My interest in the healthcare field stems from my childhood. My parents and relatives work as doctors, pharmacists, or engineers. Growing up, I listened to how they worked as a team to discuss solutions to make a difference in healthcare and how gratifying they felt when their solution worked. Moreover, I emulated them and dreamed of following them to make a difference as they did. These goals sparked my interest in the healthcare field and I currently volunteer as a pharmacy assistant to educate myself on the healthcare system. As part of the pharmacy team, I look at the patients’ charts and solve problems to satisfy patients’ needs. Every piece of information I received is addressed or forwarded to the appropriate personnel. When I come across documents unrelated to the …show more content…
At the clinic, the process to get the medications in the patient’s hands requires exceptional communication skills between the pharmacy and the health care providers. Hence, I follow up with the pharmacies and providers of any patients’ inquiries constantly to reduce any complications. Though, my teamwork and leadership skills improved drastically, by furthering those skills I can be successful in multiple healthcare areas such as managing medical information and providing quality patient care. The HIHIM program will challenge me as a future HIM professional so I can deliver high level productivity. The program offers an abundance of group assignments from the small group projects to the capstone to develop skills in management. Additionally, the program inspires cohesiveness with fellow classmates and instructors. Within this tight knit family, my goal is to bond and learn from them in their areas of expertise and work environment. The HIHIM program will guide me with new insight from the future and current HIM professionals I
Since I have been worked in Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, I was not surprised with the work load and the hospital setting at Millcreek Community Hospital (MCH). With a goal of enrichment my knowledge in a hospital pharmacy setting, I am enthusiastic in accomplishing the assigned duties. I have very high expectation during these four weeks of IPPE rotation; I expect to learn beyond what I already know in the past and apply what I learn during the past year in to pharmacy practice. Arriving at Millcreek Community Hospital, I was not surprised the pharmacy's setting in hospital but I'm surprised the different types of work I received. At Veteran Affairs Medical Center, all I ever did are filling the prescriptions, stocking, and managed automated machines but at MCH,
In today’s health care system it is important that students are educated and are also collaborative practice-ready when working with other health care professionals to achieve consistency, continuous and reliable care for their patients (Wood, Flavell, Vanstolk, Bainbridge & Nasmith, 2009). Interprofessional education is this concept that teaches students to work and learn by effectively collaborating with other health care professionals to maximise their potential as a profession (WHO, 2010). This in turn will teach students to be work-force ready to share his or her professional knowledge whilst understanding and being respectful of others’ work. This strengthens the workforce as it allows health professionals to make quick, informed decisions as it arises resulting in the delivery of the highest standard quality of care to their patients. Interprofessional education and team collaboration plays an important role in overcoming many challenges faced in the health industry. By understanding the concept of interprofessional education and collaboration, this will help to maximise the professionals’ skills leading to the provision of high and effective quality of care to achieve improved health outcomes (WHO, 2010). In order for the health care system to provide optimal and safe patient care, a number of mechanisms can be implemented to achieve this. Team collaboration and effective communication are the two factors that will provide safe and quality patient care (Gum, Prideaux, Sweet & Greenhill, 2012). An environment with a strong, collaborative working culture will reduce the communication barriers and will in turn decrease the conflicts that may arise within patient care.
New and very expensive technologies comes up in health care every day. As patients need health care services ranging from emergent care to preventive and elective procedures in a daily basis, there is a high job security in a health care field. Working in a health care field requires people skills (personality characteristics that enhance our ability to interact effectively with other people) and technical competence. Health care workers are a part of the nation’s fastest growing industry. Unlike working in grocery or retail stores, health care workers need to be aware of what is going on in the industry.
I have been a back office medical assistant (MA) in a pediatric and internal medicine clinic for the past four and a half years. I assist a pediatrician and an internist in providing direct patient care by assisting in examinations and procedures, taking medical histories, charting vitals, and explaining treatment plans. My role as an MA includes (but is not limited to) obtaining patients’ temperature, weight, and height, and calculating patients’ BMI. I collect blood specimens and perform all routine labs, such as visual and auditory tests and urinalysis. I am familiar with normal laboratory readings and can alert physicians to abnormal results and to other problems. I administer medications and prepare vaccines as directed by the supervising
I want to make a difference in the quality of patient care when and where I can. Although I do not work directly with patients, I do realize the impact I as a health information professional have on the patients and the care they receive.
I am interested in pursuing the Physician Assistant (PA) degree because of my experiences both within the medical field and as a patient. These experiences have led me to believe that a team approach to patient-centered medicine provides the best and most comprehensive care possible. Further, the PA profession offers me the opportunity to continue my lifelong passion of helping others, giving back to my community, and provides me with further opportunities to teach.
All in all, I believe that I have gained many skills throughout my time with my employer. I hope that once I do receive my degree healthcare management, I can apply even more skills to everyday challenges that may arise. In a field that’s growing rapidly, one can be assured that conflicts will always happen, and people will not always work together. With several team building activities, a higher employee morale can be achieved.
During my externship with Dr. Raji Gill, at the Oklahoma Urology Center, I’ve endured and furthermore attained more experience of what a medical assistant duties consist of on a daily and repetitive basis. These responsibilities are primarily multi-tasked oriented, which requires you to sometimes be able and flexible to execute your duties in at a fast setup. You fundamentally hold to be on task at all times, but it seems you can always overdo this because you forever have to be consistently engaged. This is all about utilizing time management and how this can help us succeed as medical assistants. Being a medical assistant involves being able to perform both clerical and clinical tasks. Clerical jobs include typing and answering phones and
I find myself privileged as I am the first generation from my family to complete Bachelor Degree. Therefore, "reaching perfection through adversity" is what inspired my journey of Physician Assistant studies. I am originally from small South-Asian country called Nepal, where I completed my High School education with science major. As a science student, I was always curious to know the cause, symptoms, prevention, and precaution of diseases. Unconsciously, I was trying to pursue medical profession. With a strong desire to help community and undeserved population, I got associated with organizations like: Red Cross and Rotary International during my High School education where I worked as a volunteer. These further strengthen my endeavor to pursue career in medical sector.
Pharmacy Technicians Despite popular belief, pharmacy technicians are more than laborers; they are special. trained individuals to be successful. Imagine a family member is admitted to the University of South Alabama Hospital with an acute case of pneumonia, which will require oral and intravenous medications. These medications must be precisely prepared and properly delivered. The common perception is that pharmacists prepare medications and technicians simply deliver them.
Healthcare administration is a field that is often overlooked, but is essentially the beating heart of any healthcare organization. With more and more hospital, and clinics, and other healthcare organizations popping up everywhere there is a need for people like me to manage the day-to-day operations. I am choosing to apply to this program because I want to study how the U.S. healthcare system operates. I want to learn the essential skills of operating a healthcare facility such as managing a budget, reducing healthcare costs, analyzing the efficiency of an organization and proposing ways to improve it. This program is going to give me the necessary education and skills so I can carry out my goal of being a healthcare administrator.
My mom always used to say,” Look at the person as a whole to understand the condition.” Even though it made little sense to me as a child, I learned the concept when I was doing my Internal medicine rotation. The passion of knowing that I could improve a person’s quality of life drew me into pursuing medicine. The multitude of different organ systems that one covers while practicing medicine fascinated me to delve into a field that encompasses them all - Internal Medicine. In addition, I enjoyed the challenges that Internal Medicine would provide me with its diversity. Altogether, Internal Medicine was the amalgam of everything I learned in my medical practice and decided to pursue my residency.
“At the end of the day, do what you love.” These simple words of advice are easy to comprehend yet difficult to define. Over the course of my medical training, I saught to define what I love to do and incorporate this into my personal and professional life. Medical school teaches you many things about yourself. It changes people in one way or another but some things remain withstanding.
I pleased to apply to the PharmD program as the program is one area that corresponds to my career dreams. Being part of this program gives one the opportunity to gain an excellent experience in working and collaborating with various health care providers in the ward. But more importantly, it facilitates a practical environment in dealing more closely with patients. Hence, it helps to provide the ultimate health care services to patients. Also, it permits me to carry on gaining different knowledge, skills, and values in addition to those I have already developed during my undergraduate studies. My interest in being a clinical pharmacist was first aroused during my SPEP rotation in the hospital setting where I was really impressed with the role of clinical pharmacists who provide a consistent process of patient care with healthcare teams to maintain the appropriateness, effectiveness and safety of the medication use. Unlike a pharmacist, a clinical pharmacist has a more diversified responsibilities and closeness to direct patient care. Moreover, provides
A career as a clinical pharmacist seems to be the goal was working up to my entire life, even before I knew what it was. As a child I found myself fascinated by what made people sick and how to make them feel better. This interest only continued to grow through my education, culminating in my decision to attend pharmacy school upon reaching adulthood.