POL ANSWERS

How was your work as an intern meaningful to your education?

My work as an intern was very meaningful to my education. I have learned that school is a very important thing in life, even though sometimes I may not want to go or learn what I am being taught that what I learn now will be with me for the rest of life. If I want to follow in my desire of being a doctor I really need to get use to school because there are many years you need to complete in order to become a doctor. I have also learned that studying and reading is an important thing to do, because that is how you expand your vocabulary and your knowledge.


How was your work significant or meaningful to the world beyond school and your specific internship site?

My work here has been significant because I had a small part in helping the patient feel better. Even if I just went to get warm blankets, pillows, water, or just show them where the bathroom is, or just by smiling. I made a small impact in making them feel better and by just doing the small things people truly do remember.

What did you learn about your own work from your internship project?

From working at the hospital I have learned that people come in for problems they think are serious, in most cases they are, but from learning this I learned that when they come in you have to have humility and understanding and there are circumstances. First off you see the patient you introduce yourself to them and their family or friend, and you check with them to see what their problem is. After hearing their story and their complaints we help them to greatest ability we can. While being here in the emergency room I have seen and experience a lot. I have seen minor things such as someone fell and they just needed stitches or someone got something in their eye and needed their eyes cleaned. I have also seen more traumatic things such as a man losing his eye from surfing in his daily routine, patients who have diabetes and who don’t follow what they are suppose to do and are very close to death, and a man dying from cardiac arrest. From seeing these minor to tragic things you learn to have an appreciation and knowledge of that could have been me or a family member or a friend. It may sound selfish but it is the truth. When you are here you learn humility and appreciation for what you are doing to help these people. I may have just observed but just being able to know that the patient I have just seen will be okay is the greatest feeling of all time.

What new appreciations did you develop while working as an intern? Why?

I have learned to appreciate my life because you never know what can happen, a drunken driver can come and hit you from behind while you are just paying attention to what is in front of you. Form seeing these patients and just knowing that could have been you, you learn to live your life to fullest and to appreciate it and everyone in it.

What qualities or characteristics did you see in the people around you that you want to develop in yourself? Why?

While being here and being able to see the people around me and how they work I have notice that they come to work here because they love their job and the love helping people. They don’t work for the money and they don’t complain at all. The people here are very nice and just from seeing how they work in teams and they all get along it just made me feel like I was apart of the environment. From seeing these people characteristics I would like to develop would be their patients. Sometimes they do get patients who are hard to deal with and they never lose their temper and they are always polite and professional. I would like to develop this because I believe that it is a very import characteristic because it shows maturity.

How did your view of life beyond high school change or develop during your time as an intern?

I have learned to take care of yourself. Never do anything that will affect you later on in life, even if it just one smoke or one drink it will have an effect on you and if it does not effect you now it will effect you later on in life. I have seen so many people just in bad conditions because they did not take care of themselves. You need to learn how to eat right, exercise, and don’t follow others because that choice will lead you into the wrong direction.

What new questions has your internship inspired you to ask about our world? What has it made you wonder about? What are you moved to go out and do or learn about on your own time?

Being at my internship really has pushed me to be healthy because from seeing so many sick people it scares me that one day that can happen to me. So I try to eat healthy exercise to keep a healthy life. I really want to tell people that you are affected by what you put in your body from the McDonalds fries all the way to a shot you had. So I want people to know being healthy is a wonderful thing to be because in the long run it will save you a lot of trouble. My mentor told me the worse thing to be is old and fat because then your body will just shut don, because it is not healthy and from all the weight it makes it even harder for the body to work. So please stay healthy