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Show Carbon class offers 20 students exposure to health career fields By JOE F. ROLANDO JR. Staff Writer While Freddie is growing up, he may say he wants to be a policeman, then a fireman and finally a doctor or dentist. But his decision may have come only after much thought and even heartache. That is, if he did not take Health Careers at Carbon High School. The class aims, among other things, to explore students needs and interests in choosing health careers. Betty Kobe, who has been teaching the class for three years, took the story further. She told about the young woman in her class who felt so sure she would be a dental assistant that she even had a copy of a dental assistants work book. But after working in a dentists office during her experiences in the Health Careers class she decided to become a nurse. If we served this purpose then its worth it. The students are in health related careers enough during this class to make that decidsion, Mrs. Kobe declared. The class, state funded through Vocational Educations does more than expose students to health careers. Mrs. Kobe said it also tries to make students more aware of the health needs of people and develop in them a practical base of knowledge, attitudes and skills about health. Becky Tomsic, one of the 20 students, said the class tells what is going on in the world of health. It also makes you aware of and feelings teaches you how to cope with illness. It has given me a lot of experience, she peoples added. semester the students spent two class days each week observing and helping children and the elderly. She was referring to the i . These experiences came from Durrant Elementary School, Notre Dame the speech thereapy program with Jeff Miller, Mrs. Himonass special class at Carbon High School and the Carbon Wednesday, May 4, f.lountfain View Landscaping 236 b. 2fcd.South in Price Phone 637-303- 5 County Nursing Home. This prepared students to select work areas of their choice Quality Merchandise Reasonable Prices the second during semester, such as Carbon District 5th Hospital, Juvenile Mrs. Himonass class and the officies of three area dentists. Three lection 1977 and Hurscry Court, students of the talked about their ex- periences. Health Careers class instructor Betty Kobe watches students Tricia (right) take Dena Branch's blood pressure. David Young, who plans to be a dentist, said he was the with impressed Huff Medical Emergency Save Water! H Technicians at Carbon High School. Jerri Lynn Lodeserto, who wants to be a nurse, said the pay for nursing home personnel should be Soil Penetrating I raised as a better incentive to work. She said she recognized the difficulty of caring for the aged within the limitations of the staff. Cifli trips do not stand alone. Mrs. Kobe, a registered nurse who holds a bachelors of science degree, said she stresses both the students and the patients minds, emotions, bodies, spirits and social beings to emphasize the field The Gypsum I ft ; Zi v 7 i r I! 0 . Mother's Day Suggestions o Geraniums in Bloom o Flowering Shrubs o Shade Trees N. Class listens attentively to Health Careers teacher Betty Kobe. As the class progresses, What do the students careers. She said a person I find areas where were think of Mrs. Kobes who wants to enter the helping fields of health to lacking and one area is the methods? and including the bacdiscussion of medical terms. I think a dentists, for Tomsic said, You really calaureate level has one m four chances of getting into example, needs to offer have to be very responsible some criteria of what he with her. A lot of teachers school. Theyve become would expect a dental dont expect as much as she very selective. More than one girls heart has been assistant to learn, she does from me said. Young said, You go broken And the schools just through a lot of material cannot educate all who Also, Mrs. Kobe wants to and its very tough want to learn, she added. increase her group circle Everything is on a Thats where the class concept to include more schedule and everything comes in. It aims to take student interaction. must be turned in Students now form a circle away the uncertainty most face when making to discuss articles about youths Behind Mrs. Kobes health careers in Readers concepts is her strong decisions that will affect about Digest. health their future. feelings total person. People in the community have been tremendous in making presentations about their health careers to the class and in providing field trips, she said. EMT Supervisor Carlos Romero, for example, gave classes in Resuscitation (CPR). 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