My Practicum Experience

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a government-run military veteran benefit system that provides essential financial and medical assistance to veterans and their families that are located all over the world. (www.va.gov) As the country and the military’s needs change, the VA needs to continue to evolve and grow. With this thought in mind, it is necessary to understand how the department is coping with the many different challenges that they are currently facing to effectively address the current issues and policy pitfalls. The most critical issues presently facing the VA, is the concern over long increasing wait-times and backlogs for services, which have emerged since 9/11 and are primarily the result of the growing

The practicum experience is at Communities at Indiana Haven. It is mainly a long-term home facility. It has three units: rehabilitation unit, Alzheimer unit, and resident long-term home unit. Staff enter each unit using their cards and they have to make sure that each door is closed behind them. For the three units, there are two RNs working during the day-shifts, while only one RN working at the night-shifts. Also during the day there are six LPNs and nine nursing assistants. At night, there are four LPNs and five nursing assistants. Moreover, to be admitted to this community, patients have to meet certain criteria. For example, Indiana Haven does not accept patients who need tracheostomy care or nasogastric tubes because of the decrease number

Please explain how your past personal and professional experience make you a quality candidate for the position for which you are applying.

I just want to let you know that I have not been granted access to you computer system yet. According to STEP 5, I am supposed to receive an email from your MCIT department trough an umich.edu account. However, I don’t have an umich.edu account. Also, I have not received a signed ID Request Form for a MCard ID badge.

An experience that has greatly influenced my understanding of the world has been my participation in Florida Atlantic University’s Pine Jog Fellowship. The Pine Jog Fellowship is a three-semester program that focuses on environmental improvement and education. In the Pine Jog Fellowship I have had the opportunity to develop my own environmental service projects that would benefit my community. During one semester of my fellowship, I coordinated beach clean-ups for Lake Worth Beach. I recruited over sixty people and collectively, we recycled and threw away over one hundred pounds of trash off of Lake Worth Beach. I also spoke to local fishermen and educated them on the dangers of throwing monofilament fishing line into the ocean. During the

Coming into my second year of high school I was so tired the first day of school not wanting to get up just wanting to sleep forever and not having to worry about school. Unfortunately living in a Mexican household that was not an option. So forcing myself out of bed and heading to school I could say I was productive over the summer. When Mr. Jarashow asked me what I had done over my summer I told him I finished all my community services hours. This helped me grow as a global citizen by taking action because I devoted my time to helping out at my local food bank (valley food bank) by helping hand out food to those who needed it, during my time at the food bank I meet a lot of new people. They shared their reason of being there and some valuable

I feel this statement to be very spot-on. Summer was the time of the year when I sat down with a notepad and tried to figure out what I did wrong and the things I could have handled better. I went back to school in September a little bit wiser. I feel that this self-evaluation played a major role in shaping me into the person I am today.

As the story opens, you meet a couple (age unknown) sitting at a train station somewhere in northern Spain awaiting a train that is heading to Madrid. From the outside looking in, the couple just looks like your ordinary couple waiting for a train, but there is an underlying problem that no one else knows about. At line 42 (Hemingway, p.116) the reader get their first glance at what the potential problem is, when the man says, “It’s really an awfully simple operation” (Hemingway p.116). This leads the reader to believe that this is about abortion, but the story does not tell you that. My argument is, what about the feelings of the girl? Let’s not focus so much on the operation and let us focus in on the feelings of the girl. The girl (Jig)

First of all, I would like to say plan ahead. so, you can manage your time and you do not put yourself in overwhelming situations. I had a Circumstances that force me to stop going to school for a month, and that put me in stress because I try to complete the reminder hours in these upcoming two weeks. The second things, take an advantage of bing with an expert team. the teacher has 21 years experiences in the education field. I observe her during her interaction with children and other adults. I really learn a lot from her. It is a good opportunity for me. She is really helpful. She gave me an advice when I need it, answer my questions,

I have been fortunate enough to have a variety of supervisors in my practicum placements. I had several female supervisors and one male supervisor who have all contributed to my training. The books and discussions in class brought up a discussion that I have never thought about before, which was the gender of the supervisor. However, one thing that I could say with certainty is that gender does play a role in the way supervisors conceptualize things. At my practicum there are gender misunderstanding that occur. The questions that are asked to me are different and more geared towards possible sexual countertransference, which makes me feel like I am treated with “kid gloves”. From my point of view there is a gender misunderstanding because

Last semester as part of my Service Learning requirement I worked with a few other students on the topic of sustainability. We met with Teresa Sidwell from the Benton County Environment Division and she spoke with us about how to be more sustainable. We volunteered in the community by cleaning roads and working at a recycling event in Benton County.

My personal journey in this practicum experience has been an eventful one. Once I started to get comfortable and had things down pact, it is all done with. It began with the curriculum writing project in which we were instructed to plan lessons for students that we did not have any background information on such as, prior knowledge on content or their abilities and it was rather challenging. It felt as if I was never done writing the CWP. The moment I thought that I was done writing the CWP, I had to make further changes. In the end, I learned to appreciate the CWP. Once I was in the classroom and started interacting with the students, I realized that my CWP was not developmentally appropriate for my targeted audience and the process of writing the CWP all started to make

The IR stated that the unit's field experience requirements are sequenced to align with PDE recommendations. There are four stages of field experience:

“O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave,” This is the last sentence of the National Anthem. The National Anthem is played before every game, before every race to remind us why we are able to sit there, why we are able watch these activities. The National Anthem is played so as a country we feel as if we are all one, all standing for the same thing.

American society values higher education. College provides many opportunities for developing a variety of social networks, both formal and informal. Obtaining a college degree will be such a valuable and