Mayfield School District Names Student of the Month

Alexa Krueger was honored as Mayfield City School District's Student of the Month.

Krueger, who was recognized at a recent school board meeting, is a senior in the Excel TECC Medical Technologies program and has a 3.91 grade point average. She was selected for a summer honors program in forensic science at Ohio Northern University and also spent a week at Shawnee State University in a summer program for students interested in veterinary medicine.

Last summer, she participated in a nine-week Cleveland Clinic Summer Internship Program, a colloboration of Cleveland Clinic's Nursing Institute and the Office of Civic Education Initiatives. There were 350 applicants for the 30 positions in which students learned alongside doctors and nurses conducting a research project.

Alexa was involved in a research project on "PICC Line Use in a Community Hospital," studying patients who received peripherally inserted central line catheters.

She is also completing a 15-hour-per-week internship at Hillcrest Hospital as a nursing assistant in the Post-Partum Unit of the Family and Maternity Center.

Alexa will represent Mayfield Excel TECC at the state Skills USA competition as lead on a team presenting "The Clinical Practice of Leech Therapy." The team worked with University Hospital's Department of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery.

President of the Medical Technologies class, she organized its participation in the opening of the Seidman Tower at Hillcrest Hospital, the University Hospitals NICU giving tree and Up-Side of Downs holiday party.