Health Science students are applying what they’ve learned in the classroom to real life by visiting classrooms around the school on Wednesday and Thursday checking the vitals of students and staff.

In the field of medicine, being able to communicate with patients to understand how they’re feeling is an important skill.

“It gets [students] out of their comfort zone and they get to learn their strengths and weaknesses in communicating and they get to see themselves perform as a first responder,” Health Science teacher Stephen Friar said. “By taking vitals, they’re learning how to talk to people other than their classmates to determine if they’re sick or not sick.”

For students like junior Angelica Tadeo, the opportunity in class gives them time to practice for when they enter medical professions in the future.

“Being in medical [fields] you’re gonna have to know, in the future, how to tell what someone needs and how to make sure that somebody is okay,” Tadeo said.

Being able to check vitals is also beneficial for students who aren’t looking to be involved in medicine in the future.

“I think [checking vitals] is necessary in the real world,” sophomore Luda Dzyuba said. “Even if you don’t go into the healthcare profession, if something happens like an accident, you can see if someone’s okay and what’s going on with their heart or how they’re breathing.”