Personal Narrative: My Internship At Miller's Children Hospital

This semester I did my last internship at Millers Children Hospital in Long Beach. I have learned how to maintaing my self professional, learn how to work with differnt type of people and overeal learn how to communicate with patients and give them and their family the support they need. The patients at Millers Children hospital are children that have cancer and are fighting to live, some are there for other reason. Being at Miller I am aware of my biasis and about mainatianing my self neutral. Miller has four playroom that has toys, art activities, and other volunteers that come in to teach the patients diffrent arts and craft and they give away a lot of gift. I have been to all four playroom and each one is very unique. I have learned how to run the playroom by my self with no supervision and make sure that all my patients that are in the play room are safe. Teaching the patient different art activities and getting to have one on one interaction is a wonderfull felling because even if they are not …show more content…
At Miller one of my task was to do bedside and advocate for my patient needs and wants. We are allowed to go into the patients room and ask them if they need anything from the playroom. Some of these children are not allowed to leave there room because they are either isolated because they are contagiouse or under a strong medication that gets them very drowsy or nausseated. Eventhough, they are not allowed to leave there room we are allowed to either keep them company or gather up some art activities or whatever they like and take it to them. I really love what Miller do for there patient its a great hospital and i am happy that I choose them to do my internship. They not only provide art activites or toys so the children can play but they also have ipad, dvd movies, playstatyons xbox that the patients can play. There also therapist that teach the children to play