Teaching is a large part of our work here in Guatemala. We spend a lot of time on staff development, encouraging reading and practice of clinical skills, as well as teaching our staff to educate the patients on disease process, medication usage and preventive health.
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| Katrina Aardema and Rowdy Sarrett after a day of healing the sick and afflicted in Chuchipaca II. |
Currently we are blessed with the visit of two senior physician assistant students from Harding University. Katrina Aardema and Rowdy Sarrett are spending six weeks with us as part of their clinical rotations. This definitely keeps us on our toes making sure that we guide them in their clinical skills. But having them in clinics also opens up opportunity for our professional nurses to have study time they need to develop their clinical skills and basic sciences background.
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| Cristina Chan and Pedro Zapeta working the front desk at Clinica Caris. |
Not only do we have U.S. students, but joining us this quarter are Cristina Chan and Pedro Zapeta two local high school students and members of the area churches helping us out as part of their internships for business and bookkeeping degrees. Kemmel has them honing their public relations, medical office, computer and data entry skills. This is big help for us in clinic and back office.
