In this photo: Shabong Fox (left), Principal Veryl Ann Duncan (center), and Twaila Cain (right) in an English classroom. Cain toured Granite Hills and talked to various classrooms about kidney disease.

Last Friday students from Granite Hills were educated about kidney disease from Twaila Cain, director of the dialysis center at Sierra View District Hospital, who came to Granite for the Educator for a Day program. Educator for a day is when is when a group of business professionals set aside their work to talk to schools about the fields that they work in.

About 24 professionals visited individual campuses from the Porterville Unified School District. Cain was chosen to visit Granite Hills. She toured different classrooms, educating students about what it is like to practice nursing, especially dialysis, the field she works in.

She said she likes to work in the dialysis field because it allows her to work with everything, from seeing her patients to working with surgery.

"It's a joy working with the patients because they are so grateful for life," she said. She said that the dialysis patients are the ones who chose to live instead of give up, so she enjoys working with those kinds of attitudes.

Students who listened to her speak, while educated about kidney disease and dialysis, were also scared by it and now know to be more cautious. One student who listened to her in his psychology class, Daniel Hensley, was glad that she informed him about this disorder, although he was a little scared.

“Am I glad that she that she came and scared me about something that I can’t control, but it was rather interesting and sort of gave me some insight about how I would cope with it if it were to happen to me,” he said.

Granite Hills was chosen to be highlighted in the story that the Porterville Recorder wrote about the program.

"I wanted to choose a high school because I can relate more to them," said Shabong Fok, reporter from the Porterville Recorder who wrote the story on Educator for a Day.

El viernes pasado estudiantes de Granite Hills fueron educados acerca enfermedades de hígado por Twaila Cain, directos del centro de  dialysis del hospital, para el programa Educator for a Day.  Educator for a Day es cuando un grupo de profesionales de negocio ponen a lado su trabajo y hablan con escuelas acerca las areas en que quieren trabajar.

“Basicamente estamos informando los niños acerca lo que van a estar aprendiendo,” dijo Cain.

Alrededor de 24 profesionales visitaron escuelas individuales del Porterville Unified School District.  Cain fue escogido visitor a Granite Hills.  Visito a varias clases, educando a los estudiantes acerca como es practicar enfermería, especialmente dialysis, la area en la cual trabaja.

Dice que le gusta trabajar en la area de dialysis porque le permite trabajar con todo, de ver sus pacientes a trabajar con cirugía.

“Es un placer trabajar con los pacientes porque son muy agradecidos por la vida,” dijo ella.  Dice que los pacientes de dialysis son los que escogen vivir en vez de darse por vencidos, así que le gusta trabajar con esa clase de actitudes.

Granite Hills fue escogida ser destacada en la historia que el Porterville Recorder escribió acerca el programa.

“Queria escoger una preparatoria porque puedo relacionarme mas a ellos,” dijo Shabong Fok, reportero del Porterville Recorder quien escribio la historia sobre Educator for a Day.