Job Shadows and internships
Summer Internship 2018 at Star Tutors
This summer I got the opportunity to work with the CEO of Star Tutors. Star Tutors is an online tutoring program made in California, they specialize in helping to prepare for the SAT/ACT, and to influence students to learn more, and help them with there education. I worked as a summer intern for 4 and a half weeks, gathering information on different schools, within out surrounding school districts in Colorado, and
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California. I was looking at if each school had SAT/ACT prep programs, so if they didn't STAR could reach out to them and make sure that these kids could get a chance at test prep. It was really cool to be working for this company because they are doing something that will change education for kids that need it, and it was awesome to be a part of it. I feel like through this internship I was able to help make a difference in kids futures.
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Sophomore year at the Hampden Surgery Center
I completed a one day shadow at the Hampden Surgery Center. I arrived that day and they gave me scrubs a hair net and a mask and asked me to go change. Before I went in I thought that maybe I was just going to watch for another room, a viewing room. But when I went in they let me stand next to the Doctor and watch everything that was happening up close, so they could show me what was happening and explain everything. It was really neat, and a great learning experience because I got to see a shoulder reconstruction surgery, and an open knee surgery. This is an experience that I will never forget because it is something that most people will never get to see unless they work in the medical field. It was amazing to know what medicine can do now days, and I am grateful that I could open up my eyes to it, and learn about it. One day I might go in to surgery or be a surgeons nurse, because it really did fascinate me.
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Sophomore year at Colorado Family Optical
I spent a few days at the Colorado Family Optical in Centennial Colorado. One of the cools things I learned by spending a few days in an eye office, is that its not just one or two things. There are so many components that go along with it. Yes it is mainly exams and correcting eyes, finding peoples prescriptions and getting them glasses, or contacts. But there are also so many things about the eyes that I didn't know. For three days I fallowed around the doctors and nurses who worked there and did workup and exams, so I could learn about how to check someones eyes. I also learned about something called a lazy eye as most people know it, and that is basically when someones eye is not stronger than the other, and it begins to wander and the child doesn't use it as much.
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They patch the good eye so they can help the lazy eye or wandering eye to become stronger. I also learned they need to do this before a child is 7 to 10 because that is when there eyes are developing the most and the best bet at helping them to correct. Another day I did fallow around another doctor but it was a little different because this time I got to see some different x-rays and computerized activities they do to test, and look deeper into the eyes. One of the last days that I was there I worked in there optical office helping out calling people to let them know that there glasses or lens was in, or helping people who walked in. This was something so simple but I loved doing it because it opened my eyes to everything that happened behind the scenes and it gave me some experience in that field. Coming out of this shadow opportunity I will say that I enjoyed it very much and I can see me having a future in eyes.
Freshmen year at 20 Mile Urgent Care
The staff at 20 mile urgent care were gracious enough to let me join their team for a few days to learn, and help. I followed around Dr. Morrison, a doctor at our very own 20 Mile Urgent care. I got to learn about medicine, and how to prescribe medicine, diagnose patients, and do follow up and paperwork, and there was a brief moment that I fixed a tent pole. But medicine, and diagnoses is not all that they do. They also connect with their patients and make sure that they know they have a friend. There wasn’t one patient that we had that we did not have a conversation with. I was given the opportunity to see the real world and really understand what it was like, know what I am going to need to know in the future.
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My first day went great, I was in aw when I first got there it was so organized, and it was different from other urgent cares or doctors offices that I had been in. They had a system going on, and they worked online so that they could say this patient is check in, put it on a nurses schedule, and then if a nurse helped them, then to put in on the doctor's schedule. The patients them self were very helpful and understanding, even when they did know me they were fine with me coming in and helping them out, they would even ask me questions and have a conversation with me.
My favorite part of the internship thus far is probably getting treated like I am a real nurse. I get to go in and introduce myself to the patients and then ask them how they are feeling, what is wrong, and get them to open up a little bit before the doctor comes in. And then when Dr. Morrison did come in I would tell him what I knew and stand to the side. Ask he talked to who ever was in there, he would ask me do you agree, or what do you think we should do, and then he would show me different things, like what a strep throat might look like, or what an ear infection, will do to your ear and why we know that. Throughout the whole internship/job shadow there wasn’t one thing that I found I hated or was unsatisfied with, the whole experience was amazing. I feel like when I was at my internship/job shadow that I was treated like I was an employee, or a colleague, not like a high school student. Some things that I noticed that you needed to know or different qualities that you needed to have for the trip was that you needed to be able to talk to people, know how to comfort them and make them feel welcome. You also need to know how to be relaxed but also confident so that the people you are treating feel confident.
My favorite part of the internship thus far is probably getting treated like I am a real nurse. I get to go in and introduce myself to the patients and then ask them how they are feeling, what is wrong, and get them to open up a little bit before the doctor comes in. And then when Dr. Morrison did come in I would tell him what I knew and stand to the side. Ask he talked to who ever was in there, he would ask me do you agree, or what do you think we should do, and then he would show me different things, like what a strep throat might look like, or what an ear infection, will do to your ear and why we know that. Throughout the whole internship/job shadow there wasn’t one thing that I found I hated or was unsatisfied with, the whole experience was amazing. I feel like when I was at my internship/job shadow that I was treated like I was an employee, or a colleague, not like a high school student. Some things that I noticed that you needed to know or different qualities that you needed to have for the trip was that you needed to be able to talk to people, know how to comfort them and make them feel welcome. You also need to know how to be relaxed but also confident so that the people you are treating feel confident.