YORKTON - Going to the doctor need not be a scary thing.
That is what a program now in its 10th year tries to show youngsters attending Yorkton Nursery School Co-Operative.
The program has third year nursing school students; Toni Rohatensky, Jaidyn Eitzen, Mackenzie Dull, Clarizze Perpetua and Maisy Wheeler, visiting the nursery school over several weeks each year offering the ‘take the scare out of care,’ explained Lana Haider with the nursery school,” adding the program is held “so that if children need to go to the hospital it won’t be quite as frightening.”
As part of the program a Teddy Bear hospital was held March 30, which enforces the idea for the children “that nurses are here to help and make them feel better when they find themselves at the hospital,” said Haider, adding it “lets them see and touch the medical equipment like a nebulizer and thermometer.
“They spend time playing with the children and become a part of the class showing them compassion and becoming a classroom friend.”
The program is good for the nursing students too.
“Spending time with the children is part of their pediatric clinical rotation,” said Haider.
