Healthcare Career Camp Schedule 2025 Through Onvida Health

Conference room 3-Monday July 14  

9:00am Registration & Welcome Students  

9:30am Ice breaker  

Similarities with Camp Facilitators 

10:00am Leadership Welcome and Essay Awards  Matt McElrath, CHRO Senior VP Human Resources       Kirsty Schmidt, Senior VP Chief Experience Officer 

10:30am Nursing Careers in Labor & Deliver,  Neonatal ICU and Pediatrics  

Nurse Directors Josepha Weeks and Rosa Rubio,  Lisa Green-White, Johanna Lopez, Carol Smith  and Charge Nurse Lucrecia Mercado-Dobson  

12:00pm Lunch (provided) 

12:30-2:15pm What It takes to be a Surgical Technician  Learn how to suture and team race. Surgical Team  

2:30-4:30pm Cardio Vascular & Pulmonary Services  Explore Careers in Cardiac Cath Lab, Cardiopulmonary,  Echocardiography Technologist & Respiratory Therapy  Director, Tracy Terrones  

 

Yuma Conference Tuesday July 15  

9:00am Welcome back Students  

9:15am Nursing Careers in Wound and Ostomy Care  RN’s Jackie Hixon, Janene Manco, Sarah Ochoa  

10:30am The RX-Cellent Doctors in the Pharmacy Director Mark Jordan  

12:30pm Lunch (provided) 

1pm-2:15pm What is your Communication Style?  Organizational Development Marissa Tompkins 

2:30-4:30pm Explore Incredible careers in Surgical  Services  

Team member roles, education, certifications. Learn to scrub  in, gown in and participate in mock surgeries.  Surgical Team-Director, Melissa Belcher 

 

Yuma Conference Wed. July 16 

9:00am Welcome back Students  

9:15am Process Improvement & Project Management  How to lead your team to success.  

Admin. Director Kristina McNair and Director Heather Santos  

11:00am Casting 101: Demonstration & Discussion Join Dr. Gipson and New Sports Medicine Fellow for a hands-on  demo and Q&A on how to apply a cast and more  

12:00 -1:00pm Lunch & Learn session: Managing your stress  Family Medicine Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, Gina Botello  

1:15-3:00pm Careers in Radiology and Ultrasound  Managers Julio Orozco and Rachel Jacobson 

3:30pm Journey from JR volunteer, to AWC and becoming  Doctor of Optometry  

Dr. Kare

 

Yuma Conference Thursday July 17  

9:00am Welcome back students  

9:15am Panel of former volunteers now Registered Nurses  Shawnita Castenda, Justine Rodriguez & Janeth Sosa 

10:00am-12:00pm Careers in Emergency Medical Services  Aero Care and flight nursing, Fire and Ambulance, Border Patrol  and mock emergency codes and scenarios.  

Romeo Barcenas, EMS Coordinator.  

12:30pm Lunch (provided) 

1:00pm Mentor ME MD program  

Dr. Veerauo Konkankit  

1:15-4:30pm What does it take to be a Medical Doctor?  16 residents including 3 Psychiatry and 1 Sports Medicine Fellow  will share their journey to medical school and residency. 

 

Off-Site Friday July 18 

Z Fun Factory & Waylon’s Water World: Students and New Medical  Residents 

12:30pm Lunch at -Z-Fun Factory 

2pm-5pm Waylon’s Water World