About Us
The Paraprofessional Training Programs through MEDS offer quality education at affordable rates to individuals who desire to provide direct patient care. These caregivers would include individuals caring for family members at home, nursing and medical students, individuals wishing to re-enter the workforce, and those who wish to enhance their healthcare careers. By enhancing lives through quality education, MEDS will exceed the expectations of the healthcare industry, our students, and the patients our students serve.
Unique To Meds
SOS STUDENTS ON STAFF
The Students On Staff (SOS) Program is a unique concept that offers solutions to staffing and placement issues for facilities, home health agencies, and students. When a participating facility or agency has an open position, they can recruit from the MEDS pool of graduates rather than advertise or hire from placement agencies. Students get top consideration for available positions, while facilities save valuable time and money.
STAFF ‘N’ STUDENT MENTORING PROGRAM
The Staff ‘N’ Student Mentoring Program partners students with an experienced staff member and a State-approved Clinical Supervisor for the required clinical hours. Students learn proper procedures and techniques while assisting with daily tasks and responsibilities.
Our Mission
MEDS is dedicated to enhancing the lives of its students and their clients by empowering them with quality education while encouraging each individual to recognize their own value and worth. To fulfill this goal, MEDS embraces the following objectives as part of its mission:
- Provide our students with complete and up-to-date instruction in order to successfully achieve state certification in their chosen training program.
- Instructors are dedicated to teaching the state-regulated curriculum in concise, easy-to-understand formats.
- Instructors bring real-life experiences and personal accounts into the classroom to make learning interesting and memorable.
- The clinical instruction component is experienced in facilities that demonstrate an exceptional level of care that is documented by state surveys.
- Promote a sense of pride and respect in each student for the services provided by allied healthcare professionals.
- Raise public awareness as to the critical need for qualified, well-trained allied healthcare professionals.
- Elevate and improve the accepted standard of practice by and for CNAs.
- Proudly affirm CNAs to be a vital part of the healthcare community.
- Lead our students by exemplifying exceptional and ethical practices that uphold the dignity of the nursing profession.
- The safety and welfare of the patient are always the first priority in every situation.
- The responsibility to provide for patient safety and welfare does not stop when a shift ends.
- The importance of getting to know and understand each patient as a person is a critical part of providing quality care.
Professional Team
Our staff is a team of spiritually guided servant leaders who are devoted to partnering with our students to create an individualized learning experience. MEDS founder and many of our instructors began as CNAs. MEDS instructors are an engaged and energetic group of healthcare educators who have a passion for nursing and a wide variety of experiences to share with our students.
As dedicated nursing professionals, we set high standards and lead by example. MEDS staff strives to expand our mission and continue to serve our students at the highest level.
Perhaps Florence Nightingale said it best...
“Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses…
we must be learning all our lives.”
May our words, hands, and feet deliver the intentions of minds, hearts, and spirits as we serve, teach, and learn from each other.