Health Professions Roundtable
Featuring Faculty Jill Matthes Baxter, DNP, RN, Randall Gearhart, Ph.D. and Levi Jones, M.S.Share
In this roundtable conversation, Ashland faculty from the College of Nursing and Health Sciences reflect on what it means to pursue a career in health care and what four years in these programs builds in the students who go through them.
Their discussion moves through the hands-on clinical experiences that begin sophomore year, the interdisciplinary simulation that puts nursing, exercise science, PA studies and dietetics students in the same room working toward the same goal and the internship experiences that help students discover where their purpose actually lives. They also explore what it means to care for a patient as a whole person, why presence is a skill worth developing and what the best health care professionals are ultimately known for. For students still asking what this pathway is really about, this is a window into the people and the process behind it.
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