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Teddy Bears Get Their Yearly Check Up
Second year nursing students at Carl Sandburg College spent the past two days taking care a some very special patients--Teddy Bears.

The Teddy Bear Clinic was put together by the second-year nursing students to help teach pre-schoolers, kindergartners and first graders about important health issues.

With their teddy bears in hand students traveled around the John M. Lewis Gymnasium leaning about, hygiene, nutrition, and first aid among a variety of other topics.

Nursing Student Jenna Johnson tells WGIL there was really one main theme behind the two day event.

"Doctors and nurses aren't scary and we're not mean and scary people," says Johnson.

There were a total of nine different stations for kids to take their teddy bears. Johnson tells WGIL each station focused on one aspect of health and wellness.

"My group in particular is doing heart sounds and cardiac just because we were studying it at the time and learning about it and thought it would be great to incorporate," says Johnson. "Sometimes when kids go to the doctors office and the doctor comes at them with a stethoscope, they're kind of scared."

At Johnson's station the most popular question was "can I hear my bear's heart?"

Johnson says the kids not only got to hear their teddy bears' hearts, but their own hearts as well.




(WGIL News story and photos by Alexis Cory.)
03 07 13 by Newsroom
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