How do you summarize 16 years of life into a few minutes? Especially the life of a medically fragile child. I’m going to do my best. Our journey with UI Children’s Hospital began 16 years ago when our daughter Reagen was born. She was transferred to UI Children’s Hospital from our local hospital when she was three days old.…
It was my first day of training. UCSD Medical Center (or whatever the name is). First stop: Emergency Room. As I walked inside I saw doctors and nurses bustling about. To my left a resident was stitching up a bicyclist who had been in an accident.…
It was the first day of our medical mission trip. The 13 of us were divided into four group: triage, clinic, pharmacy, and faith. Colin, Laure, and I sat in plastic white lawn chairs, facing the locals who sat on three wooden benches. We had prepared a short, spiritual lesson to bring Jesus’ love to the rural cities of the Dominican Republic. When I welcomed them in their native language, their faces softened.…
During my internship experience, I learned a lot of things that I thought I knew but are misconstrued on. With that being said, I know everything must be done in decent order or this will cause chaos and lead to confusion. I also learned everything takes patience and is very time- consuming. I became frustrated, so many times and just wanted to give up, but I had to remind myself that hard times are going to come and everything is going to work out. Many times I sat on my bed crying because it seems like everything piled on me at one time.…
By the time I received the email announcement that University of Michigan Health System diagnosed me with Acquired Dyscalculia, I felt like sinking into a bottomless glacial. Everything around me appeared as featureless hollow darkness. I heard with a chill on my back that the car accident occurred last summer was speculated to be cause. It was on way home back from Thailand, where I went to support the education at Vieng Neua Primary School as a volunteer. I was afraid, indeed, that the dyscalculia—a name that I had not heard before and a disease I was totally not familiar with—would jeopardize and ruin my study and life.…
Scraping your knee on the sidewalk, getting hit hard with the basketball, falling off the monkey bars, these are just a few examples of ways you can get hurt at school. The worst case scenario is you would end up going to the school nurse as a result of an accident. Before first grade, suffering an injury was way out of the norm for me. The only time I got hurt in first grade, I bypassed the school nurse and went straight to the hospital. It was a scalding August afternoon, and I just finished another tiring day of first grade.…
For as long as I can remember, I have dreamed of being a Nurse, specifically a Pediatric Nurse. It began when I was 8 years old, I was always sick. I had stomach problems and stayed in a Pediatric hospital for days, sometimes even weeks. During my times in the hospital, I became close with many of the doctors and nurses. I recall feeling upset at times, not scared.…
I have done my fall internship at the same school but during the day. I feel that there is a lot I can do to support the students both academically and emotionally. During the first meeting with the counselor she expressed that being bilingual and bi-cultural will help. I know that there are not many opportunities to talk or have sessions with students, since they don’t have elective classes where I can see them, but I will try my best to be flexible with their schedules. I found out that they have a student government association, so I will try to be involved in their activities,…
I can remember career days in elementary school, some students dressed as pop-stars, some were teachers, and others FBI agents. As for me, however, I was a pediatric cardiologist. Becoming a doctor has been my aspiration for as long as I can remember and I cannot imagine pursuing a career in anything other than medicine.…
It was a very sunny day when I interviewed my old pediatrician. He used to work in the Emergency department when he was younger before switching over to pediatrics. I approached him with questions regarding dilemmas in pediatrics when he told me about an incidence in the emergency department which was a difficult case for him during his resident year. The case history…
The internship’s place that I got accepted is Camden County Partnership for Children, Inc. Camden County Partnership for Children is an organization that started their services on January 1, 2004 which was initiated by statewide to develop services that can help families with children with mental, emotional and behavioral challenges. Camden County Partnership for Children is also a non-profit case management organization that obtains supports from the New Jersey of Child Behavioral Health. Children involves in the programs most of the time are usually going through educational, legal, psychological or social challenges or normally are involved with multiple social service systems.…
I had the opportunity to go to Yakima Pediatrics and follow a nurse. I really enjoyed my experience, as I loved the nurse I followed. She explained everything and really advocated for me. I was able to observe stitched being removed and gave lots of shots, which I was nervous, yet excited about. I actually really liked giving shots to pediatric patient’s as I enjoyed aiding them through this “scary” procedure, as I once felt that same fear.…
I walked into OHSU trembling with fear and clutching onto of my parents’ hands unwilling to let go. It felt like I was walking into the unknown, but in reality, I was walking into the cardiac surgery department for an open heart surgery. I was only four years old. I didn’t even know what a surgery meant! Although my parents and doctor tried to explain the surgery to me, I didn’t understand any of it.…
Another day went by in the Brookville General hospital. And it feels great because every week there is something new which makes you gain a new understanding about s skill. My shift started by listening to the report to find out how my assigned patient was doing. I had a patient who suffered from ankle fracture and as usual, I started by checking her vital signs, level or orientation and also skin assessment from head to toe to find out if everything within normal range. However, pain assessment took a part in my assessment, especially since she suffered from physical injury.…
I have known from a young age that I wanted to do something exceptional in my life. Something about helping others drew me in, so I knew a career in the medical field would be my best fit. It was not until a traumatic day in my life occurred that made me realize I was bound to be a nurse. I have played volleyball for five year, my senior year was not an exception. Volleyball was the only sport I played and my passion.…