SLIDE SHOW: Students learn in the ins and outs of health care at nurse camp
By DENNIS BOX
Covington Reporter Regional Editor
July 12, 2009 · 8:39 PM
Kelly Heagerty, a junior from Kentlake High, spent a week at the MultiCare Nurse Camp learning about the health care field from doctors, nurses and staff.
"It was cool to come here and see what I can do," Heagerty said. "I think I want to work with kids and babies."
Jacqueline Kowalski, a junior from Kentwood, also attended the camp and said it was "great, I learned a lot.”
Kowalski said she was familiar with the health care field because her mom works as an intensive care unit nurse.
Theresa Renico, one of the registered nurses advising Kowalski and the other students said, "There are day when it is not great and then there are day when I know that this is why I became a nurse."
This is the sixth annual camp offered to students by MultiCare. According to spokesman Todd Kelly, more than 100 students were involved in the camp from Pierce, south King and Thurston counties.
The program was sponsored by Standard Textiles and Owen & Minor, as well as the Optimist Club of Tacoma—West Side.
Contact Covington Reporter Regional Editor Dennis Box at dbox@maplevalleyreporter.com or 425-432-1209 ext. 5050.Comment on this story.
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