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Facilitating Career Awareness
Brown Bag Lunch
- St. Vincent Memorial Hospital, Taylorville
In partnership with Lincoln Land Community College, has designated a day
at the local high school for a certain modality - for example, "Radiology"
day. The high school provides classrooms during the lunch hour. The hospital
“staffs” the classroom with one or two staff technicians to meet and greet any
interested students. The students receive information regarding the hospital,
career, and a "class path" that identifies what classes he/she should take in
high school/college for a career path in radiology. The hospital also provides
a brown bag lunch to any interested student who visits the hospital and
establishes contact with the staff.
Community Courses
- Greenville Regional Hospital, Greenville
- Offers a CPR program to staff and community several times throughout the
year.
- Offers eight-week Yoga classes to staff at no charge and a nominal fee to
the community.
- Hosts several monthly support groups: Diabetes Support Group, Parkinson's
Disease Support Group, and a Dementia Caregivers Support Group.
- Offers yearly babysitting classes to students age 11 and older.
- Hosts an annual Health Fair providing health care education and screening to
the community, with attendance of over 3,000 community members.
- Hillsboro Area Hospital, Hillsboro
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Unemployed adults are exposed to health care career presentations for
potential future employment.
- Beginning October 2005, the onsite Fusion Fitness and Aquatics program
is offered to young people.
Day Care Support
- Hillsboro Area Hospital, Hillsboro
- Offers onsite daycare for children through grade school years. Tours are
encouraged and promoted throughout the year.
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Supplies the hospital day care program with health profession toys, such as
stethoscopes, scrub hats and boots, ambulances, medicine bags, etc.
Grade School Student Tours
- Edward Hospital, Naperville
Hosts hospital tours and promotes health care career opportunities to students
of all ages, families, and the community by hosting a "Healthcare Career
Discovery Day."
- Hillsboro Area Hospital, Hillsboro
Offers school age children hospital tours to various departments, also
included are job shadowing in non-confidential areas, and health career fair
presentations.
- Pana Community Hospital, Pana
Hosts annual hospital tour for 1st grade students. Upon request, tours are
provided for other grade levels.
High School Careers
- Hillsboro Area Hospital, Hillsboro
The Director of Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation is an athletic trainer for
two local high schools. His involvement with them promotes physical therapy as
a career.
- St. John's Hospital, Springfield
Offers job shadowing to eligible high school students for careers in health
care.
High School Counselor Brochure
- Red Bud Regional Hospital, Red Bud
Created a brochure for school counselors that
highlight health care jobs. Also identifies career credentials, education, and
skills that are necessary for a health care career.
- St. John's Hospital, Springfield
Created a brochure for school counselors that highlight health care jobs. Also
identifies entry level career credentials, education, and skills that are
necessary for a health care career.
High School Student Tours
- Greenville Regional Hospital, Greenville
Offers high school student tours who are interested in health care careers.
- St. John's Hospital, Springfield
Offers high school student tours who are interested in health care careers.
Internship
- Condell Medical Center, Libertyville
Penwasciz is a medical program especially designed for high school students.
This yearly program, pronounced "Pen-Wah-Zee," combines items that health care
workers always carry; a pen, watch, and scissors. Penwasciz students are
encouraged to pursue a health care career.
- Hamilton Memorial Hospital District, McLeansboro
A two-week Summer Intern Program allows high school and college students an
orientation opportunity that rotates through nursing, radiology, physical
therapy, laboratory, and surgery.
- Hillsboro Area Hospital, Hillsboro
Formed a clinical agreement/educational partnership with the local school
systems for a one-year CNA program. Yearly, 14 to 15 high school juniors and
seniors successfully complete the CNA program.
- Pana Community Hospital, Pana
A student summer health care internship is provided by the Pana Community
Hospital Auxiliary. This eight-week program allows students to work in
multiple departments.
- Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago
Partners with four local high schools to provide exposure to health care
careers.
- Southern Illinois Healthcare (Hamilton Memorial Hospital District,
McLeansboro; Harrisburg Medical
Center, Harrisburg; Herrin Hospital, Herrin; Memorial Hospital of Carbondale,
Carbondale; St. Joseph Memorial
Hospital, Murphysboro; and, St. Mary’s Good Samaritan Inc.,
Centralia)
Offers a 5 to 6-week hands-on learning Summer Internship Program, working two or
three days per week shadowing a medical technologist, physical therapist,
occupational therapist, registered nurse, respiratory therapist, radiologic
technologist, or pharmacist. All interns must complete a hospital
orientation.
- St. John's Hospital, Springfield
Internship positions are available for a variety of positions.
- St. Mary’s Good Samaritan, Inc., Centralia
Offers a 16-week critical care internship and a 20-week medical/surgical
internship for both new and experienced nurses who are re-entering the
workforce. Limited internship opportunities also exist in surgery.
Interviewing Skills
- Hillsboro Area Hospital, Hillsboro
Local Girl Scouts recently earned their "Career" badges by interviewing
hospital professionals.
Mentoring/Job Shadowing
- Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, Downers Grove
Offers opportunities for associates and students (high school and college), to shadow
employees in various job classifications and departments. Students observe the role of the health care
professionals first-hand.
- Greenville Regional Hospital, Greenville
Short-term experiences, not to exceed eight hours, allows an individual to
observe staff in their regular job duties. Students enrolled in formal health
care academic programs may be considered for clinical rotations and practicums
in all areas.
- Hamilton Memorial Hospital District, McLeansboro
- Collaborates with local high schools and Rend Lake College to promote
awareness of health care career opportunities and to increase the number of
potential nursing candidates. All freshmen through seniors are required to
attend.
- Hospital representatives from Laboratory, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Physical
Therapy departments visit Hamilton County Junior High School to talk with
students about the importance of math and science in health care careers.
- Pana Community Hospital, Pana
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Collaborates with Pana Community School District and Lake Land College
offers high school students a full semester to observe multiple hospital
departments.
If a choice is not specified, the student will be exposed to several hospital
departments.
- In conjunction with Lake Land College, offers a "Men in Nursing" health care
program to junior high and high school male students.
- Pekin Hospital, Pekin
Encourages job shadowing for prospective employees and partners with local
high schools offering students job shadow opportunities. Also participates in
several "job fairs" and health care career days. An awareness program is being
developed for junior high.
- Pinckneyville Community Hospital, Pinckneyville
Exposes students to health care careers through job shadowing in various
departments.
- Saint Anthony's Health Center, Alton
Exposes junior high and senior high school students
to health care job responsibilities, work culture, and mission of the
Health Center. A pre-employment job shadowing opportunity is available to
anyone who desires to learn more about a health care career.
- St. John's Hospital, Springfield
- Short-term experiences, not to exceed sixteen hours, allows an individual
to observe staff in their regular job duties. Students who are enrolled in
formal health care academic programs may be considered for clinical rotations
and practicums in all areas.
- Encourages job shadowing for prospective employees and partners with local
high schools offering students job shadow opportunities. Also participates in
several "job fairs" and health care career days. An awareness program is being
developed for junior high.
- Taylorville Memorial Hospital, Taylorville
- SCRUBS I: 8th Grade Students
Eighth-grade students attend an after school program one day a week that
introduces various health care careers that focus on one medical specialty
each week, such as; Physical Therapy, Nursing, Pharmacy, Radiology, and
Laboratory. The students spend approximately 90 minutes each week job-shadowing
in the various departments. The goal of the program is to get the word out to
the community’s teenagers that health care offers very rewarding and worthwhile
careers. The program is a joint collaboration between Taylorville Memorial
Hospital and Lincoln Land
Community College and is offered to students at no cost.
- SCRUBS II: High School Students
In conjunction with Lincoln Land Community College and Taylorville High School,
the hospital hosts a “brown bag luncheon” for high school students each year.
The hospital’s staff is available in a classroom during the lunch hour at the
designated high school to provide material and information to students
interested in specific health care careers. The college provides brown bag
lunches to the students who participate as well as provides them with a “career
path” guide to help them map out their future classes/college courses for a
future in a health care career. Students are invited to the hospital soon after
the brown bag luncheon to participate in a half-day job-shadowing session in
departments in which they are interested.
Middle and High School Career Fair
- OSF St. Joseph Medical Center, Bloomington
Created a brochure identifying nursing as a career choice for junior high
students, high school students, parents, and counselors.
Pre-School Student Tours
- Greenville Regional Hospital, Greenville
Hosts Mr. Body/Mr. Bones tours to pre-school students. The program identifies
seven stations about staying healthy.
- Hillsboro Area Hospital, Hillsboro
Offers pre-school children annual hospital tours focusing on health awareness
training including hand washing.
Summer Programs
- Hillsboro Area Hospital, Hillsboro
Summer youth volunteer opportunities are available offering increased
awareness.
- St. John's Hospital, Springfield
Summer youth volunteer opportunities area available offering increase
awareness.
The Other Side of the Stethoscope
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A health care career education program, targeting seventh graders and developed
by a partnership among the Chicago Tribune, Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council
(MCHC), Chicago
Workforce Board, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Math and Science Initiative,
American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration, Illinois
Hospital Association, and Illinois
Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity provides a learning opportunity
for middle school students. The goal is to sustain and create increased
awareness of career opportunities in health care and develop mechanisms to
support and monitor collaborative hospital/school programs in Chicago.
The "Other Side of the Stethoscope" is an innovative eight-week program
directed at Chicago public school 7th graders and their parents to increase
junior high students' awareness of health care careers. The initiative was
prompted by research revealing that career decisions are often determined by
the 8th grade. Studies have shown that young people who are made aware of
health care as a career opportunity at an early enough age will likely make
appropriate class choices in high schools to match a health care career. The students are
introduced to problem solving and creative thinking skills that are used every
day by health care professionals.
The Tribune's Health Care Career supplement is integrated into
Chicago's math and science curriculum requiring students to go to Tribune
materials for the answers. The program's initial effort in 2005 involved 400
schools and 43,000 students.
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