Busy week!

SCRUBS Camp 2019

I've been on the run this week coordinating the hospital based SCRUBS health career summer camp. What a great group of teenagers! It makes me feel good about the future of healthcare and reassured that there will be good people in place to take care of me when I need it. So many of my co-workers took time from busy schedules to share their knowledge. We made the Post & Courier this morning and ABC 4 last night. Thanks team!

Welcoming the future of healthcare

SCRUBS Camp 2018

It is the time of year when we welcome high energy students interested in exploring health careers into our hospitals. They are a wonderful and brilliant group. I may not come up for air until Friday afternoon! 

Future healthcare professionals

SCRUBS Camp 2017   

Meet the good folks who will be managing your health in the future. These students all applied, wrote essays and had their teachers recommend them for the annual SCRUBS health career camp and we are having a wonderful time! It will be an action packed week. 

My week so far

SCRUBS Camp 2015, Charleston, SC 

Meet your future health care providers. We are fortunate that smart, caring young people still want to go into health care. In this group are students intending to be oncologists, surgeons, physician assistants, neonatal nurses and gastroenterologists. Sadly, no one mentioned wanting to be my plastic surgeon.

Today I rented a bus and took the entire group on a field trip to Trident Technical College where they hosted us and opened all their health career labs letting the students try their hands at pharmacy, dental, medical assistant careers and best of all the very cool simulator mannequins. All in all a very good day.

Now, ask me if I am tired? Heheh. Yawn.

SCRUBS Camp 2014

SCRUBS Camp 2014, Charleston, S.C.

You won't be hearing much from me this week. I am den mother for twenty two eager young people interested in health careers.

We've already toured, learned CPR, first aid, done rotations in Physical Therapy and Radiation and explored the hospital on a scavenger hunt. Be on alert Trident Tech! We are heading your way on a bus tomorrow morning to check out the health career labs.

SCRUBS Camp is in session!

SCRUBS Camp 2013

This is the happy gang I am spending the week with. Each year I sponsor a SCRUBS Health Career Camp at Roper St. Francis Healthcare. I intend to make their heads spin! So far so good. I am den mother to the gang at St. Francis Hospital while Cathy Hallman Kenner shepherds our guests at Roper Hospital.

I am hoping these students will take care of my when I am old and frail. :) Meanwhile, I'd better get to bed so I'll have enough energy to keep up with them in the morning. G'night kids!

SCRUBS Camp Field Trip Day

SCRUBS Camp 2012, Charleston, S.C.

I will return to regular programing shortly but for this week I am consumed with forty four teenagers who think they want to work in healthcare. I love 'em! Today I arranged a bus to pick them all up and we took a field trip to Trident Technical College. They opened up all their health career labs for the kids to explore including the very cool simulator mannequin lab.

Take a close look at the background in the shot above. There is no real equipment in the shot. The kids are posing in front of a hanging curtain.

Many thanks to Dr. Hernandez and the team at Trident Technical College for welcoming my happy gang!

My Gang - 2012

SCRUBS Camp 2012, Charleston, S.C.

Here is my gang of happy SCRUBS Campers circa 2012. Selfishly out of this group I already have a surgeon, oral surgeon, Gyn, nurse, anesthesiologist, internal medicine doctor all lined up for my old age. I am going to be well taken care of. No plastic surgeons. I may need to recruit for that next year. Heheh. This gang will keep me hopping this week!

SCRUBS Summer Camp

SCRUBS Summer Camp,Charleston, S.C.

Send me your blood thirsty children this summer. Do you know a teenager (13, 14, 15) interested in a health career? Call 843-402-2273 and ask for an application to the SCRUBS Summer Camp at Roper St. Francis Healthcare.

I promise we will give them a week they will never forget!

SCRUBS Camp 2011

My baby health care providers are ready to graduate tomorrow afternoon. This is pretty much all I've done this week but it's been good. Whew. Deep breath! Today was a highlight with visits to the Operating Room and a ride in the ambulance. They have a graduation ceremony with parents and the CEO Friday afternoon. Fun.

I owe huge debts of gratitude to everyone who helped me pull this off! Picture me blowing kisses!

SCRUBS Camp 2011

SCRUBS Camp 2011

This is my week! This is the gang at Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital. Another group of twenty two are at Roper Hospital. Up and at 'em kids!

Happy Campers

SCRUBS Camp, Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital, Charleston, S.C.

Twenty two proud graduates earned their CPR certificate, First Aid Certificate and got a stethoscope for graduation. One tired den mother crashed and burned. Wake me up on Monday.

Thank you, thank you to everyone who helped out today especially my buddy Dr. Geer who came in on his day off to do the "So, you think you want to be a Doctor?" talk.

G'night folks!

Break a leg!

Charleston, S.C.

It's been a weird day.

:))

I'll never look at chicken feet the same. The OR nurses taught the kids how to put a cast on a broken limb with chicken feet.

SCRUBS Camp Class of 2010

SCRUBS Camp, Class of 2010, Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital, Charleston, S.C.

I invited folks to send me their blood thirsty children and they did!

I am playing den mother to twenty two teens who think they might be interested in a health career in the hospital this week. Wow. This is a great gang. So far we've done CPR, First Aid, Physical Therapy, Imaging, Respiratory Therapy. I finished today by packing them off on a hospital scavenger hunt.

Tomorrow we head to Trident Tech for a tour of all their health labs and get to play with their zillion dollar human simulator mannequin. Fun. Wish me luck! This is all part of my master plan to make sure I have good health care providers to take care of me when I am old.