HOSA Travels to Froedtert Hospital

Last week 20 HOSA students traveled to Froedtert Hospital and participated in multiple activities at the healthcare simulation center.

HOSA is a club at Greendale High School dedicated to introducing and promoting careers in the health sciences to students. HOSA stands for the Health Occupations Students of America and allows students to explore careers through field trips, shadow opportunities, and volunteer experiences. Students also take time to help educate their fellow student body on important health issues from heart disease to breast cancer awareness.

The trip gave many students new perspectives.

“I was able to experience something that most people who visit the hospital don’t have every-day access to,” freshman Adele Servias said. “I got to learn how nurses and doctors are trained for different situations. It made me feel a lot more comfortable knowing that if I were to be admitted to Froedtert, I would be in good hands.”

Most  of the students who attended the field trip plan on pursuing a career in the medical field after graduation and learned a lot during this trip.

“I learned a lot from this trip. I learned how to properly do CPR, use a stethoscope, sort medicine, and study/train using different technology such as virtual reality,” freshman Emma Xiong said. “This trip gave me a great understanding of medicine, technology, and health today, and I will definitely be using this information in my future and studies.”

“The field trip was an opportunity to get a greater understanding of working a hospital environment, and it helped me as a student to walk away with more insight about what I might want to do when I’m older and where I might want to work,” junior Ellen AbadSantos said.

“My favorite activity was using the VR headset to take apart a human skeleton and muscular system.”

By the end of the trip, some students were even able to figure out more about what direction they wanted to go in for college.

“So I was never completely sure if I wanted to go into the medical field because the first career you think of is a nurse or doctor,” sophomore Makayla Neldner said. “If you’re like me, you like to see as little bodily fluids as possible, so these weren’t ideal careers. The field trip showed you don’t even have to be interested in medicine to be needed at a hospital. There are plenty of opportunities to help innovate how medical science is taught and how procedures are carried out. The people who showed us around actually had a teaching degree. I didn’t even think about all of the different type of skills needed in the medical field besides doctors and nurses. Overall, the experience really made me wonder what I wanted to go to college for.”