The Washington County Career Center hosts health care career fair

MARIETTA, Ohio (WTAP) – The Washington County Profession Heart held its annual well being care profession truthful this Friday.

One scholar stated of the expertise, “It’s positively excessive power. It’s positively excessive power. Everybody’s like ‘Oh my gosh I would like to do that! Oh my gosh I would like to do this!’”

Washington County and Williamstown juniors and seniors gathered to satisfy with employers and get fingers on coaching.

A collaborating scholar stated, “We additionally went to the medical aiding the phlebotomy lecture rooms to find out how to stay the arms for phlebotomy and likewise to present muscular injections.”

College students additionally ran by way of eventualities with a affected person simulator, realized about medical billing and coding, and even simulated surgical procedure on an artificial cadaver.

Medical Packages supervisor Erica Chidester elaborated on the artificial cadaver, “We really can lower it. You recognize, they – it has organs in it and so they can really feel the organs and so they get that actual life expertise of what it’s going to be like within the O.R.”

Chidester hopes the occasion helps college students get a greater image of what they’ll do with their lives.

“It’s essential that they perceive the completely different pathways that they’ve and choices that they’ve in medical as soon as they graduate highschool and that’s what this occasion is for,” she stated.

There’s a number of native demand for well being care jobs within the space, in line with Chidester. Over 12 employers had been on the truthful.

“Well being care doesn’t shut down. The necessity is there on a regular basis so, the extra individuals we’ve in well being care and the extra we will prepare and get staff on the market for the employers, the higher off our neighborhood goes to be,” Chidester stated.

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