Warsaw Area Career Center Spotlight: Bowen Center Health Clinic
Intern #1: Hadley Burbrink
Parents: Aaron and Rachel Burbrink
What are your job responsibilities: During the day some of my responsibilities consist of rooming patients, doing their intakes, CLIA waved labs and tests, taking vital signs and helping out providers.
How has this position been helpful to you? This job has taught me so much already and it’s only been a little over two months. It is preparing me for nursing school and I’ve expanded my skills already. The best decision I made in high school was to take my CCMA junior year and utilize my skills in Work-Based-Learning my senior year.
What have you learned? I have learned a lot about the healthcare field in general, but mostly good patient care and how to help the patient to the best of my ability. I have learned a lot being in a clinic and being around patients on a daily basis. I’m a hands-on learner, so this is helping me a lot to be able to actually work in this setting.
How is this job preparing you for the future? This is going to help me tremendously in nursing school. I learned a lot throughout my classes at the high school. This job has expanded on that and being able to use my skills.
What do you like about this job? I enjoy being able to help patients on a daily basis. I enjoy learning much more about the nursing and healthcare profession. I love my co-workers and staff. They are very helpful and are always willing to answer my questions. Katie Berg, who trained me, has been very helpful and a great person to learn from at the clinic. I hope to be as good of a nurse as her one day.
What Career Center classes have you taken in your pathway? Principles of Healthcare, Medical Terminology, Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA)
Your Career and College Plans: I plan to go to college for nursing, and my college is undecided.
Warsaw Area Career Center Intern #2: Morgan Himes
Parents: Matt & Rachelle Himes
What are your job responsibilities: I check patients into clinic, help give injections, take vital signs, do PA’s and help out wherever is needed.
How has this position been helpful to you? This position has opened my eyes to a different career pathway. I would have never thought about being a NP and working in the psychology world. I recently shadowed a NP on the Psych side at Bowen and she made me have a different perspective on psychology.
What have you learned? I have learned to communicate better with strangers and feel more comfortable with my knowledge.
How is this job preparing you for the future? This job has prepared me for my future in being a nurse by making me more comfortable with patients and in my skills as a medical assistant.
What do you like about this job? I like this job at the Bowen Center because I can learn something new every day and have good friendships with the girls I work with.
What Career Center classes have you taken in your pathway? PLTW Honors Biomedical Sciences, Dual Credit Medical Terminology
Your Career and College Plans: I want to be a psychiatrist NP and attend Vanderbilt University.
Supervisor Input
Supervisor's Name: Jennifer Carmona
How is this job preparing this student for the future? It will help them gain the experience needed to work in health clinic.
What do you think of the WACC Work-Based Learning program? I feel it is a great program to help students learn jobs.
Why were you willing to partner with the WACC in this program? My directors thought it would be helpful and beneficial for the students to learn how to work and function in a health clinic.