The Teddy Bear Clinic provides an opportunity for children to learn about coming to the clinic by pretending to be the doctor, nurse, medical assistant, or technician! The children take their teddy bear from station to station and care for their bear.
We are looking for students to help our Gundersen staff run the stations. Please let me know via email if you are interested in helping by April 8th. Please list your top 3 choices for stations you would like to help at. There will be Gundersen staff and other volunteers also helping to run the event.
We also will be looking for 1-2 people who are willing to wear the teddy bear costume! Let me know if you’re interested!
Stations:
- Registration desk station
- Check in/check out
- Charts provided
- Bears provided
- Evaluation/raffle
- Getting ready for the doctor/doctor visit station
- Vitals
- Physical exam
- Health questions for teddy bear
- Immunization station
- Learn about immunizations
- Give a grapefruit an injection (older)
- Oral syringe for teddy bear (younger kids)
- Some brief coping tips for pokes
- Lab test station
- Lab draw on teddy bear
- Microscope with blood slide
- X-ray station
- Child “operates” pretend x-ray machine
- “X-ray film” (transparency) of a bone break provided to child
- Pictures of other imaging equipment available for further education
- Lead available to provide education
- Surgery station
- Dress up in scrubs
- OR table set up with anesthesia materials
- Getting ready for surgery education
- Casting station
- Child can cast an arm or leg
- Add information about splints, cast removal, crutches, etc
- Child life station
- Highlight child life services
- Medical play, relaxation, or diversional activity
- Answer questions about coping with medical procedures
- IV station
- Tape straw catheter to teddy bear
- Discuss purpose of IV
- Step by step pictures available for a game
- **Changes can be made, new station to Children’s museum event (1st involvement was at Hospital Opening teddy bear clinic)
- Pharmacy
- Fill out prescription with child
- Each child receives a medicine bottle and syringe or medicine cup
- Ask how teddy takes their medicine
- Explain that too much medicine can make you sick so you can not take more medicine than what your parent gives you
Once you are signed-up, I will add you to my email list for more details/communication as we get closer to the event date. Include an email contact if other than the one you respond with.
Lunch will be provided.
Thank you for your consideration!
