Personal Narrative: My Experience As A Nurse At Coffman University

On November 10, 2015 from 9:00 A.M. to 10:30 A.M. in the Great Hall at Coffman Memorial Union in the University of Minnesota, I assisted the nursing and pharmacy students as they conducted their Immunization Tours on campus. I got there early and nothing had been set up yet. I talked to a nurse in charge and she gave me my volunteer t-shirt. She told me and the other three freshman nursing guarantee students to wait for a different nurse who would explain what we had to do. When she came, everyone started setting up. We helped set up and followed the instructions we were given. The nurse told us there were four jobs. Two of us would help out the people who had made appointments for the flu clinic, one would help the people who walked in, and one would guide the people to the correct table. My duty was to help out the people who walked-in. …show more content…
I would then hand them a form with information about the vaccine, and a form for their information. I would also tell them to wait and fill out the form with the nurse. I learned that the people counted on me to know what was going on because sometimes they would ask questions. It is important to have a good attitude when working with people because it usually makes them feel more comfortable. It is also important to know the roles of your teammates because then it ran more smoothly and you would know where to send people with questions. I also learned that people had to wait after to make sure they did not have a strange reaction to the vaccine. Overall, it was a very good