When I started working at Scio Health Analytics as an audit coordinator for Catamaran, I set goals and objectives on how I could be better at my job. My goals for 2015 when I started working, where to learn as much as possible about Scio mine. I needed to be on top of everything and not to leave everything to the last minute. Lastly, I needed to start gaining confidence by talking to the pharmacies if they had any questions about their audits.
Healthcare was an unplanned career for me. I am not one of those people who knew that I was going into healthcare from an early age. I spent twelve years in and out of the foster care system and worked as a warehouse laborer. Did I even have the opportunity to consider my passion at all? I was asked, “Where are you going from here?
In my freshman year, I made a choice to relinquish some of my social life and replace that time giving back to my community. I joined a non-profit organization called the Volunteer Corp. We spent our time at food banks, park clean-ups, and even hosting local events. This experience left a lasting impression on me in many ways; however, one experience changed my perspective on life and serve as a constant reminder of how the smallest contribution to others can be the most powerful. St. Joseph University, in Philadelphia, held an event called Hand in Hand. It was an event dedicated to raising awareness for people with physical and/or developmental disabilities.
My top interest at school is The Academy of Health Professions. This rigorous program gives classroom instructions, hands on laboratory, and clinical experience. As a class of 17 students, we volunteer at the local clinical to get experience as Certified Nursing Assistants. Every other class, I take the role of an adult for 2 hours and become a CNA. I provide my patients with oral care, bathing, feeding, and changing linen.
If I could have any career it would be a career in the medical field. An occupation in rheumatology is what I believe will best suit me. My mom has inspired me to become intrigued in rheumatology. Back when I was in elementary school, my mother was diagnosed with lupus. Before it developed fully, she became weaker.
For my Diverse Field Experience this semester, I spent fifteen hours at the Mclean County Juvenile Detention Center. This particular center was occupied by about 8-14 juveniles at a time, all depending on court dates and occupancy of other nearby detention centers. This center usually had 3 staff members working the shift every time I went, which was seven to nine on weekday afternoons. I was intrigued to go to at this time because I thought it would be the time of the day were the juveniles had no school work or other obligations to do while I was there. I wanted to see what they liked to do in the free time before bed, the only stipulation being mandatory snack time at eight pm.
This year, I experienced both a personal and academic obstacle that correlate with one another. In January, I started the year long Medical Assisting program at my school. Prior to beginning this program, I was so excited to be getting a medically centered education, and learning about the field I wanted to expand my career in. After entering the program and learning that there is so much more to medicine than just taking care of patients, I began to lose my interest. This was shocking to me since, my whole life up until this year, I believed I was going to become an amazing medical doctor.
As a Resident Advisor (RA) I have had nights where I was woken up to help a resident who was vomiting in their bed from a night of heavy drinking. These situations required me to take control of the room and think quickly on my feet. As a physician, these are qualities that are important to make sure that the patients receive the care they need in a timely fashion. While the skills of an RA and the skills of a physician are vastly different I am confident that the skills I will take away from being an RA will allow me to improve my patient’s lives through the care I will provide.
I braced against my opponent on the field-- calves burning, sweat soaking through my hair. Anxiety overcame me. We were tied with twenty seconds left on clock, and the opponent was sprinting beside me with the ball. As we both charged towards the goal, I tried my best to knock the ball out of his mesh. Yet, my attempts proved to be fruitless.
One of the experience i have that involved with the retrieval cue should be working as a medical assistant again after 1 year of working at somewhere else and doing different things. I've realize how much stuff that i have forgot after 1 year of not interacting with doing thing that a medical assistant need to do. As a medical assistant have a lot of different tasks that need to remember in order to assist the physician. however, the unclear memories that i had for interview patients to obtain medical information and measure their vital signs helped me a lot with finishing the first step of the situation. however, when the situation gets complicated such helping patients to fill out forms, this is one of the struggle that i had.
In this essay, I present my firsthand account of my experience as an African American Health student in a predominantly diverse health program as well as my perceptions and interactions with fellow students. As an autoethnographer, I sought to answer the following question: What is the experience of an African American health student’s education in a predominantly diverse school of health and university, and how does that experience affect me as an individual? In high school, I was called “white” by the majority of the African American students in a high school of nearly 2000 students in the Southeast of Houston because of the way I talk. Initially, when they said this to me I was shocked they’ve never heard an African American speak educated. I had been on the receiving end of racially charged comments by white peers at my job, and now I had to deal with this from my own race and ethnicity, too?
Health Occupation Students of America (HOSA) was an organization that allowed me to expand my horizons and interact with people of various backgrounds. It built my communications skills and taught me how to connect with people who have different experiences than me. Not only was I able to establish a relationship with these people, but I was able to work well with them as well. This highlighted my ability to collaborate with people of differing opinions and still have the ability to be successful in our tasks. HOSA also pushed me out of my comfort zone slightly by putting me in new situations, such as forcing me to expand my circle and connect with new people.
Ever since grade school, I was passionate about working in the field of medicine, and science. I enjoyed anatomy, medical spelling and terminology, and reading about the healthcare industry. Because of my passion for healthcare, I decided to to attend Health Sciences High. There, I was given the best opportunities, such as, medical internships and college health courses. My plans and goals had turned me into a mature young adult.
My strengths include being creative/artistic, being a perfectionist, being passionate, math, and decorating. One of my strengths is having a creative/artistic mind because it allows me to be able to think outside the box and express myself and my personality in many different ways. Another one of my strengths is that I am a perfectionist. This has gotten me many wonderful grades by not turning anything in until it is worthy. Being a perfectionist is a strength because it gets me quite a lot of “oohs” and “aahs” from parents, teachers, and students by putting extra effort everything.
My passion for healthcare lies with patient care. I enjoy taking care of patients and their family. I have chosen to become a family nurse practitioner because I can combine nursing and medicine to provide a higher level of care to my patients. As a nurse practitioner will be able to make an impact on my patient’s health through, health promotion, disease prevention, managing acute and chronic conditions and improving patient’s health (Wynne,
