Cabot High Crew Does Video of UAMS Health Professionals
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LITTLE ROCK – “Here, I am in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) at UAMS, and I love my job,” Valerie Beck, R.N., tells high school students in a new career recruitment video for Cabot High School.
Health care professionals at UAMS Medical Center are the stars in the video, designed to interest ninth-graders in Cabot, Ark., in health careers and a new “career academy” at Cabot High School.
School administrators will show the video to about 700 Cabot freshmen this spring to encourage them to apply for the school’s new Medical Academy, which will open in the fall.
MACH 1 Academy, as it will be known, will be one of 10 career academies that the Arkansas Department of Education will sponsor next year with start-up grants of $20,000. The first five learning academies opened in the state this year. Cabot chose health care for its field of focus.
“We surveyed students, we surveyed teachers, and we looked at job projection data in central Arkansas through the year 2008, and our steering committee chose health professions,” Cabot Assistant Principal Randy Granderson, M.Ed., said.
Cabot faculty will teach the core subjects of math, English, science, and social studies in the context of health careers. Examples and problems will be related to real world situations in a clinical setting. Academy students will remain in the program throughout 10th, 11th, and 12th grade.
Granderson and Mike Calvert, an Instructor at Cabot High School, videotaped interviews in the UAMS Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with Valerie Beck, RN, and Betty Burton, RRT; in the Respiratory Care Unit with James Hammons, RRT; in the Hematology Clinic with Kathy Hatcher, MT; in diagnostic sonagraphy with Dawna Jones, RDMS, and in the Emergency Department with Charge Nurse Colleen Jordan, RN.