The population I will be serving is students from Grades 9 to 12 in New Jersey attending public high school. In New Jersey, we have a lot of students who are interested in the various fields of medicine, but lack the guidance and resources to identify valuable information that will enrich their knowledge of medicine as well as provide them with information regarding the various careers in science and medicine. At NJMS, we are uniquely qualified to meet this need for knowledge in our community using the abundant expertise of our faculty and medical students, as well as the availability of beneficial resources such as access to medical databases and affiliations with community based programs. One such program is the CPR certification program
Among the sterile field of the cardiac catheter laboratory, a student is observing over a cardiologist’s head while a surgical technician narrates their role in the standard ablation. This is just one of the many pivotal experiences that a student in Liberty High School’s Allied Health CTE program can expect. The student is on a path made available by the Western Maricopa Education Center and, if followed properly, that student can expect to graduate high school as a skilled worker in the medical field. Allied Health is just a small portion of a much bigger picture that provides ever growing opportunities to high school students prior to graduation.
The 4+4 program at Hofstra caught my interest after I researched its medical school, the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Northwell comprises some of the most renowned hospitals in the New York area, from the Long Island Jewish Medical Center to Lenox Hill Hospital. Aside from being partnered with such a prestigious institution, the Zucker School of Medicine’s progressive, “case based” curriculum is what intrigued me the most. Few medical schools offer to train its students for the 21st century, and this hands on approach seems like the best method to expose students from our generation to the ever changing field of healthcare. From working in groups to solve weekly cases to using real world patient cases to explain concepts, I feel as if the Zucker School of Medicine offers an optimal experience for its students to succeed in their fields.
The proposed change project will introduce CPR training to the schools of Contra Costa County. By educating faculty, students, and parents about the benefits of performing CPR and providing basic CPR training tools, the 70% of people who feel helpless during a cardiac emergency will decrease. Using social media tools, like YouTube, allows a larger population to receive education. Overall, by allowing the project into schools, the number of people who are fearful and or unwilling to perform CPR will increase and thereby improve the chances of survival.
Area I have selected for the field is Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) specializing in pediatrics. Long-Term Acute Care Hospital, specializes in treatment for special needs such as patients with concurrent acute illnesses, recovering from acute illness due to multisystem failures, requires direct care by multiple specialists, ventilator services (weaning or decannulation), needing of daily physician visits or have complex respiratory-relevant diagnoses. Which in terms focuses on patients who have complex medical problems and the rehabilitation needs that one may require special or intensive treatment over an extended period of time. Patients who come to LTACH have been in an ICU or CCU at a hospital and now require specialized care (as
Although more than ten years can pass prior to the moment one first calls oneself a pediatrician, the hard work and dedication pays off when one saves the first life a helpless child. Throughout the long process of applying for school after school, obtaining scholarship after scholarship, and proving one’s medical skill with each and every exam, one must feel true bliss when grasping the newly received medical license in one’s hands. A career in pediatrics will allow one to save the lives of young people who haven’t yet truly lived.
I have always been interested in working with children. Becoming a teacher has always been a potential career path for me; however, I recently discovered the position of a child life specialist which has further broadened my interest for a future career. Although they are not educators in school, they are extremely important since they are the educators for children and their families to help overcome difficult and/or challenging life events. As a child life specialist I will be teaching children and families in hospitals how to cope with their diagnoses, how a surgery day will go, how certain lifestyles will have to change, and much more.
7th grade brought opportunity to discover more about medicine. Mrs. Barrett asked us to research an interesting careers. I picked pediatrics. I chose to tap into a first-hand experience by sitting down with Dr. Wayne. Every patient to him was like solving a Scooby Doo mystery. Sick kids were so young that, they could not always tell what was going on and parents were also at a loss for words. However, often times there were hints as to the illness. Arriving at a
It just so happens that I believe that I can best and most effectively “lend a hand” when a person is at their bodily weakest. From a single semester of shadowing—a total of 11.75 hours—under physicians and surgeons alike, I have experienced a taste of the medical field from the fascinating gruesome finesse of an open-heart surgery to the day-to-day clinical patient interaction that makes up so much of a medical professionals career. From a community standpoint, I believe that a person does not need to be a doctor to express and achieve care. Because of that, I have joined organizations such as Chords4Kids on the TCU campus—that sings nostalgic songs from the 2000s to down-syndrome children at the local education center as well as at retirement homes, and other events alike—and the TCU GO Center, which mentors local high-school students during their college application process. For the later, I have been given the responsibility as the Executive Organizer for their annual “College Access Day” which provides local students with college information workshops and campus tours. I have also actively
As someone who has many aspirations in life, I understand having both long and short-term goals is important. One of my long-term professional objectives includes being a community service manager at a health center. With this I am hoping to work with many other healthcare professionals to coordinate health programs and initiatives to improve the health of communities. Having a background in health promotion alongside the leadership and management skills and the real world experience that I intended to gain from this program will give me all I need to make this
Diffley’s role as a pediatrician is assisting, supervising, and coping with children from infants to twenty-one years old with measles, mumps, respiratory problem, respiratory, stomach infection, acute immune disease, bronchitis, and other infectious disease. Meeting, and communicating, interacting with families with different culture to help them understand parental education has to be the best part of his job. The most difficult part of his job is when he encounter children who are terminally ill. Being a family man himself, it has been always a challenge for him on how to deal and how to tell these patients how sick they are. Volunteering in different facilities, offices, summer internship jobs, or even joining medical mission specifically in underdeveloped countries are some of his advices to someone who wants to pursue and be successful in this job. He also suggest to have good test and note taking skills in college because it is such a fast phase environment to learn. The skill to summarize and take notes assist students to understand and analyze the context and remains in the long term memory. Being a doctor is not just a job that you get paid for, it is a devotion to mankind where your goal is to serve as a full time public servant. It is an unlimited commitment to deliver
My hypothesis was to determine the effects of maternal presence versus absence on sibling behavior.
As you sit in a classroom at the Community College, you may not think that saving a life is something you could do today, but, in fact, it's quite easy to do.
As a Pediatric NP, I will be responsible for using my knowledge and critical thinking skills to diagnose and treat the many complex medical conditions found in infants, children and adolescents, while also focusing on disease prevention and overall health promotion. I believe that my academic background has prepared me immensely for my graduate degree. While at Regis College, I completed my BSN in just 16 short months, and was honored to be a part of the first graduating class of the Accelerated BSN program. My previous bachelor’s degree at Westfield State was also something I am extremely proud of. I was able to change my major halfway through my freshman year, and still managed to complete my four-year BS degree in just 3 years. I am confident that I will be successful in this program, because I thrive in environments where I am put under extreme pressure and find myself most successful when I have more things to do and less time to do them. My time as an RN has also prepared me for this next step in my life by teaching me more about myself as a person and as a nurse. I have learned to better manage my time, and how to prioritize my days, while using my critical thinking skills to make changes to my plan as necessary throughout my
Observation is important as the practitioner can find out what the child is interested in and what motivates them to learn alongside their progress and how they behave in certain situations, additionally at the same time it identifies if children need assistance within certain areas of learning or socially (DCSF, 2008). Furthermore the observations check that the child is safe, contented, healthy and developing normally within the classroom or early years setting, over time the observations can be given to parents as they show a record of progress which helps to settle the parent and feel more comfortable about their child’s education. Observations are not only constructive within learning about an individual child, they can be used to see how different groups of children behave in the same situation and how adults communicate and deal with children’s behaviour (Meggitt and Walker, 2004). Overall observations should always look at the positives of what children can complete within education and not look at the negatives and all observations should become a fundamental part of all practitioners work alongside reflection (Smidt, 2009).
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