hard to learn (suture techniques) but after the doctor explained it and showed us how, it wasn’t that hard…I can do this” said Cierra.