Please join us for the LLCC Healthcare Entry-Level Professional Skills (HELPrS) program capstone project expo. The HELPrS participants have been working hard this summer. For their last day, we are showcasing their experiences!
You’re invited to stop by the Trutter Center between 12:30-1:30 p.m. today, Aug. 10, to visit with the HELPrS participants and see their projects!
Please join us for the LLCC Healthcare Entry-Level Professional Skills (HELPrS) program capstone project expo. The HELPrS participants have been working hard this summer. For their last day, we are showcasing their experiences!
You’re invited to stop by the Trutter Center between 12:30-1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 10 to visit with the HELPrS participants and see their projects!
On Monday, July 24, 16 newly graduated practical nursing (PCN) students were celebrated and recognized in the very first PCN pinning ceremony held in the Trutter Center. A pinning ceremony is a symbolic welcoming of newly graduated or soon-to-be graduated nurses into the nursing profession. The graduates are pinned by another nurse of significance in their lives. The ceremony concludes with all nurses in attendance reciting the Florence Nightingale Pledge.
In addition to the ceremony, two students were honored with the Outstanding Student Awards. Kaitlynn Loskot and Laura “Noelle” Swinburne were awarded for showing excellence in practice and theory, and for demonstrating leadership and high performance throughout their time in the nursing program.
Congratulations to all the PCN nursing students, and special thanks to their honored pinners and PCN faculty for being an inspiration to these new nurses!
Students in the Healthcare Entry-Level Professional Skills (HELPrS) program recently spent time learning more about radiography. HELPrS is an immersive, six-week summer program in which participants explore health care professions both on and off campus, learn about college life and get to practice important professional skills needed in the health care workforce.
Listen to the latest edition of the LLCC Podcast, which features Leigh Giles-Brown, program director, diagnostic medical sonography, discussing LLCC’s sonography programs and the Healthcare Entry-Level Professional Skills (HELPrS) grant-funded summer program.
The HELPrS program is in its second week, but this is the first week of job shadowing. There are 12 students from Southeast, Lanphier, Virginia, Sacred Heart-Griffin and Springfield High Schools who are divided into three groups. They are job shadowing at Memorial Hospital, Springfield Clinic and St. John’s Hospital for four hours each Tuesday and Thursday.
Diane L. Wilson, program director, neurodiagnostic technology (NDT), was interviewed by WTIM radio yesterday about the new certificate option in the NDT program, format of classes and job prospects.
Bill Harmon, LLCC agriculture program coordinator, was interviewed by Illinois Radio Network about the LLCC Agriculture program and opportunities available in ag.
Leigh Giles-Brown, program director, diagnostic medical sonography, was interviewed June 1 on WTAX regarding the HELPrS program, offering 15 high school seniors a paid, six-week health careers exploration this summer.
LLCC has been awarded a grant to allow 15 prospective health professions students to explore health care careers this summer while getting paid.
The HELPrS (Healthcare Entry-Level Professional Skills) program will run July 3-Aug. 10, Mondays through Thursdays from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Participants will be paid $15 per hour (a total of more than $1,400) while experiencing a variety of health professions and job shadowing. The program also provides free uniforms, books, lunches and transportation to health care sites.
Students who will be high school seniors in fall 2023, as well as recent high school graduates, are eligible (ages 16-20).
“This six-week program will expose students to multiple health care career options,” said Leigh Giles-Brown, program director, diagnostic medical sonography at LLCC. “These include radiography, sonography, neurodiagnostic technology, respiratory care, occupational therapy assistant, emergency medical services and nursing.
“We want to open students’ eyes to the many possibilities available in the medical field. They’ll explore health care professions both on and off campus, learn about college life and get to practice important professional skills needed in the workforce — all while getting paid!”
The program aims to enhance diverse representation in the health care field, with priority given to minorities and males. Applicants from Lanphier High School, Southeast High School and Virginia High School will receive special consideration.
Registration is required by June 16, 2023 with more information available at www.llcc.edu/helprs.
HELPrS is made possible by the Trades School Grant Program and awarded through the Illinois Community College Board.
On May 15, Carrie Jacobs, administrative assistant to the dean of health professions, graduated from Greenville University. She earned a Master of Science degree with an emphasis on management. Congratulations!