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CCU Reflective Essay

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Events in my life that will influence my academic work and goals as a student at CCU are, being a healthcare provider and phlebotomist for the past eight years. The other would be my struggles growing up with a single mother who battled depression until the end at the age of 51 years old. I will start with my childhood my parents divorced when I was 8 my mom had battled depression and suicide as long as I could remember, seeing her struggle in and out of hospitals and doctors offices being denied care because she did not have health insurance coverage. She did see a family doctor I felt she never truly cared or listened to my mother’s pain or needs. Dr. Palmer’s idea of treating her was by prescribing medication after medication and sending …show more content…

Two things she taught all three of us girls were to love unconditionally and to put God first, it is He that will see us through all our trials and triumph she would say. Amongst Satan’s many attacks I always admired her faith it was never weakened. I thank her for those two things that’s all we need in life, all of us are all her to love and to be loved no matter the negative affects society has on us or all the trials we are put through. Looking around there is always beauty around us we cannot let the bad things consume our happiness or who we are as individuals, this is something you have to mentally train yourself for believe me it took me 28 years and I am just now realizing it. After seeing the struggles, pain and suffering my mother went through; I always knew I’m going to work in healthcare and make sure that my patients never get treated like she was treated. I knew I was going to care for people and help my patients in every way that I can, making a difference in their …show more content…

Enrolling at a community college I went to school for ten months full time completing my medical assisting diploma at Westwood College with a 4.0 GPA, inducted into the national Dean’s list, and perfect attendance I graduated. Starting out as a phlebotomist at Denver Health Hospital then moved onto medical assisting positions. Currently I hold a position as a lead medical assistant at an internal medicine doctor’s office in Highlands Ranch. I have been at this office for two years I enjoy every day that I go to work. I work with one doctor and two other medical assistants who I can also call my friends, we all three share the duties of front and back office. The duties include EKG, phlebotomy, injections, suture removal, vital statistics, urine dips, INR, assisting in female gynecology exams, phone triage, faxing, medical records, billing, calling in prescriptions, charting. All these duties are way more duties than what the RN for the other doctor that we share office space does on a daily basis. So every day I tell myself why not go to back to school so I can get my BSN and get credit for all my hard work and this is why I am applying to CCU’s BSN

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