02/26/2026
Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital and Mt. Juliet High School have launched the hospital’s first-ever inpatient training experience, a credit-bearing internship that brings students directly into clinical settings.
This past fall, 10 high school seniors spent 11 weeks shadowing hospital teams in multiple departments — from the emergency room to the intensive care unit to the cardiac catheterization laboratory.
"This clinical experience taught me more than I ever could’ve learned in a classroom,” said Zavier Key, a senior at Mt. Juliet High School. “Being hands-on, working with real patients and seeing real situations helped everything click in a whole new way."
Chief Nursing Officer Jeanne Yeatman helped design the program to give students a firsthand look at all the roles that support the health and well-being of patients in their community.
“Connecting with these students who bring passion and excitement into their learning has been delightful,” Yeatman said. “It’s reenergized our staff and allowed them to share their own passion for what they do and why they do it.”
The program has been such a success that staff welcomed a second group of students in early February. Learn more in the link in our first comment.
