My Personal Experience Of Helping Others

Since I can remember I have always enjoyed helping others. I like the after feeling of contentment I receive from seeing the smile on peoples’ faces in appreciation for what I am able to do for them. Helping others is self-rewarding and it is what gives me daily energy to continue what I am best at. I’ve always loved feeling the satisfaction of working with others. I used to love coming home from school to help my mom with chores. I knew by me helping her, the day would be better and as a result she would be able to sit and relax. I became a Medical Assistant right after high school with my mission of caring for others. I worked many years for an Internal Medicine doctor’s office. There I took patient’s vital signs and screened them as they

In addition, seeing the way the excessive number of patients from all different cultures with chronic diseases coming in for care. Unfortunately, I was able to observe that many of the Hispanic patients were not nutritionally educated on what foods to eat or had the slightest clue on how their food mannerisms affected their medical condition. For example, some knew that lard was not good to consume, but were unsure how it affected their health. As a medical assistant, I felt impotent not being able to provide some type of nutrition education because it was out of my scope of practice. Not knowing much about nutrition gave me an interest in learning more about it. I began to read and the more I read, the more I became convinced that the nutrition field was definitely for me. I began from that moment forward taking better care of my body through eating healthier food choices and becoming more active physically.

I am now a senior at Fresno State, five years later, still working and studying hard to get where I want to be. This upcoming Spring I plan to graduate and get into a dietetic internship. After completing a dietetic internship, I want to become a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDR) to work with the high numbers of diabetics within our population. As a Registered Dietitian (RD), I know I can to contribute to our society by helping reduce

However, unfortunately, I have not had the opportunity to volunteer in a clinical healthcare setting, because of time constraints but I know that this is where I want to be. I would like to work in an assisted living facility or nursing care facilities to work with the elderly people because I know they are the fastest growing consumers of healthcare that are in need of assistance from professionals like me. In addition, I also like to work closely with physicians and other medical staff as a team player to assist patients better in their health. Furthermore, the environmental setting brings excitement to me because there is something new every day and never a dull