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Revenue Cycle - Southside Hospital
Lake Success School Partner: Smithtown High School
School Partner: Baldwin High School This program took place in Southside Hospital’s
state-of-the-art Emergency Department. Students
This program helped students explore careers were immersed in the world of emergency
in a non-clinical path, focusing on different medicine as they played the role of patients and
jobs within finance. The role of an analyst was first responders in a trauma situation.
spotlighted, showing its importance in providing
upper management with the data and analytics
necessary to make informed business decisions.
SBIRT – Division of Staten Island University
General Internal Hospital - North
Medicine School Partner: Tottenville High School
School Partner: William Floyd High School Students experienced a staged Level I Trauma
drill close-up and firsthand. They started with a
Students learned about substance misuse and classroom discussion of the emergency response
how the team addresses this topic with patients. team’s educational backgrounds. A Code Trauma
They witnessed a model role-play using SBIRT was called overhead and the students raced
(Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to out to the helicopter landing pad and saw a car
Treatment), an evidence-based protocol used crash victim transported via air ambulance. They
to identify and effectively intervene in patients witnessed the team perform life and limb saving
dealing with health and/or psychosocial problems measures as they experienced the intense team
related to substance misuse. work needed under pressure to stabilize a critical
trauma case.
South Oaks Hospital Staten Island University
School Partner: Amityville Memorial High School Hospital - South
The program introduced students to the history School Partners: St. John Villa Academy &
of nursing, including such influential figures as St. Joseph Hill Academy
Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Clara
Barton. The program explored unique careers St. Joseph Hill Academy and St. John Villa Academy
specific to behavioral health nursing. A meet students had an amazing opportunity to go behind
and greet was conducted where nurses and the scenes and see what happens in perioperative
nurse leaders shared personal stories about their services – from the pre-operative laboratory, to
chosen career paths and what it is like to work in radiology, to being scrubbed and gowned in the
a psychiatric hospital. Students participated in OR. They saw a cataract removal, a laparoscopic
interactive team building activities and engaged in cholecystectomy and a breast augmentation
hands-on demonstrations. procedure.
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