When I was younger, I always wanted to be a doctor seeing as I grew up in the medical field having a parent that works in it; I have seen all aspects of the medical field from the billing and coding all the way to surgery. I always knew I wanted to do something in the medical field, but I did not know what. I always choose to be a doctor because at a young age you really do not know many other fields besides the doctor. It was not until middle school that I began to find the love in helping people and the science aspect of things. That also is when I learned about other positions and really started to look into them. Realizing that there are more positions in the medical field such as nurses, phlebotomist, Physician Assistants, and many more.
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So I focused on keeping my math and science grades up and took electives in high school like medical terminology and a vocational class called Health Occupations. With taking the Health Occupations class I learned how competitive the nursing field was. Graduating highschool I was still determined to go into nursing so I choose to go to Oakland Community College and I did all the general education requirements and applied to the registered nurse program and got waitlisted and then I looked into their phlebotomy program and found out that they only take 12 people a year and I did not wanna wait a year to continue my education and who knows if they would have taken me that following …show more content…
My goal is to work with younger children I wanna be able to help that kid that once favorite activity was to swim and now can not, know you can still do all the fun things that you did before, just now you get to do it in a cooler way. No kid should ever feel like they can not live a happy fun life because they have a disability. In the Cathy O’keefe paper she talked about how in 1978 her twin sons required surgery and she realized that there was a lack of child-centered activities and I think even in 2016 there is a lack of activities for children that can help kids rehabilitate faster. I think that doctors are so focused on getting the child healthy and out the door that they don 't make things fun. There was this one time I was at the hospital where my mom worked wondering and i seen this lady working with this young boy and she had him trying to pick up a fork and he seemed so uninterested and bored. With I feel we can accomplish some of the same milestones just by focusing on the person 's overall well being instead of just there
So I focused on keeping my math and science grades up and took electives in high school like medical terminology and a vocational class called Health Occupations. With taking the Health Occupations class I learned how competitive the nursing field was. Graduating highschool I was still determined to go into nursing so I choose to go to Oakland Community College and I did all the general education requirements and applied to the registered nurse program and got waitlisted and then I looked into their phlebotomy program and found out that they only take 12 people a year and I did not wanna wait a year to continue my education and who knows if they would have taken me that following …show more content…
My goal is to work with younger children I wanna be able to help that kid that once favorite activity was to swim and now can not, know you can still do all the fun things that you did before, just now you get to do it in a cooler way. No kid should ever feel like they can not live a happy fun life because they have a disability. In the Cathy O’keefe paper she talked about how in 1978 her twin sons required surgery and she realized that there was a lack of child-centered activities and I think even in 2016 there is a lack of activities for children that can help kids rehabilitate faster. I think that doctors are so focused on getting the child healthy and out the door that they don 't make things fun. There was this one time I was at the hospital where my mom worked wondering and i seen this lady working with this young boy and she had him trying to pick up a fork and he seemed so uninterested and bored. With I feel we can accomplish some of the same milestones just by focusing on the person 's overall well being instead of just there