Final week of Internship

1. Look back to your earliest posts . What were you goals ? Did you meet these goals ?
   Before this assignment my goals was to learn more new things from the co-workers and learn more experience/information about physical therapy .Well, I did meet those goals.First i learn a lot new things from mine co-worker such as like each part of human body,Pathogen ,Physical therapy material , patients' care ,etc . and I also did learn more information/experience about physical therapy ,i learn a lot things from one of the physical therapy (Ben).He teach me how to use Mercury manometer (information about mercury manometer ) so now i know how to use it[ I check myself the blood pressure] , And also i learn how to use/listen stethoscope it was so fun the first time when i know how it work because i can heard myself heart beating .
   
   
2. What are the most important thing you've learned ?
   The most important things I've learn is Clean skills /Basic PT/OT information/Paper skills/Communication skill .
   
   
3. In what ways have your grown as a student/young adult ?
   After we finish the Internship i feeling like i grown in this ways : More organized time/Plan for everything , Know what's called busy and tired ,Step by step to finish everything , Can't be late to work site .
   
   
4. What were the highlights of your internship experience?
   The first two weeks i only know how to clean the sheet and how to talk to patients' ,but after these 12 weeks i have been learned more experience about physical therapy and Basic work such as like: Mercury manometer/Sphygmomanometer , Stethoscope ,Talk to patients', Change patients' Schedule , Paper work ,And organized .
   
   
5. Describe a memorable moment or experience.
   The memorable moment in my internship site is the Volunteers' Ceremony when my mentor give me a award and the gift ,Because in this day i feel little bit nervous and worry about what happen .But then the moment when i go up to shake a hand with my mentor , i feel so proud of myself .
   
   
6. What challenges did you overcome ?
   The challenges i have in my internship site are still the same as the old one ,the PT/OT/Nursing/Doctor use big/hard words but i always ask them (Can you explain it / What that mean?)
   
   
7. What advice would you give a new internship at the site ?Your answer to this question will be used next year with the upcoming juniors .
   I would say this site are really helpful for the nursing or some basic information you need to know about nursing because there are nice/helpful/smart people in there and they feel free to help us answer questions.
   
8. What will you miss about your internship ?
   Miss about mine internship site ? Well i will miss everything from my internship because that is first place to give me a lot of experience for future/Basic information about mine future career . All the kind ,Care and love people always helping me ,taught me and talk care me (Specially one of the physical therapy Ben. ) I have to thanks him so much .
   

Week 11 - Weekly Vocabluary

Word: Credentialed
Meaning:Evidence of authority, status, rights or the like, usually in written form.
Context :She has been credentialed to teach math.(From reading )

Word: Collaborator
Meaning: Someone who helps on a task.
Context:Allison was Allen's collaborator because he did the research and she wrote the briefs.(From SAT Book's)

Word:Squander
Meaning:To waste
Context:My friend Allen has been squandering all his earn on lottery tickets .(From News paper)

Word:Sphygmomanometer
Meaning: An instrument for measuring blood pressure and especially arterial blood pressure.
Context:I start to learn how to use sphygmomanometer to measuring blood pressure .(From Co-worker Ben.)

Word:stethoscope
Meaning:An instrument used in listening to internal body sounds.
Context:The first time when i use stethoscope i was so excited! (From Co-worker Ben)

Week 11-Floor Plan

Internship site :Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers
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Week 10 - Mentor Interview

Interview Questions :

1. What is your full name ?
   Khyati Patel
   
2. Where are you from (City , State , Country)?
   New Jersey
   
3. Where did you go to college ? For how long? Do you plan to go back to school?
   She go to college in India for 3 1/2 years ,and she doesn't want to go back school .
   
4. What was your major in college and what kind of degree did you earn ? Did you attend graduate school for an advanced degree ? If yes , what degree and where ?
   The major i have in college it wads Science /Bachelor of physical therapy .
   
5. Why did you choose your professional field?
   Becasue she want to being a healthcare personal , and can help out people at the same time i can earn money for better living .
   
6. Why did you choose this particular job at this particular company ?
   Because this particular company hospital and good reputation .
   
7. How long have you worked here ?
   She have been work in Saint Vincent for 14 months .
   
8. What is your job title ?
   The job title is Staff Physical theory .
   
9. What is your duties include ? Or what kinds of work does your job involve ?
   The work have to involve health care.
   
10. What is the best part of your job ?
    The best part of her job is Helping/Assisting the old aged people to improve their functional status to help them live better life .
    
11. Did you work somewhere else before this job ? Where? for how long ? How was that similar/different ?
    Yes, she does . She worked at Mount-Vernon hospital ,she had about the similar Duties /Responsibilities,there since it was the same kind of hospital .
    
12. What do you see as your future with this company ?
    She want to continue to work as staff physical theory & Improve her professional relations her supervisor.
    
13. Do you enjoy the kind of work you do ? Why or why not ?
    Yes , She enjoy her work.
    
14. Do you plan to open your own business one day ?
    No.
    
15. What advice would you give to high school-aged interns preparing to find a career in the real world ?
    Always try to keep a good balance between your study & Other activities & Never compromise on our education for anything .
    

Before you conduct your interview , consider these ideas :

• Who do you want to interview ?The person i want to interview is one of mine co-worker(katyte).
  

• What do you already know about that person?The things i know about this person are: She's from India , Married , Have a eight month baby ,Physical theory staff .
  

• What do you want to know about that person?I want to know about this person are : How can she learn English so fast ? How hard ? How old is she ? and all the questions from the list of interview questions .

Week 9 -Weekly Vocabulary

Word: Rheumatoid arthritis
Meaning: A chronic autoimmune disease characterized by inflammation of the joints.
Context: Rheumatoid arthritis are always appear when we getting older .(From my co-worker"Ben".)

Word:Gel
Meaning: Is a solid, jelly like material that can have properties ranging from soft and weak to hard and tough.
Context: I saw a physical theory using gel helping the patient's doing feet massage .(From my con-worker.)

Word:Absorb
Meaning:To soak up or consume.
Context :Johnny forgot to watch basketball game on Sunday , as he was too absorb in his studies.(From SAT book.)

Word :Abhor
Meaning: Dislike or hate.
Context : Susan abhor grace because she didn't go out shopping with her .(From my friends)

Word :Impeach
Meaning :to challenge the credibility.
Context : Someone is impeach Sam because he's doing something wrong .(From US history class)

Week 8/9 - Midpoint Reflection

1. How has the internship been the same as and/or different than your expectation?
   My expectation of my internship are learn some based skills of Nursing/Physical theory and now i think my expectation are exceed because feeling like i learn more than i through.
   
   
2. What is similar and different about the culture of the school environment versus the workplace environment ?
   The different between school environment and workplace environment are school are a lot of noisy ,people can laugh loudly and you can see trash everywhere .Workplace environment which is Saint Vincent Hospital are a quiet place , everything is clean ,and organized .But the similar thing are they both environment is the place can learned .
   
   
3. What new skills have you learned that apply to the workplace?Which of these are transferable skills ?
   Some of the new skills i have learned in my workplace are Organized skill :They always ask me for help to organized stuff and it also can help myself to organized my house and my school work stuff. Clean skills:I have to clean up every time when a patient's finish and also sometimes they send me to the OT kitchen to wash and clean stuff. Communication skills : When the PT/OT/Nursing have free time they will come talk to me about school/colleges/hospital .
   
   
4. What kind of relationship do you have with your mentor and co-worker?How have you grown as result of interacting with professional adults?What kinds of communication (Verbal and non-verbal skills)have you gained?
   The relationship between me and mentor/co-worker are very good and kind they always help me and teach me a lot of different kind of based physical theory skills .Interacting with professional adults i have been grown more brain storm (think before i do something) and know more about how a adult work .During my work time i do the both communication which Verbal and non-verbal skills , Verbal we used when we talk with some patient's are comfortable with speaking and the non-verbal communication are used for the patient's have hard time to speak .
   
   
5. What challenges at the internship have you faced that you have overcome and how did you overcome them ?
   There's some of the challenges things at my internship : They always used a lot of big/hard words when they speak (Sometimes i ask them what that mean but sometimes i do not.) And sometimes they ask me to help with something and i really doesn't understand (I always ask them repeat and ask "Sorry,I don't understand what that mean?").
   
   
6. What challengers have you faced in school as result of the altered schedule and how are you handling them ?
   The challengers i have to faced in school are the homework time and classes work because we have a new different schedule and after work we actually feel tired but the way we hand it is catch up all the time you have and use it to do homework and study .
   
   
7. What goals are you working to accomplish during the remaining five weeks of the internship ?
   For the rest of five weeks of the internship .My goals are learn more new things from the co-workers ,learn more experience of physical theory and try my best to do every single thing .
   
   
8. What new things have you learned about New York City ?
   The new things i have learned about New York City is the hospital systems because compare to china hospital's there's a lot things are different .Such as the patient's bedroom ,the way of nurse's/doctor's/ dress ,the way how the hospital work ,etc .
   

Week 7-Weekly vocabulary

Word:Ultrasound
Meaning:The application of ultrasonic waves to therapy ,as in deep-heart treatment of a joint .
Context:On this Sunday my grandmother gonna go to do ultrasound .(From Hospital corridor 2nd floor.)

Word:Cardiopulmonary
Meaning:Affecting the heart and lungs .
Context:I really want to go to cardiopulmonary laboratory .(From a book called "Lists of rehabilitation".)

Word:Geriatrics
Meaning:The branch of medicine dealing with diseases and care of aged persons .
Context:I want to learn more about geriatrics processes and problems.(From my co-worker)

Word:Audiologists
Meaning:The study of hearing including rehabilitation of patients with hearing impairments.
Context:I always want to study audiologists.(From Hospital corridor 2nd floor.)

Word:Accreditation
Meaning :to regard as true or to believe.
Context:I think everyone have to accreditation each other .(From my SAT book)

Week 5 -Weekly Vocabulary

Week five ,I didn't learn a lot vocabulary from my internship site .
There's some vocabulary i don't understand :

Word :Occupational Therapy (OT)
Meaning :a form of therapy in which patients are encouraged to engage in vocational tasks or expressive activities, as art or dance, usually in a social setting.
Context:Occupational therapy are limitations to participate in everyday life.

Word: Physical Therapy (PT)
Meaning : the treatment of physical disability.
Context: I want to be a physical therapy in the future .

Word: Rehabilitation
Meaning: to restore to a condition of good health or ability to work.
Context:There's a lot different kind of rehabilitation PT and OT is the two of them .

Word :Licensure
Meaning:The act or an instance of granting a license, usually to practice a profession.
Context:I show mine licensure to my teacher .

Word:Orthopedic
Meaning :The brance of medicine that deals with prevention .
Context:Jimmy just get transport to orthopedic .

Week 4-The End of the Fourth Week of internship

PART ONE:
Mine internship work-site are at Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers .
Saint Vincent is a major health care resource in the greater New York Metropolitan area.The system is anchored by Saint Vincent's hospital Manhattan in historic Greenwich Village , which serves as the academic medical center for new york medical college in new york city .Compared our school neighborhood and there are so different in Manhattan there's a lot building and Bussiness but our school neighborhood are like a town where people live .
Mentor Name : Dr.Patricia Cusack
She's Nice always take care of us . If we have any problems she love to help us to solve and she always want us to learn more stuffs in the hospital (Find our goals)
In this week(Week four) i had done a lot things (Same things as before).

PART TWO:
1.When do you leave school ?
I leave school around 11:45AM.
2.How long does it take you to get to your internship?
I think it takes one hour.
3.When do you arrive at home ?
The time i got home is around 6 o'clock because right now the Q train does't stop at Ave U so i have to take it to Sheephead Bay or Stillwell Ave and take back to Ave U .
4.What is your Schedule?(What days do you work and for how long each day?)
My Schedule are Monday to Thursday 1:00PM to 4:00PM
5.Who are the two people that can sign your time card?(Your mentor and the additional person)
There's only one person sign mine Time card (My mentor) ,If she absent ,she will help me sign it next day .

PART THREE:
There's nothing between third week and fourth week because i keep doing the same jobs (Over-over again).The thing I like my internship are work with patients because i hear from my friends (Also work in hospital) They can't close to the patients . There's nothing dislike about mine internship .
List of people Comments & Read mine blog :

1. Tina.G
   
2. Youstina.R
   

Week 3 - Life as a High School Intern

Week Three , So many things are happening as days pass .
I have been working in my internship place for three weeks , Something that i from the time i start until the time i leave :

1. Sign-In
   
2. Change clothes , shoes and pants
   
3. going down to basement then go up to the 6 floor
   
4. Clean all the bed sheet (Change)
   
5. Go to clean the an other gym room
   
6. Sometimes clean the kitchen room
   
7. Stay in the gym room (Wait until they need me )
   
8. Sometimes patients call me to help them
   (Hold wheel chair & Help them get into bed & Clean stuffs that they want me to)
   
9. Go back to Office
   
10. Change Back
    
11. Go home
    

I work with a partner .She's my classmate name called "Paola" , We always work together help each other lot .

LITTLE STORY ABOUT INTERNSHIP :
There's a story about mine internship site .In this week when i was free there's a doctor came to sit with us and tell us about nursing , college,degree's etc. After she telling me that i feel much stronger about my life and know more about what i have to do next (College and Study ). That's the little story about me !

Week 2-Getting better acquained with your site

Week two, in this week i start new assignment because in Nursing floor i have nothing to do (A lot free time) so our mentor give me a new assignment . so now my assignment is
Rotation :Rehabilitation
Location : Coleman 6
Contact :Carols

• Help patient hold their wheel chair
  
• Clean bed & Stuffs
  
• Organized stuffs
  
• Help patient walk & get in the bed

and till 4 o'clock i go back to my mentor office change the clothes , pants and shoes then go home .

My First Week of Intership

Internship site: Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Center
Mentor's full name : Dr.Patrcia cusack
Internship site address: Volunteer Department (153 West 11Th Street , New York ,NY 10011)
Rotation: Nursing
Location: COLEMAN 7
Contact: Barbara Woods

Congratulations to everyone !
The first week of mine internship was great .I'm working at a hospital called "Saint Vincent". My job are helping patient to put some ice/water or help patient call nurse or talk to some of the patient are lonely .And the Rotation that i work are at Nursing(Coleman 7)

Remember on the first day i was taking the D train to West 4 Street i was so Nervous ,Worry and Excited .Worry about i will do something wrong , Excited about I'm gonna working at a hospital ! At 12:30PM we go in to the Volunteer Department to meet my internship mentor Ms.cusack she help us to get a Volunteer ID card and bring us to the place that we going to work . First we went to meet my Nursing Contact Barbara Woods then we meet all the nurse and they tell us to go to each room put some ice water for the patient.After that we just sit there for 2 hours (So boring) ! Then on Wednesday and Thursday we talk to doctor's they all tell us to Study Hard !! and we went to talk to a patient!!

On Thursday we tell our mentor we have nothing to do in there sit there for two hours , she were sad and doesn't want us to sit there for two hours so she call an other nursing building ask if they have a lot work for us to do .Monday new assignment for me !

Hope mine internship going well !