Nursing & Health Sciences Articles

Six Pennsylvania College of Technology students and their instructor recently traveled to Nicaragua, where they provided dental care for students at a school for very poor children. La Escuelita (The Little School) is in the Santo Domingo section of the city of Managua.

With campus beauty all around, including the "Student Bodies" art installation spanning the campus mall, the group takes a shady stroll north from the ATHS. Stopping by the dental hygiene lab Penn College President Davie Jane Gilmour (left) walks with Secretary Manderino and others alongside the robotic welding stations. Michael K.

One of Geisinger’s Life Flight helicopters provides a morning learning experience on the library lawn. Emergency medical services students listen attentively to practical information about Life Flight landings. Students get hands-on practice, securing a classmate to be “loaded” onto the helicopter.

John M. Arrigonie, exercise science faculty member, makes sure that participants are properly using the cardio equipment. Campers are introduced to weight training with the college's Precor machines. Upper-body stretching in the free-weight lab Arrigonie shows participants proper leg-press technique. Youngsters learn the correct way to bench press.

Paul “Babe” Mayer, who taught in Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Fitness and Lifetime Sports (now Exercise Science) Department for 25 years before his retirement in December, has been approved by the Penn College Board of Directors for “professor emeritus” status.

Bambi A. Hawkins, learning laboratory coordinator for the paramedic program, shows a camper proper hand placement to create a “seal” when using a bag valve mask to provide oxygen. An important part of a fitness assessment, campers record one another’s blood pressure in the exercise science major. A camper uses a laparoscopic camera and surgical tools in the surgical technology lab.

This fall, Pennsylvania College of Technology will introduce its associate degree in exercise science, which grew from its former physical fitness specialist degree. The exercise science major provides an education in exercise physiology and human movement theory – or how the body responds to exercise.

Pennsylvania College of Technology physician assistant student Filippo D. “Flip” Borsellino, now looking forward to his final two rounds of clinical internships before graduating in August, encountered a doctor, a community – and a tragedy – that have helped to shape his goals as a health care provider.

Pennsylvania College of Technology bestowed honors upon three alumni during Spring 2015 commencement ceremonies held May 15-16 at the Community Arts Center, Williamsport. Adam J. Yoder, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, received the Alumni Volunteer of the Year Award on May 15. Joseph H. and Barbara A.

Scott A. Geist, Surgical Technology Program director at Pennsylvania College of Technology, was recently appointed to the eight-member Board of Directors of the Accreditation Review Council on Education in Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting. Geist has served as an ARC/STSA accreditation site visitor since 2009. His three-year term on its Board of Directors will begin June 1. Scott A.