Students Explore Healthcare Careers

Healthcare Connections, a career exploration event, was held at Edgecombe Community College April 19-20. The event was a collaboration between Strategic Twin-Counties Education Partnership, ECU Health Edgecombe Hospital, UNC Health Nash, and ECC. Approximately 200 students from the Twin Counties learned about healthcare careers from healthcare professionals. Shown is Ivelisse Ruiz, RN, MSN, CNOR, nurse manager of surgical services at UNC Health Nash, leading a demonstration in the surgical technology lab in the Lamm Building on ECC’s Rocky Mount campus.