The Nursing Consortium of South Florida, a non-profit coalition of hospitals, nursing schools, and health care staffing organizations, once again organized the Day in the Life of a Nurse™ program in partnership with South Florida public school districts and many private high schools. Students from Boyd H. Anderson High School in Lauderdale Lakes had the opportunity to experience what a typical day is like working as a nurse at Broward Health Medical Center (BHMC).

At BHMC, students participating in the one-day program experienced various activities, including nurse-led tours of hospital departments. The experience allowed students to spend quality time with a nurse and ask them individual questions about their profession and the challenges they face while hearing stories about their career. Students met and heard from nurse educators, information systems nurses, nurse researchers and nurse administrators. In addition to shadowing staff nurses and listening to various presentations, students learned how to take a person’s blood pressure and pulse, how to listen to a heartbeat through a stethoscope and how to scrub in and dress in surgical attire while touring surgical suites.