In the time I have worked at Mayo Clinic Health System, Mankato, I feel that I have learned many things that will benefit me in the the future as well as helped out my community and those in need. Not only was I helping people in need with either medical issues or just people that are going through a tough time, but I was getting real world, hands on experience in the medical field that I hope will benefit me in the future. During my time volunteering at the hospital, I have come to learn that, for the most part, I thoroughly enjoy working in the medical field and attending to many different patients with many different needs.Overall, I think I have become more confident in trying new things that I am not normally comfortable doing. At the same time I have learned that there are boundaries that need to be obeyed and if I did not have the ability to help a patient, it was my responsibility to ask for help and find someone who could benefit the patient. Most of the time I had to assist patients, and depending on what they were at the hospital for, ranging from cancer to heart attacks, I would sometimes have to step outside of my comfort zone and help them, even if it was maybe a little scary. Just volunteering when the emergency room was busy was often a challenge because there was always so much …show more content…
Even now, later on, I still sometimes work with full time staff and nurses in the emergency room, which is helpful because there is some tasks that I can’t do, due to being a minor volunteer. At my time at the hospital, I was often working odd hours late at night or early in the morning, which often made it hard, but I still chose to show up and work hard and help whoever needed. In the future I am going to continue to volunteer at Mayo Clinic because it creates a good opportunity for me and I thoroughly enjoy
The career path that I want to pursue is in the medical field. I major in psychology and minor in biology because going to medical school has always been my desire. Being a pediatrician is my goal I wish to conquer. I am beyond interested and passionate about this career. It is not just a career, it is my life dreams. I want to be able to enjoy going to work every day knowing I love my job and I am here because I want to. Being a pediatrician I am able to work with children and many people of different cultures. I am thrilled to know that I will be capable of caring for sick children.
In the beginning of my senior year I was eager to expand my understanding of how it would be to work in a hospital. An opportunity arose allowing me to volunteer in the hospital at the University of Chicago. I was able to volunteer at the children's playroom, which consisted of a weekly commitment. The daily tasks I had to perform where to enlighten the spirits of children and reduce the amount of anxiety that developed within them when they approached a hospital visit. I would play games, read books, or just company the patients at their bedside. I especially love to interact with the younger patients because their laughter and innocence warms my heart up.
When I learned that one individual can only do so much while a group of passionate individuals can even move mountains, I took on the role of a shift leader to moderate volunteers and joined the emergency department to study a new environment the hospital offer. During that time, I trained numerous volunteers and assisted countless staffs in saving lives at an effective rate with quality services. Many volunteers I trained are continuing their ardent determination to thrive in the small volunteer room alongside with zealous
NHS will offer me many opportunities for to give back to the community. One of my favorite memories in community service was visiting the elderly. We sang songs for them, cooked food, and had conversations with them and I loved it. With NHS I know that I will be continuing to help others in our community.
Not everyone however can give blood, whether they be ineligible or have a strong fear of needles and blood. I don’t have either of those problems and so feel that I almost must donate. I am trying to apply this mentality to a lot of my service. I try to arrive at the start of each service being grateful that I am physically able, and that I do not have any mental or emotional anxieties that would stop me from community service. I also try to always be enthusiastic about the work I am doing and to try to learn more about the project and what I can continue to do to help
It was becoming increasing clear to me that the hospital environment was a community that I knew one day I wanted to be a part of. For three summers, I shadowed one emergency room physician who has been an amazing role model and mentor. This exposure taught me not only a plethora of terms, but to think critically and quickly and to prioritize and reason in ways that had immediate benefit. I also learned a great deal about bedside manner, and how important it is to be culturally and emotionally sensitive to patients. Like my family, this physician noticed so many important things about people- who they are and what matters to them. She knew just when to touch someone on the shoulder, or to step back. She accounted for age and class and race and subtleties that don’t even have words. She viewed each patient as a whole person. One night a woman was brought into the ER after a car crash and needed a neurological exam immediately. She was wearing a hijab. This physician kindly addressed the woman and asked her if she wanted the door closed while she took off her hijab. They both knew the cultural significance, helping this patient to feel respected and less
Although I had always considered medicine a potential career from hearing my mother’s frequent inspirational recounts as a dentist, it was my volunteer work that awakened my sense of responsibility to the world and my desire to help patients heal. As a volunteer at the UCSF Medical Center, I dashed through corridors with a patient rushing to find his wife in the maternity ward, minutes before she delivered. Witnessing the newborn with the family was a heartening experience, and fostering trust with patients at UCSF Medical has enriched my life immeasurably. Such interactions enhanced my ability to build strong interpersonal bonds, and I was awarded the HEARTS Award from UCSF for exemplary patient care. The hospital became my second home and I realized that I might enjoy working in a health care setting.
There are always ways to help people in the medical industry and volunteering can help me decide how I want to contribute. Volunteering can help me figure out if I actually want to work in the medical industry or not. If I don’t want a job in this industry I can still learn other trades. The wide variety of work a hospital offers can give a person experience in another industry. Hospital technology can give knowledge on engineering.
During my observership, my clinic intern mentor was Shiyama Hassan. Overall it was an enjoyable, less stressful academic experience.I got a chance to take patient histories, examination and patient’s vital sign monitoring and charting. I didn’t feel much difference in observing my mentor taking the history and when I was taking the history, it could be related to my past experience. However, every time I was curious to know what is happening with the patients and what caused him to seek naturopathic medical advice. During this clinic shadowing, I saw genuine interest of my mentor and supervisor to help patients concerns, unlike to allopathic model of prescribing medication. It helped me to improve my interviewing skills to look root cause for
I believe that with every experience, there is a lesson to be learned. While volunteering, the nurses taught me how...
Involving in a national level campaign such as Pulse Polio Campaigns, in charge of arranging and dispensing the vaccines helped to reach a larger population. Coordinating and working as a team with different healthcare people helped to deliver a comprehensive care for my patients. Being the team leader for the non-profit charity providing financial help with free medications, and food helped me understand my patients beyond just the medical diagnosis, but the complex web of multiple factors in their overall health. I hope to use my experiences to continue working with community into my residency and also in my
...the opportunity to act as a triage nurse taking weights and blood pressures of our 1600 patients and seeing first-hand how hard it must be to receive quality medical care in their country. Many walked for hours and then stood waiting to be seen in the rain. To them, medical care is more a privilege than a right. This also seems to be true in the United States where the uninsured are turned away from many hospitals to ones, which often lack the resources for expensive operations. This experience has inspired me to serve the underserved.
The two similarities with my partner and I are we both are interested in Health field also we both have experience in the research field. Therefore, in our resume and LOA, we both mentioned our experience in research as well as volunteering in care hospital.
I was always ready to help in the ways that doctors and nurses needed, but my main goal became showing the patients that
At the beginning of this volunteer experience, I walked in hopeful that I would gain some knowledge about the different careers that the medical field possesses, but I got so much more than that. I learned that community service is about making an impact in the lives of other members who share my community.