Westmoreland Students Explore Health Care Career Paths at Independence Fair

Trib Live: Tenth grade Eastern Westmoreland Career and Technology Center student Zoey Wilders carefully stuffed gauze into a simulated wound to staunch the bleeding.

A few feet away, nurse and emergency room educator Kelly Bedner cheered her on.

“You’re saving that life,” Bedner said, ushering more students to try their hand at the station — a “stop-the-bleed” model tool that simulates how a nurse might help a patient with a gunshot wound in an emergency.

Bedner and several other nurses ran demonstrations, shared advice and explained their daily duties for a group of more than 50 students Monday at Independence Health System’s inaugural Career Fair at Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg.

High schoolers from Greensburg Salem, the EWCTC, Hempfield Area and Greensburg Central Catholic traveled in small groups among a dozen stations such as Bedner’s, where experts ranging from nurses to EMS workers to surgeons, OBGYNs, cardiac care doctors and more presented on their areas of work.

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