RiverView Health is offering a free Scrubs Camp to area high school students entering their junior and senior years for the 2022-23 School Year who are considering a career in the healthcare industry. The camp will be held from Tuesday, August 9-11 at the RiverView Health in Crookston.
The camp will take the students in small groups into the different departments at RiverView to learn about the various teams, jobs, and services RiverView provides and what they can do in healthcare and practice some of the skills they may need to know for their department. “We focus pretty heavily on the services available at RiverView Health, so we talk a lot about in-patient hospital care through a nursing and physician’s perspective,” RiverView Marketing and Community Relations Director Stacy Bruggeman explained. “We talk about rehab services. We spend some time at our lab, where the students are able to test their own blood type, and we also spend some time at the University of North Dakota Medicine and Northland Community and Technical College in East Grand Forks.”
Bruggeman explained that the camp is an excellent opportunity for the students to explore areas of healthcare they may not be aware of and will be a great way for them to learn what to expect in the healthcare industry. “There’s certainly more to the team than physicians and nurses, which are very well-known positions,” Bruggeman explained. “But there are other disciplines that may be of interest to students, and the other benefit is that each presenter that they meet with talks about their education and training that they went through to get to the position that they’re in now, so it gives students a very good idea of what to expect.” Bruggeman expressed that the camp is also a great way for the students to make connections with their team members and RiverView employees that they can reach back to when they are trying to start something like job shadowing, volunteering, or just having a conversation about their career path. Bruggeman also mentioned that, while not directly, has had an impact on many students in the past that has helped them explore many great careers in healthcare after attending the camp back when it started back in 2017 as a part of Morgan Kresl’s Miss Crookston platform. Since then, she has become a medical student at the University of Minnesota Duluth since she first attended the camp. The camp was canceled for the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but RiverView is encouraging the current junior and future senior students that are interested in healthcare to return to the camp again in August 2023 to learn different things in healthcare and strengthen the connections they made at the camp.
If you are going to be a junior or senior in high school for this coming school year and are interested in joining the camp, you can print and fill out a registration form below and send them to Stacey Bruggeman at RiverView Health, 323 South Minnesota Street, Crookston, MN, 56716. “Anyone who’s interested in the camp can send their registration forms to me by email, or they can drop it off at RiverView Clinic or the hospital in Crookston at our emergency entrance. There is always somebody at the switchboard, so they can drop it off anytime at that desk,” Registrations must be received by Sunday, July 17. For more information on the camp, you can contact Bruggeman at 218-281-9440 or email her a completed registration form. You can send it to sbruggeman@riverviewhealth.org.
Registration forms for the camp can be found below-
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