Erica: Enfermera / Nurse
As a nurse, Erica helps patients manage chronic pain by teaching them strategies to retrain the way their brain senses pain, and empowers patients to create good self-care habits.
Raquel – Profesora de Psicología / Psychology Professor
As a psychology professor, Raquel studies the brain to better understand why we make the decisions we do. She also addresses the importance of cognitive behavioral therapy, a practice that helps people reframe how they think and allows the brain to create new patterns and connections.
Marlene – Terapeuta Familiar / Family Therapist
As a family therapist who frequently works with Latinx families, Marlene addresses prevalent misconceptions about mental health. This video is part of the series SciGirls Profiles: Women in STEM, which includes 12 role model videos of women who are passionate about their STEM work, hobbies, families and making the world a better place.
Dra. Becca Cuellar – Química Medicinal / Medicinal Chemist
Dr. Becca is a medicinal chemist who works on creating treatments for serious illnesses. This video is part of the series SciGirls Profiles: Women in STEM, which includes 12 role model videos of women who are passionate about their STEM work, hobbies, families and making the world a better place.
Dra. Rebeccah Rodriguez Regner – Médica / Physician
Dr. Rebeccah was the Medical Director for Team USA athletes at the Rio Olympics. This video is part of the series SciGirls Profiles: Women in STEM, which includes 12 role model videos of women who are passionate about their STEM work, hobbies, families and making the world a better place.
Kate Heckaman – Firefighter/Paramedic
Kate’s commitment to caring for hospital patients sparked a career change to firefighting. This video is part of the series SciGirls Profiles: Women in STEM which includes 12 role model videos of women who are passionate about their STEM work, hobbies, families and making the world a better place.
Real-Life Math – Nurse
In this video, learn how mathematics—specifically, proportion, ratio, rate, and conversions—are used in the professional responsibilities of a registered nurse working on the surgical trauma floor. In the accompanying classroom activity, students take on the role of nursing teams, measuring vital signs, analyzing ratios, and calculating metric conversions.
Real-Life Math – Pharmacist
Pharmacists must accurately measure and package medicine, ensuring that its dosage is safely administered to a patient. In the accompanying activity, students calculate prescribed dosages of medicine and the amounts of medicine needed according to different factors, including patient weight and time.
Mirror Therapy: Tricking the Nervous System to Help People Heal
Learn how a mirror can fool the brain into thinking a disabled limb is functioning normally in this video from SciTech Now. Mirror therapy is an accessible way for patients who have limb pain, or limited motor function in their limbs, to ease the pain and gain the function back, sometimes quite quickly. Seeing the image of the limb in the mirror tricks the brain into thinking the real limb is actually moving, often helping the real limb to eventually move.
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