What were you goals? Did you meet these goals?
My Goal was to interpret with patients and learn all the technique to be doctor and learn oll the word that is need to be done in a office. Exactly I did not meet my Goal in the hospital. But in the office I did meet my Goal
2. What are the most important things you've learned?
The most important thing that I learn in the hospital is that people really need help. They need people to make them fell like they are home because there are no other place more than home. And I learned in the office that if you are working in a office you need to work solowly and done you work neet.
3. In what ways have your grown as a student/young adult?
The way that I learn that I grow as a young adult is because I done thing by my self and no help of other people.
4. Describe a memorable moment or experience.
the memorial moment of my internship is when I get a gift in my internship site. I will always keep the gift to remember Saint Vincent Hospital.
5. What challenges did you overcome?
The challenges that I overcome is that no one in the hospital care about me. It's like I'm a stranger in the hospital. Even if I wanted to run away I could do it, but I did not care I was there to meet my goal and not care about other people who work there.
6. What advice would you give a new intern at this site? Your answer to this question will be used next year with the upcoming juniors.
The advice that I would give for the intern next next year is that is not what you always what you want to have you will get. The most important is that to do your work and finish all your our.
7. What will you miss about your internship?
What I would miss in my internship is one of my patient. He was so nice and we use to play game so that I will make him fell that there are always people around him. Sometime also he use o ask me question about History and science. HE always tell me to focus at school.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
11. Word / Phrase: Preoperative
Meaning: The time period describing the duration of a patients
Context:
12. Word / Phrase:Pancrea
Meaning:The organ in the body that produces insulin and substances which help to digest food so that it can be used by the body is called Pancrea
Context: I remember last year that I learned in science class about Human body and we pronounced the word pancrea
13. Word / Phrase: Lump
Meaning:swelling:
Context:I have a strange lump on my arm.
14. Word / Phrase: Rash
Meaning: Allergic reaction which makes your skin go red
Context:When she used the soap her skin came out in
15. Word / Phrase: Bruise
Meaning: when the skin goes blue and yellow
Context:He has a bruise just under his eye.
16.Word / Phase:Spot
Meaning:Red mark on the skin
Context:When he was a teenager he had a lot of spots."
17.Word /Phase:Scab
Meaning:Dry skin that forms over a cut
Context:Don't pick at your scab - you might make it bleed.
18. Word / Phase:Sprain
Meaning:Twist a part of your body
Context: My ankle looks swollen, but it's only a minor sprain
19.Word /Phase:Bump
Meaning: When you hit yourself and get a slight swelling:
Context:I bump my head on the desk
20.Word / Phase:Boil
Meaning: Infected swelling with liquid inside it
Context: You'll need to go to the doctor to have that boil lanced
Meaning: The time period describing the duration of a patients
Context:
12. Word / Phrase:Pancrea
Meaning:The organ in the body that produces insulin and substances which help to digest food so that it can be used by the body is called Pancrea
Context: I remember last year that I learned in science class about Human body and we pronounced the word pancrea
13. Word / Phrase: Lump
Meaning:swelling:
Context:I have a strange lump on my arm.
14. Word / Phrase: Rash
Meaning: Allergic reaction which makes your skin go red
Context:When she used the soap her skin came out in
15. Word / Phrase: Bruise
Meaning: when the skin goes blue and yellow
Context:He has a bruise just under his eye.
16.Word / Phase:Spot
Meaning:Red mark on the skin
Context:When he was a teenager he had a lot of spots."
17.Word /Phase:Scab
Meaning:Dry skin that forms over a cut
Context:Don't pick at your scab - you might make it bleed.
18. Word / Phase:Sprain
Meaning:Twist a part of your body
Context: My ankle looks swollen, but it's only a minor sprain
19.Word /Phase:Bump
Meaning: When you hit yourself and get a slight swelling:
Context:I bump my head on the desk
20.Word / Phase:Boil
Meaning: Infected swelling with liquid inside it
Context: You'll need to go to the doctor to have that boil lanced
Mentor Interview
1. What is your full name?
Her full name is Patricia Cusack
2. Where are you from (city, state, country)?
She is from Pennsylvania
3. Where did you go to college? For how long? Do you plan to go back to school?
Under graduate school in Ohio Dominican University for three years. No she don't plan to go back to school.
4.What kind of degree did you earn? Did you attend graduate school for an advanced degree? If yes, what degree and where?
She earned two Master degree. First degree in Xavier University. Second Master Columbia University in New York City. She attend graduate school for an advanced degree. She earned doctor degree.
5. Why did you choose your professional field?
She choose her profession field because she taught she can make difference in the field of education
6. What got you involved in this field of work? What inspired you to do it?
She get involved in this field of work because she wanted to make health care education and bring her background education to health care
7. Why did you choose this particular job at this particular company?
she choose this particular job at this particular company because she wanted to work in a Catholic hospital like Saint Vincent hospital.
8. How long have you worked here?
She have been worked here for 14 years
9. What is your job title?
Her job title is Director of volunteer services.
10. What do your duties include? Or What kinds of work does your job involve?
Her duties include Administration, directing the entire department.(100 volunteers)
11. What are some of the challenges you have faced working here?
Some of the challenges she have faced working here is that she don't have to much staff, she need more space.
12. What is the best part of your job?
the best part of her job is that all the different kind of people who are so generous and helping people.
13. What is something you would like to change about your job?
something she would like to change about her job is a full time Rickert keeper
14. Did you work somewhere else before this job? Where? For how long? How was that similar/different?
She had worked somewhere else before this job. She was working before in Columbus Soho. She was an assistance of supper. It was similar because she was managing and still managing. It is different because she was in charge of people who was employer.
Her full name is Patricia Cusack
2. Where are you from (city, state, country)?
She is from Pennsylvania
3. Where did you go to college? For how long? Do you plan to go back to school?
Under graduate school in Ohio Dominican University for three years. No she don't plan to go back to school.
4.What kind of degree did you earn? Did you attend graduate school for an advanced degree? If yes, what degree and where?
She earned two Master degree. First degree in Xavier University. Second Master Columbia University in New York City. She attend graduate school for an advanced degree. She earned doctor degree.
5. Why did you choose your professional field?
She choose her profession field because she taught she can make difference in the field of education
6. What got you involved in this field of work? What inspired you to do it?
She get involved in this field of work because she wanted to make health care education and bring her background education to health care
7. Why did you choose this particular job at this particular company?
she choose this particular job at this particular company because she wanted to work in a Catholic hospital like Saint Vincent hospital.
8. How long have you worked here?
She have been worked here for 14 years
9. What is your job title?
Her job title is Director of volunteer services.
10. What do your duties include? Or What kinds of work does your job involve?
Her duties include Administration, directing the entire department.(100 volunteers)
11. What are some of the challenges you have faced working here?
Some of the challenges she have faced working here is that she don't have to much staff, she need more space.
12. What is the best part of your job?
the best part of her job is that all the different kind of people who are so generous and helping people.
13. What is something you would like to change about your job?
something she would like to change about her job is a full time Rickert keeper
14. Did you work somewhere else before this job? Where? For how long? How was that similar/different?
She had worked somewhere else before this job. She was working before in Columbus Soho. She was an assistance of supper. It was similar because she was managing and still managing. It is different because she was in charge of people who was employer.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
MIDPOINT REFLECTION
How has the internship been the same as and/or different than your expectations?
The internship has been different than my expectation. I work in a nursing floor but that floor my manager don't even look at me. I fell sometime so boring because there is anything to do. But the office is better because I have a lot of work to do and I'm getting some experience of how people work in office. I know now working in office is a very difficult thing to do and there is no time to play.
What is similar and different about the culture of the school environment versus the workplace environment?
The similar ant culture of my school and the environment versus the workplace environment are we all work very hard to help other, people are from everywhere and speak different language. The diferent is that at school there is to much noize sometime the student fight and they don't listen to their teachers. But in a hospital like Saint Vainsant Hospital everyone respect each other, they work very hard, they are very busy, and the people have to do all that their chief say.
What new skills have you learned that apply to the workplace? Which of these are transferable skills?
The new skills that I learned that apply the workplace are: Communication skill: before I was very shy to speak with the patients or my co-worker. But new I speak a lot and ask question to the things that I don't now. Organized skill : In the office I organize many documents. Sometime I have to files many papers and put it in alphabetic order.
What kind of relationship do you have with your mentor and co-workers? How have you grown as a result of interacting with professional adults? What kinds of communication (verbal and non-verbal skills) have you gained?
I have a very good relation with my mentor or co-workers because I give them respect and they give me also respect. I have grown as a result of interacting with professional adults because I gained many skills and it helped me grow like a women. I gained the verbal communication because sometime I talk to the patient or sometime I speak in the phone with many people who need help in their office. so they call me to go help them. After I fell so proud of my self because I did a good job.
What challenges at the internship have you faced that you have overcome and how did you overcome them?
Exactly I did not face any challenges in my internship. Since that I started my internship everything is fine. And I hope it will continue until I finish my internship.
What challenges have you faced in school as a result of the altered schedule and how are you handling them?
Exactly I did not face any challenges as a result of the altered schedule. Every time I get homework and I have to go to my internship I manage my time. Like I leave Brooklyn to go to Manhattan it take me many hours to arrive, so I do all my homework in the train.
What goals are you working to accomplish during the remaining five weeks of the internship?
The goals that I'm working to accomplish during the remaining five weeks is to gain the skills of how the doctors interact with each other.
What new things have you learned about New York City?
New things that I learned about New York City it is a beautiful city, people are very busy, and they are also friendly
The internship has been different than my expectation. I work in a nursing floor but that floor my manager don't even look at me. I fell sometime so boring because there is anything to do. But the office is better because I have a lot of work to do and I'm getting some experience of how people work in office. I know now working in office is a very difficult thing to do and there is no time to play.
What is similar and different about the culture of the school environment versus the workplace environment?
The similar ant culture of my school and the environment versus the workplace environment are we all work very hard to help other, people are from everywhere and speak different language. The diferent is that at school there is to much noize sometime the student fight and they don't listen to their teachers. But in a hospital like Saint Vainsant Hospital everyone respect each other, they work very hard, they are very busy, and the people have to do all that their chief say.
What new skills have you learned that apply to the workplace? Which of these are transferable skills?
The new skills that I learned that apply the workplace are: Communication skill: before I was very shy to speak with the patients or my co-worker. But new I speak a lot and ask question to the things that I don't now. Organized skill : In the office I organize many documents. Sometime I have to files many papers and put it in alphabetic order.
What kind of relationship do you have with your mentor and co-workers? How have you grown as a result of interacting with professional adults? What kinds of communication (verbal and non-verbal skills) have you gained?
I have a very good relation with my mentor or co-workers because I give them respect and they give me also respect. I have grown as a result of interacting with professional adults because I gained many skills and it helped me grow like a women. I gained the verbal communication because sometime I talk to the patient or sometime I speak in the phone with many people who need help in their office. so they call me to go help them. After I fell so proud of my self because I did a good job.
What challenges at the internship have you faced that you have overcome and how did you overcome them?
Exactly I did not face any challenges in my internship. Since that I started my internship everything is fine. And I hope it will continue until I finish my internship.
What challenges have you faced in school as a result of the altered schedule and how are you handling them?
Exactly I did not face any challenges as a result of the altered schedule. Every time I get homework and I have to go to my internship I manage my time. Like I leave Brooklyn to go to Manhattan it take me many hours to arrive, so I do all my homework in the train.
What goals are you working to accomplish during the remaining five weeks of the internship?
The goals that I'm working to accomplish during the remaining five weeks is to gain the skills of how the doctors interact with each other.
What new things have you learned about New York City?
New things that I learned about New York City it is a beautiful city, people are very busy, and they are also friendly
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Second-Vocabulary-Installmente
1. Word / Phrase: illness
Meaning: Disease
Context: My first time to heard the world illness is when I was voluntere in the hospital
2. Word / Phrase: Inventory
Meaning: A company's merchandise
Context: One day the office that that I work they inventory one company because they needed papers.
3. Word / Phrase: Sickroom
Meaning: A room occupied by a sick person
Context:Every Monday a go to all the sickroom to talk to the patient
4. Word / Phrase:ER
Meaning:Emergency room
Context: When I was working in the patient transport, I used to bring the straitchair in the emergency room
5. Word / Phrase:Tweak
Meaning: To make fun of
Context:I make fun to my sister when she star making her self like a crazy person.
Meaning: Disease
Context: My first time to heard the world illness is when I was voluntere in the hospital
2. Word / Phrase: Inventory
Meaning: A company's merchandise
Context: One day the office that that I work they inventory one company because they needed papers.
3. Word / Phrase: Sickroom
Meaning: A room occupied by a sick person
Context:Every Monday a go to all the sickroom to talk to the patient
4. Word / Phrase:ER
Meaning:Emergency room
Context: When I was working in the patient transport, I used to bring the straitchair in the emergency room
5. Word / Phrase:Tweak
Meaning: To make fun of
Context:I make fun to my sister when she star making her self like a crazy person.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Weekly Vocabulary
TEMPLATE:
1. Word / Phrase: IV
Meaning: Into a Vein
Context: I heard a nurse say a patient should change her IV
2. Word / Phrase:Stretcher
Meaning:is a medical device used to carry casualties or an incapacitated person from one place to another.
Context: My Mentor told me to take back the stretcher in the first floor.
3. Word / Phrase:Arduous
Meaning: Demanding great effort
Context: The doctor work arduously
4. Word / Phrase:Poignant
Meaning:Sad
Context: I see a person fell very poignant because he lost her wife
5. Word / Phrase:lobby
Meaning:is a room in a building which is used for entry from the outside
Context:I take the patient to the lobby each Tuesday and Thusday
1. Word / Phrase: IV
Meaning: Into a Vein
Context: I heard a nurse say a patient should change her IV
2. Word / Phrase:Stretcher
Meaning:is a medical device used to carry casualties or an incapacitated person from one place to another.
Context: My Mentor told me to take back the stretcher in the first floor.
3. Word / Phrase:Arduous
Meaning: Demanding great effort
Context: The doctor work arduously
4. Word / Phrase:Poignant
Meaning:Sad
Context: I see a person fell very poignant because he lost her wife
5. Word / Phrase:lobby
Meaning:is a room in a building which is used for entry from the outside
Context:I take the patient to the lobby each Tuesday and Thusday
Thursday, March 19, 2009
my fourth day of internship
PART 1
What is it?
It is a hospital
What kind of business is it and what kind of work do the professionals do there?
the kind of business people do is a lot, because there is many different type of doctors and types of job Example nursing, patient transport, etc.....
Where is it? What is the neighborhood like compared to where our school is?
the hospital is in MANHATTAN 170 West 12th Street, NY, 10011. The neighborhood like to work hard and get money.
Tell a little about your mentor.
What kinds of things have you done so far?
The kinds of thing I have done so far is to help the patients, make them feel like they are in their houses.
What were some of the highlights of the fourth week? (Memorable moments, cool things, incredibly difficult things...)
The highlights of the fourth week was very exiting because I get to learn new skills and how to interact with people. But some time it is hard because in the nersing floor they don't give us job and I find it difficult for me to stay there for 4 hours and I don't do nothing
PART 2
When do you leave school?
I leave at school at 11:40
How long does it take you to get to your internship?
It take me 1 hours to take to my internship
When do you arrive at home?
I arrive at home at 6 pm
What is your schedule? (What days do you work and for how long each day?)
I work Monday, Tuesday, and thurday. I work for each day 4 hours.
Who are the two people that can sign your time card? (Your mentor and the additional person)
Each day that I go to the hospital the person that have to sign my time card is my mentor
Part 3
How was the fourth week different than the third week?
There is no different between my third week and my fourth week because I do the same job everyday.
What is something that you really like about the internship?
Something I really like about my internship is to help the patient, and the people that I work with are very nice.
What is something you dislike about the internship?
I don't like the nursing floor because they don't give me something to do and I have to write in my blog I don't write nothing important about the nursing floor. That floor make me boring
Who else's blog have your read and commented on?
I never know that I have to read and comment a blog. But like I know it I will do it now.
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