2008 Woodie Awards
Student Health Center Ready to Assist Students in Need
Eryn O'Neal
Issue date: 4/27/05 Section: Life
The Student Health Center, located on the east side of campus in Hayden Hall, offers many inexpensive services to Citrus College students.
A full-time nurse practitioner is on duty, which allows the center to prescribe inexpensive prescription. However, since the center is not open 24 hours prescriptions for chronic illnesses such as diabetes and asthma cannot be given.
There is no charge for the college nurse, nurse practitioner, physician or counseling services.
The center provides many services at a fraction of the cost charged by most hospitals and doctors.
Students can walk in for checkups if they are not feeling well, get tested for sexually transmitted diseases, get a routine pap smear and receive a prescription for birth control and if their conditions are severe get referred to inexpensive clinics and doctors.
The center also provides immunizations including Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Influenza Vaccine and Tetanus.
Students can also receive over the counter medications and personal hygiene items.
The center also provides Plan B, the emergency contraceptive.
Students who come to the health center for lab work must first view a video.
Students must pay a fee for prescription medicine; students who are having lab work done must also pay a fee.
" The center is not taken advantage of," said Adriana Glenn, nurse practitioner, "I think if the students were aware of the services we offer, that might change."
The health center also offers students nutritional consultations with a dietetic intern and counseling on eating disorders with a social worker.
All counseling is confidential.
"The dietetic interns are qualified to give nutritional advice but cannot prescribe medication for weight loss," Glenn said.
Students must make an appointment for lab work such as pap smears or STD testing. A fee will be charged if a student fails to make appointment without notification.
The center allows walk-ins for checkups and other services that do not involve lab work or a physician.
The center also promotes positive health by providing helth education materials, AIDS information and eating disorder information through brochures, audio visual and reference files.
You can call the Student Health Center at (626) 914-8671 to collect information, make appointments or check special clinic hours.
The Student Health Center is open Monday- Thursday, 8 am- 5 pm and Friday, 8 am- 12pm.
A full-time nurse practitioner is on duty, which allows the center to prescribe inexpensive prescription. However, since the center is not open 24 hours prescriptions for chronic illnesses such as diabetes and asthma cannot be given.
There is no charge for the college nurse, nurse practitioner, physician or counseling services.
The center provides many services at a fraction of the cost charged by most hospitals and doctors.
Students can walk in for checkups if they are not feeling well, get tested for sexually transmitted diseases, get a routine pap smear and receive a prescription for birth control and if their conditions are severe get referred to inexpensive clinics and doctors.
The center also provides immunizations including Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Influenza Vaccine and Tetanus.
Students can also receive over the counter medications and personal hygiene items.
The center also provides Plan B, the emergency contraceptive.
Students who come to the health center for lab work must first view a video.
Students must pay a fee for prescription medicine; students who are having lab work done must also pay a fee.
" The center is not taken advantage of," said Adriana Glenn, nurse practitioner, "I think if the students were aware of the services we offer, that might change."
The health center also offers students nutritional consultations with a dietetic intern and counseling on eating disorders with a social worker.
All counseling is confidential.
"The dietetic interns are qualified to give nutritional advice but cannot prescribe medication for weight loss," Glenn said.
Students must make an appointment for lab work such as pap smears or STD testing. A fee will be charged if a student fails to make appointment without notification.
The center allows walk-ins for checkups and other services that do not involve lab work or a physician.
The center also promotes positive health by providing helth education materials, AIDS information and eating disorder information through brochures, audio visual and reference files.
You can call the Student Health Center at (626) 914-8671 to collect information, make appointments or check special clinic hours.
The Student Health Center is open Monday- Thursday, 8 am- 5 pm and Friday, 8 am- 12pm.