TACOMA -- Students chosen to attend nurse camp at Tacoma General Hospital lounged on chairs last week, eating pizza and talking about things high schoolers talk about
: grades, prom, college, careers.
But when they put on their new mint-green scrubs, everything changed.
Unruly hair was tied back. Bling was reduced to a stethoscope slung around the neck. Voices became hushed as students gaped at themselves in nursing duds.
"You can see they're impressed with the scrubs," said Audrey Van Veen, a registered nurse who volunteers at the nurse camp the hospital holds every summer. "About a year into nursing, they'll go, 'Scrubs ... big deal!' "
The goal of nurse camp is to generate interest in a profession with chronic personnel shortages, said Ethlyn Gibson, an RN who suggested the idea.
Full Story: Nurse camp generates healthy interest [Seattle Post Intelligencer]
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