Health Fairs
I think having multiple health fairs to get your students out in the community and working hard toward their goal to be in the health care field and actually seeing people satisfied by getting their vitals taken can be very satisfying. What do you think?
Hi Maikel,
Another benefit is sometimes students have a hard time distinguishing between the classroom setting and real world application. The health fairs allow an opportunity to begin to venture out in a surrogate work setting, and get to experience what they've been learning in class (and lab or clinic).
Barry Westling
I think the health fairs are very important for students can develop skills they can direct patients to apply what they learned in school, practice is the criterion of truth, really these events provide an important space for the future d professional students, in my experience they have been very pleased with people able to practice their knowledge.
We took a class out to our local health fair to do the blood draws not vitals, but the students were so excited to be drawing on "real" people instead of each other or fellow students. They were able to get the feel of how it would be to become a phlebotomist or being able to be a lab person in the medical office. They were able to work on their soft skills, the blood draw skills the feel of being on their feet for several hours doing the same thing over and over again. Also the people coming in the have their blood drawn were happy at the students skill level which was better than the local college nursing program. They got a lot of compliments and that just boosted their confidence level tremendously.
