MED Tech Assists GCS Screenings

Every year, the seniors of Medical Tech Prep along with GHS School Nurse, Mrs. Kathy Jetter, conduct health screenings for all freshmen students within Greenville High School.  Instructor of Med Tech, Mrs. Emily Powers provides her students with instruction on the skills needed in order to conduct the screenings.  “Students are taught proper screening techniques for vision, hearing, height and weight as well as assessing blood pressure,” stated Mrs. Powers.   These screenings provide the freshmen population with an overall measure of their health and baseline knowledge of what these results mean.  The Project Coordinator for the screenings and senior Med Tech student , Madisyn Pieper added, “Conducting the screenings is an event we all look forward to.  We organize, plan and implement the screenings ourselves.  This experience gives us the opportunity to practice the skills we have learned as well as practice bedside manner and how to communicate with our patients”. 

The Med Tech Program has 50 students benefiting from the program.  The students currently enrolled are interested in entering any avenue of the medical field, including: nursing, phlebotomy, physician assistant, pharmacy, physician, among many others. Senior and Med Tech President Holly Cameron stated, “Some people are certain they want to go into pediatrics or become a surgeon, and then they get there and realize that’s not for them.  Med Tech provides us with the opportunity to understand what it takes to be successful in the medical field before we go off to college.  It is helpful to know what you are getting yourself into before you are fully committed”.  Students earn STNA, CPR and First Aid certifications as well as up to twenty articulated credits from Sinclair Community College.