Our first guest speakers of the week was Nurse Pat (who was a nurse for 7 years at St. Luke's) and her husband Paul. Nurse Pat went to nursing school to be an RNC and got her loans paid off when she worked in the hospital. She went to work for a mental hospital with Desert Storm PTSD and addictive disease PTSD. Her husband Paul went to nursing school for anesthesia. He had to go to one year of critical care experience to go to anesthesia school. Paul showed us how to use our anesthesia machine in our biomed lab.
OBGYN Dr. Sherrin Coaxum came to talk to our class about Sexually Transmitted Infections later in the week. She went to Tuskegee for her biology degree with a minor in chemistry. She first started out showing us the female and male reproductive system so we could understand what we were learning. We learned basic symptoms, treatments, how it spreads for common STDs like Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Lymphogranuloma venereum, Trichomoniasis, Mycoplasma genitalium, Pediculosis pubis (crabs), and Genital lesions (Genital herpes, Human papillomavirus, Syphilis, Molluscum contagiosum, Granuloma inguinale, HIV). You can protect yourself from STDs by practicing abstinence, vaccines, condoms, monogamy, and reduces sex partners. It was a very informative presentation and she was very good at explaining everything we needed to know.
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