Reflection: Gilchrist Grater Living

Reflection Paper The time I have spent at Gilchrist Services/ Gilchrist Grater Living has helped become more professional and has to strengthen my management skills. My preceptor’s role was to guide me on the overall survey process. In addition, she informed me that previous interns have tried to get more participants by creating new surveys; however, the surveys that they created did not get consent outcome after the interns left. So, during the four months of my internship, I have completed a project that will be useful for Gilchrist Services. The project involved critical thinking to implement or create a new survey that will motivate more patients to take surveys especially older adults. It was somewhat challenging because the practice …show more content…
This internship experience has taught me the correct ways of handling certain situations in a professional manner. In addition, I learned the function of health care system and had the opportunity to use the hospital’s electronic paper filing system. Furthermore,this internship has developed my customer service skills because I was able to interact with clients on the phone throughout the day. In comparison to my first day at GMBC, I can see my growth as a leader in management. I now have more confidences in my ability to make independent decisions on my own. I also had the opportunity to network with people in my field of study by talking to people with advanced credentials in the healthcare field. This opportunity gave me an insight on the types of job descriptions that are related to the people I interviewed . The information that I obtain from these interviews helped me narrow down the type of jobs that are suitable to help me reach my career …show more content…
Over my entire learning contract was successful. My strengths will be being confident throughout my internship experience and my weakness would be I always completed every task that was giving to me from my previous experience. However, for this job not all tasks can be done within 24 hours and this made me feel like I haven’t completed anything. I’m planning to accept that part of the job and be okay with it. In terms of what I would have done differently for the internship was to have at least a basic knowledge of how the facilities operate before I started working on the site. This technique would have saved me the time I have spent working on the research to understand what the facilities are all