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Personal Statement: A Career As A Healthcare Assistant

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As I head to my Monday physics class I take in as much information before leaving early to catch the campus shuttle bus to the subway Green Line then transfer to Blue/Silver Line to meet another bus and walk five blocks to a youth center in Southeast Washington DC. Talking with the first through eighth graders, on their future and help learn to read, reminds me since age three how I wanted to learn. I find excitement in learning something new and innovative, as I hear the children say the same thing. I help clean the youth center and perform a reverse commute home in time to do my own schoolwork. I feel accomplishment in being part of a young person’s life to achieve greatness. I interact with children to keep my mind active post retirement …show more content…

In the role as medical supply officer, facility management officer, contracts manager and even Group Practice Manager require interactions with physicians and other clinical staff; from buying special instruments to treat a patient, to managing physician schedules, and ensuring compliant patient records. Working in close proximity with physicians allow an insight to gripes, rewards, frustrations, and achievements of the job. There is no ‘9 to 5’ for most physicians and paperwork increases once a patient leaves the examination room. While in uniform, I express my interest to be a doctor to physicians, and the responses are ‘…it isn’t what you think; long hours, lots of paper work, and not enough time with the patients…’. Those comments have not steered me away but, in fact, rekindled my thoughts of becoming a physician since undergraduate school. Besides their candor the bottom line is they still love being physicians. One physician, in an emergency department, enlighten me on the importance of balancing personal life and work when schedules are not consistent. Again, that does not deter me as my husband and I find personal time around his work and my school schedules to …show more content…

As the supply officer responsible for all medical equipment and supplies, it was a challenge to keep necessities ready for the next wave of attacks. Witnessing these sharp physicians make a way out-of-no-way whenever the ideal tool needed was out of stock validated me to want to be at the level of knowledge as these physicians. Their improvisation with alternative methods allowed them to save a patient’s life and limb through knowledge from their years of study. Which motivates me to know how the body work and to translate that knowledge to

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