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- Hi, I'm Penny from Kid vision VPK.
- Hi Penny.
- Hi, we're here today to find out about
Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital.
- Well, I can definitely help you with that.
I'm part of the pediatric transport team
here at Joe DiMaggio, and we bring children everyday here
to help them in the hospital because they're sick.
We have many things in this truck to help them.
Would you like to see what's inside?
- Yes.
- Yes, we'd love to see what's in an ambulance. Thank you.
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- [Nurse] As a nurse, I monitor your blood pressure
and your heart.
- [Maria] This is gonna measure your blood pressure.
It's gonna give you a hug, okay.
And sometimes it hurts a little, but then it stops.
- [Nurse] And Maria, she's part of my team
and she's gonna make sure that you're breathing good.
She's the respiratory therapist,
and she takes care of your lungs, okay?
- Okay.
- And you see the green number?
That tells me things about your heart.
Blue number tells me things about your respiration,
yellow tells me how's your breathing, okay?
- [Nurse] The ambulance sometimes
goes very fast with the lights,
so we wanna make sure that we are very safe.
- Is the ambulance driver part of your team?
- Of course, the ambulance driver, his name is Cory,
would you like to meet him?
- Yes.
- Alright, let's go meet Cory.
Hey, Cory.
- Hey guys.
- Hi.
- How's it going?
Okay, guys, come on up here, check this out.
Our job is, mine specifically,
is to get these sick kids back to the hospital safe.
See, we all have real important jobs.
They're in the back helping the patient,
and I'm up front here,
getting us to the hospital, nice, safe and sound.
Push this button right here.
Go ahead. - What button?
- That one, push it.
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- The sirens! The sirens, they say,
"Get out of the way. I'm coming through. It's an emergency."
So make sure that you know when you hear sirens
and you see the lights flashing, to get out of the way.
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- Hi guys.
- Hi, I'm Penny from Kid Vision VPK. Glad to meet you.
- Nice to meet you. I'm Christina.
I'm a Child Life Specialist here
at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital.
- Terrific. We just came from the ambulance
and we'd love to see what happens in the hospital.
- Great! Well, if you came with an ambulance,
this is where you'd come. This is our emergency room.
Once here, the doctors are going to put you
into one of these rooms, called an examination room.
When you're in here, a nurse or a doctor
will come and see you, and check out your body
to make sure that nothing's wrong with you.
Who wants to see what an examination is like?
Okay, great! We're going to go
into the room and check it out.
So once we're in this room, a nurse is going to come in
and check out your body and see how you're feeling.
Here she comes now.
- Hey David. How are you? My name is Heidi.
I'm going to be your nurse today.
I'm going to do a quick physical on you, okay?
I just need you to lean forward
and take a couple really big, deep breaths for me. Okay?
Like you're blowing out a candle.
Okay, deep breaths.
(deep breathing)
- Good job! Your lungs sound really good.
Now I'm going to take your temperature,
because I want to make sure
that you don't have a fever.
Open your mouth. Close your mouth.
Good job! No fever.
And the last thing that I'm going to do
is I'm going to take your blood pressure.
I just want to make sure that your heart is working.
It's going to give your arm a nice big hug, okay?
Big hug. Hold on. It's almost done.
Good job, David. You did really good. Guess what?
You're all good! High five.
- Great! He's A-Okay!
What would we do if David wasn't okay?
- In that case, we'd have to go to another part
of the hospital where there's machines
that look inside your body,
called the Imaging Department.
Let's go!
- Great.
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- Here we are in the hospital's Imaging Department.
This is where we do MRIs, CT scans, x-rays,
and so much more. This is Lynn.
She's our imaging technologist.
And she's going to tell us how the machines work.
- Good morning. My name is Lynn.
I'm the CT technologist. I'm licensed and trained
to operate the machines in this department.
- Why are machines important?
- Machines are important so we can look in your body
to see if there's any problems that need to be fixed.
Would you like to see how the machine works?
- Yeah.
- Yes.
- I work in the CAT scan department
and it's located in Pirate Island, so come on this way.
- Pirate Island!
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- So x-rays take pictures of your bones.
This machine takes a lot of pictures
of the inside of your body.
- What do you take pictures of?
- Well, we take pictures of your heart to see
your blood pumping. We take pictures of your lungs
to make sure you're breathing properly.
And we take pictures of your brains
and that controls the whole body and how it functions.
This is the CT scanner. It's like a big donut.
The camera's inside here
and goes around your body, taking multiple pictures
and then it's sent to a computer that processes it
into a 3D image.
I'm going to show you how it works. You go first.
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- [Penny] This machine doesn't look
like the regular CT machine.
- We know that kids are sometimes afraid
of having tests done so we've made everything kid-friendly
for them so it looks more like a playground.
- Does it hurt?
- No, it doesn't hurt. Nothing touches you.
The only thing that happens is the table goes up
and in and out of the scanner
to take the pictures.
You have to stay very still.
Keep your head just like this,
and don't move at all.
The table moves in and out,
and nothing will touch you.
Very good, you're doing a good job.
And you stay very still, just like that.
You did a great job. How was that?
- [Girl] Good.
- Was that easy? Was it scary?
Not at all, right? Good girl.
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- So say the doctor needs a little bit more time
to figure out what's wrong. You may stay overnight
in a hospital room that looks just like this.
Each room has a bed where you'll sleep at night,
a pull-out couch for Mom and Dad to spend the night,
a TV where you can watch movies
and your favorite shows,
and your own bathroom with a shower.
- What happens here?
- Once you're here, a lot of different people
are going to come in to see you and each person
has their own special job.
- Hi, I'm the doctor, and what I will do is review
with the nurses what they've been doing,
what they know about you, and then I'll examine you,
which could include listening to your lungs,
to your heart, and feeling your stomach.
And then afterwards, we'll decide what we need to do
to make you better.
- Hi, I'm a nurse.
My job is to take notes about your health,
listen to your heart rate and breathing,
and make sure you're getting better each and every day.
- Hi, I'm Tonya. I'm the nurse's aide.
I help the nurse, and I come to take your temperature
and blood pressure to make sure
that you continue to get better.
- Hi, my name is Elaina. I'm your food service worker.
Here at Joe DiMaggio we offer room service.
You can order any kind of food you like at any time,
and I'll be more than happy to bring it for you. Enjoy!
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- Hi, my name is Lotsy Dotsy, the resident clown
here at the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital.
I provide smiles and laughter and distract everybody
when they're not feeling so great.
- Come on, jump up. Yes, good girl.
Hi, this is Nutmeg, everyone's favorite care partner.
She gives lots of love, wags, and kisses.
Come on Nutty, let's go visit other patients.
Let's go.
- Wow, there are a lot of people that take care
of the children here.
It's not such a scary place.
- You're right! And there's one more place I haven't
shown you yet that you're going to love.
Come on, let's go!
Here at Joe DiMaggio, we believe in the power of play,
so we have playrooms just like this on every floor
of our hospital for children
and families to come and play.
- It's great! Thank you so much
for showing us the hospital today.
We learned so much.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome!
- Can we play?
- Yeah!
- Yes!
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