Pediatric endocrinology

registered nurse license! Once I have my RN license I would like to work in the pediatric unit or the neonatal intensive care unit. I love to take care of all kinds of people but children and babies are my passion. I will ultimately choose which unit will be main focus when I have experienced both. If I choose pediatric, I hope to work a few years in a hospital and then eventually transfer to a stand-alone pediatric clinic. If I choose to go neonatal I will have to stay at a larger…

Everyone has a dream or an idea of what a future career will entail for them. Some people may want to be a professional dancer, an astronaut or become a doctor. My dream is to change the lives of newborn babies every day. On a national average 3.6 million babies are lost every year. For me, becoming a neonatal nurse, I can help decrease this number every year and improve the lives of others. When you are a neonatal nurse you are able to experience things that normal jobs don’t see on a daily…

I am researching neurosurgery and everything that it takes to become a neurosurgeon. . It takes extreme amounts of hard work and dedication to become a neurosurgeon. Many hours will be spent studying to complete a degree in this medical field. Competition is tough to get into medical school these days. I am interested in researching neurosurgery because I am fascinated by the brain. It is truly incredible how the brain functions and controls everything that goes on in your body. There is still…

Becoming a pediatrician has been something that I’ve thought about for a long time. I’ve always had a passion for kids since I have younger siblings I’ve learned to deal with them when their sick, need help and can’t fully communicate what’s wrong with them as well as just overall being there for them. For a long time I battled between the decision of becoming an actual doctor, a nurse or a pediatrician. Being a doctor didn’t hit a nerve in a positive way to me. Doctors to me don’t have a…

Imani Moore Rita J. Czukas SOCSCI 201 Research paper draft 18 November 2015 Infant Death According to Dr. Mary Harding, in 2013 there were approximately 24,000 stillbirths and neonatal deaths reported in the United States (Harding, para 1). Many people today really don’t have knowledge on stillbirth and neonatal death until they come across it. Stillbirth is death of a baby before and during delivery. Neonatal death is when a baby dies in the first 28 days of life. In many cases the direct cause…

I remember doing an interview with the yearbook coordinators in grade 8 and her asking what do you want to do? My answer, a paediatrician. Even with my limited knowledge of medicine, I knew medicine was my ultimate career choice. Following this interaction, I did as most kids do and binge searched the topic. I googled, ‘how to become a paediatrician?’ Mind you, my grasp of the English language was very rudimentary at the time since I had just immigrated to Canada two years prior. The google…

In the late 1900s scientists were able to describe a rare congenital genetic disease called “1p36” for the first time. Later, in 2001, a girl named Sonia was born; two weeks after her birth, she had heart failure and her parents had to take her to the hospital due to low vital signs; that was the first time doctors noticed that there was something wrong with her. A couple of days later, they realized that not only her heart wasn’t functioning properly, but she had low muscle tone, and seizures.…

Throughout the years, people in the workforce are making mistakes in their respectful jobs and it’s affecting their work business overall. With these mistakes keep piling up, workers will feel guilty towards themselves for developing bad habits and they are having a hard time changing it. There have been high rates of death in employees and in consumers and this can result in a bad reputation for businesses. People that are working for a long period of time are faced with these kinds of…

A reflex is a simple, involuntary, or automatic action that the human body does in response to certain types of stimulation without you even having to think about it. Every healthy person has many different types of reflexes, most of which we are born with. From the beginning newborns automatically know how to root for the breast for feeding or grasp a finger. Reflexes are the most complex motor activities that neonates demonstrate. Infants have dozens of reflexes there are three sets critical…

Back when I was six, I was standing on the streets of Saigon when suddenly, BANG! A motorcycle backed up into me and my head slammed into the metal gates behind me. My skull started bleeding and I blacked out. I was rushed to the hospital. Another time, I was standing on a chair when suddenly I fell, cutting my chin. Again, I was rushed to the hospital. Needless to say, I was an accident prone child and a lot of my early memories took place in the hospitals of Vietnam. When I came to America, my…