The Coshocton County Beacon October 17, 2018 - Page 23

OCTOBER 17, 2018
THE BEACON 23
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Students exposed to healthcare and fi rst responder careers
By Josie Sellers
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COSHOCTON – Dallas Byrd and Briana Adkins had the
opportunity to practice listening to heartbeats and
checking pulses thanks to a new program hosted by the
Coshocton County Chamber of Commerce.
Th e fi rst healthcare/fi rst responder day for area high
school students was held Oct. 12. One of the stops on
the students tours were the nursing labs at the COTC
Coshocton Campus.
“Th e simulators and hearing the heart beat was pretty
cool,” said Byrd, who is a sophomore at Ridgewood High
School.
He is thinking about going into the Marines after high
school, but Adkins is possibly considering a career in
nursing.
“Hearing the heartbeat was a highlight,” she said.
In addition to COTC, the students also visited the
Coshocton Regional Medical Center, Coshocton Fire
Department, Coshocton County Emergency Medical
Services, and heard from the Ohio State Highway Patrol
and Coshocton County Sheriff ’s Offi ce K-9 unit.
Brandi Lohr, a junior at River View, signed up for the
day because she’s interested in a career in radiology.
She was impressed with what she learned about the
programs COTC off ers at its four campuses.
“I didn’t know how many classes they off er over the
four campuses,” Lohr said. “I’m hoping I can go to
school somewhere close.”
Patty Vatter was looking forward to visiting the hospi-
tal.
Josie Sellers | Beacon
Briana Adkins got some hands-on nursing experience
during the recent healthcare/fi rst responder day for
area high school students.
“I want to be a surgeon so hopefully I get to talk to
someone there about that,” said the River View High
School junior.
However, she was impressed with what she learned at
COTC.
“Nurses do a lot more than I thought they do,” Vat-
ter said. “Th ey do a wide range of things and we were
shown that.”
One of the people who showed the students around
the nursing lab was Annie Carpenter from the nursing
program.
“We wanted to expose young people to our profession
and show them the tools we use and how we learn with
them,” she said. “Th is gave them a real look at nursing
school and what it’s about.”
Carpenter showed the students mannequins they use
and explained how diff erent health situations can be
simulated with them.
“When you take students to a hospital you are limited
to the patients they have in their care,” she said. “With
these you can simulate diff erent things and they get to
experience how to react to that.”
More than 120 students signed up for the event.
“Th e Coshocton County Chamber of Commerce along
with business partners from the Coshocton Port Author-
ity and Ohio Means Jobs-Coshocton County learned
fi rst-hand during industry visits with local companies of
the challenges they face in hiring skilled employees, so
we thought exposing our area youth to the outstanding
careers would be very benefi cial to both the students
and organizations,” said Amy Stockdale, executive
director of the Coshocton County Chamber.
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