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CENTRAL UTAH HEALTH CAREER DAY Carrie Torgersen
Suturing, casting, taking blood pressures, and giving injections are activities you expect to see taking place in a hospital. However, recently high school students from south-central Utah attended a Health Career Day at the Sevier Valley Center and had the opportunity to try their hands at all of those skills – and a whole lot more! Sponsored by the Utah Center for Rural Health at Southern Utah University and the Utah Hospital Association, the health career day brought together 120 students from Manti, Gunnison, North Sevier, Richfield, South Sevier, Piute and Wayne High Schools. Students who attended were divided into groups and rotated among 6 handson workshops. At the Medical Technology Workshop, Kendall Willardson from the Laboratory Science department at Sevier Valley Medical Center, explained careers available in the laboratory science field. Students also had the opportunity to do a hands-on blood typing activity. Nurses from Sevier Valley Medical Center taught the participants how to suture. Students were taught basic suture knots and worked
with suturing instruments as they sutured on chicken wings. Pre-medical students from the Rural Health Scholars program at Southern Utah University provided a casting workshop, where participants were taught how to put on a basic plaster cast. Students took turns putting casts on each other, and were then able to take their casts home with them. The Snow College practical nursing program provided a hands-on nursing workshop. Stations were set-up and taught by the nursing faculty and current nursing students. Participants spent time in the nursing department lab and learned how to give injections, take a blood pressure and proper patient care. A respiratory therapy workshop was provided by Weber State University students. Participants learned about respiratory therapy as a career, and were able to use some of the tools and equipment that respiratory therapists use. Students were taught how to intubate, and then given the opportunity to practice on provided dummies. Employees of the Central Utah Public Health Department also attended and
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provided a workshop where students learned about careers in Public Health. In the workshop students learned about different specialty programs and careers available in the public health sector. The Utah Center for Rural Health coordinates these regional career fairs through support from the Utah Hospital Association. According to Dennis Moser, Executive Director for the Utah Center for Rural Health and Southern Utah AHEC, “These career days are used as a way to expose kids from rural areas to health care careers. Rural areas have a harder time recruiting and maintaining their health care workforce. If we can help encourage students from rural areas to pursue health care for their careers, they will be more inclined to come back to rural areas to work.” To see more pictures from the event, or to learn more about summer camps and other activities sponsored by the Utah Center for Rural Health for high school students, please visit www.suu.edu/ahec.
WCHC Hanksville Clinic
The hours for the Hanksville clinic will be changing starting April 18th. The medical provider will be there from 10:00 AM thru 12:30 PM every Weds. Anyone picking up medications will have to pick them up during these hours. This time change will allow us to stay later if we have patients scheduled. Please make your appts early in the day and we will stay as long as needed to see everyone. If we have only a few patients we will leave at 12:30. Thank you for your support.
Thursday, April 5, 2012 • Issue # 938
FREMONT RIVER WATERFALL AREA IN CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK CLOSES FOR THE SUMMER SEASON Following three nearfatal incidents that occurred during the 2011 summer season, the National Park Service is temporarily closing the Fremont River waterfall area to public use during the warm weather months of 2012. With the arrival of warmer temperatures, visitors are often attracted to the swimming hole at the base of the falls. Unfortunately, serious and life-threatening conditions currently exist at the waterfall that are not readily apparent to visitors when they enter the water. Hazardous swimming conditions near the waterfall are the result of highly aerated water and the strong recirculating currents in the plunge pool. The water at the base of the falls is highly mixed with air resulting in a significant loss of the buoyancy that is typical of non-aerated water, causing even strong swimmers to sink. In addition, strong currents on the surface of the pool pull swimmers into the falls and into danger. The waterfall located near mile marker 86 on State Highway 24 in Capitol Reef National Park was created in 1962 when the river was rerouted to accommodate the construction of Highway 24. This water feature has, since its construction, been an attractive site for swimmers and recreationists. The dynamics of the waterfall have changed over the years, however, as the river has cut a narrow channel in the soft sandstone. This has increased the velocity of the water at the waterfall and created a hazardous water-filled slot above, and a dangerous plunge pool beneath, the falls. On June 20, 2011, a sixyear-old boy visiting with his family from Wisconsin entered the water, was drawn under the falls, and was quickly pulled under the surface and held there by currents. The boy was under the water for several minutes before his father found him under the surface. When pulled to the shore the boy was not breathing and had no pulse. By coincidence, there were two highly trained medi-
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cal professionals also at the waterfall and they rendered assistance. After about one minute of CPR, the boy was revived. An air ambulance helicopter was summoned and he was flown to Salt Lake City and has recovered. Again on July 15, 2011, a twelve-year-old girl from California was pulled under the surface by the strong currents while swimming and remained under the water for approximately three minutes. Noticing the emergency, thirty-three year old Austin Ball from Logan, Utah entered the water to assist. He was quickly overcome by the flow as well and was under the water for nearly two minutes. Both the girl and Ball eventually floated to the surface where bystanders pulled them to shore. Both were not breathing or had pulses. In this instance, CPR was
initiated by a physician who luckily happened to be on scene. Both victims eventually regained consciousness and were flown to hospitals in Provo and Salt Lake City where they recovered. Following the incident Ball stated, “I did not anticipate just how much force the waterfall could generate, and just how turbulent the water could be. I’ve visited this area before and the flow off the waterfall is more concentrated now than it has been in the past, and is obviously more dangerous. The force it generates at its base is too great to escape.” The closure area extends from one hundred yards upstream to one hundred and twenty five yards downstream of the waterfall and includes the waterfall parking area. The seasonal closure will be lifted when the weather becomes too cold for swimming.
Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us. Henrik Tikkanen
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