Pediatric Clinic Accomplishment

Wide reaching, nurses significantly outnumbered physicians as providers of health care often having utmost vast reach remoteness to underserved communities. Having personally lived in one of the underserved communities in my hometown Western Africa before moving to the United States of America and my life calling to be a nurse from a young age with the deep desire to make a difference. I plan to contribute and continue to contribute immensely to the underserved communities by delivering quality health care to remote regions around the world. I do volunteer service at several clinics in the Atlanta area with many well-known Emory physicians that care for homeless and underserved populations, these volunteer experiences provide me with opportunities and fulfillment to develop added headship skill and experience to meet my daily patients, needs.

Before 2012 El Paso, TX never had a children’s hospital. In fact it was the largest metropolis city that did have a pediatric hospital according to (El Paso Childrens Hospital, 2016). El Paso Children’s Hospital serves a dramatically underserved pediatric region where there are approximately 222,000 children that are enrolled with Medicaid in 2011. This statistic demonstrates the magnitude of having a skilled specialty of pediatric services.

Pursing a career as a medical doctor is an opportunity for me to mentor youth in underserved populations. As a child, I was raised in the low income, urban community of Roxbury, MA. Although not as notorious today, the neighborhood had garnered negative attention for its high crime rates. My mother emigrated from Haiti and raised me as a single parent. Due to our financial circumstance, Roxbury became our permanent residence. I have always felt there was something lacking in Roxbury in comparison to other towns I visited. My teenage years were largely spent in the suburban town of Stoneham where I attended high school. There was a literal difference in air quality and a psychology contrast in future prospects. While native students of

I have been given many opportunities to help others and make an impact in Johnson City through organizations like the Family Medicine Interest Group at ETSU, serving as the coordinator for student involvement in free clinics. I have also been able to make an impact through medicine in Cleveland, TN by way of the Good Samaritan Clinic. This is a free clinic in downtown Cleveland that I have been volunteering at for the past seven years. I have also been directly involved in the start-up of the Just Care clinic in Mountain City, TN, a medical student ran free clinic in rural Appalachia. I was also been able to spend time in rural Guatemala with a medical team from my undergraduate university helping diagnose, treat, and care for patients whom receive little to no regular healthcare. From my own first hand experiences in both Guatemala and my time spent in the Just Care and Good Samaritan Clinics, I have seen the impact that an inadequate health care system can have on a population. I hope to use my medical and public health training in areas that do not have adequate access to health

Step 1: Staff area hospitals and doctors’ offices with medical professionals who look like the people in the community they are serving. This will begin to build the first bridge of trust, not only that but when kids grow up surrounded by people of

The Children’s Hospital of Central California (CHCC) is one of the nation’s largest pediatric hospitals; CCHC not only provides great quality healthcare for pediatrics but also caters and cares for children from pre-birth all the way until their young adulthood stage of life. CHCC is a nonprofit healthcare network that specializes in medical and surgical services to help care for common to rare health conditions. Children’s Hospital provides healthcare services in over forty different types medical services. Services can include from Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Emergency Room (ER) to Cardiology. The department that will be observed and discussed is the social services department

Cancer, the leading cause of death by disease past infancy among children in the United States, causes an estimate of 15,780 children to be diagnosed with the disease and of that same number, 1,960 will die from the disease in the United States (Cancer in Children and Adolescents ). A variety of cancerous diseases contributes to causes which can end a child's life as soon as it appeared. A leading charity organization, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, has helped push the overall cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% in the last 50 years since it first opened. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, a charity centered around helping people, is a non-profit charity that you should donate to because

PER REPORTER: Kristen said a report was made on Sonny by another registered nurse (Becca) who also works for the Pediatric Clinic on January 5, 2018. Kristen said she tried calling to follow up on the report which was made by Becca by called CPS in Forrest County. However, Kristen said there were no Social Workers there for her to speak with regarding the report. Kristen said Sonny was scheduled to come into the clinic on yesterday January 15, 2018 to have his weight checked. Kristen said Sonny has poor weight gain due to his mother not waking up in the middle of the night to feed him. Kristen said the child’s mother was a no show for the child’s appointment on yesterday. Kristen also said there is history documented in the family’s hospital

seph, I personally don’t have children yet but I think that responding to a pediatric patient will be the hardest call behind responding to family and friends. Going back to my first year of being a lifeguard, there was a child that was left unattended by his parents and he injured himself. immediately after he injured himself we activated our emergency action plan and I responded and assisted with back boarding the child, just as we were putting on the last strap the child’s mother came up from behind and started yelling and attacking the lifeguards thinking we were injuring her child. After talking with the women she demanded that we release her child even with the possibly of major head trauma, so we had her sign the paper work and released

This service learning course has provided me with an insight to core values and characteristics that pharmacists need to possess to become true health care providers. I volunteered at the St. Louis Crisis Nursery this semester for my community outreach portion. My first trips to the Crisis Nursery were filled with initial prejudices and thoughts about how horrible this situation this was going to be. I remember being terrified to get out of my car to walk up to the building, let alone actually interact with these children and parents. The small town I am from, was not socially or ethnically diverse. I also attended a private school where many people we well off financially and I stayed friends with many of these people when I attended High School. I was reluctant to listen to the parent’s stories or honestly, feel any sense of compassion or empathy for them. I felt that they likely put themselves into the situation and that they could get out of it on their own too. However, as I continued to attend volunteering at the nursery, my outlook changed drastically. I actively engaged with the children and formed relationships within the small amount of time I was there. I talked to the parents and began to feel sorry for the situations they were put into. I actually looked forward to my weekly visits to either play outside, read to, or even be a jungle gym for the children. Empathy is something that cannot be taught, but it can be something one can learn- which is exactly my

Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters (CHKD) is a non-profit Pediatric Hospital that serves the region of Southeastern Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina. CHKD’s mission, focus, and priority is to assist children and to set the regional standard for healthcare excellence. CHKD is home to many specialties for children as well as adults. One of those specialties and the focus of this project is the heart clinic. As part of their mission, the heart center at CHKD is committed to providing compassionate, dedicated and the highest quality cardiovascular care for both children and adults. They are devoted to achieving the best possible outcomes for their patients and families. From their outpatient clinics to their inpatient services

HSC Pediatric Center is my current employer. As previously alluded, the majority of the patients served by HSC Pediatric Center are minorities, mainly African Americans and Hispanics. Most of these African American s and Hispanics are in need of assistance to maneuver through the various aspects of the healthcare system such as the appropriate insurance coverage ensuring these individuals get the best of the available healthcare services. A patient navigation tool will be a tremendous asset to these individuals, thereby facilitating the delivery of the best healthcare services to these individuals. My project will identify and expand on the challenges these African Americans and Hispanics face in accessing certain services like developing a navigation tool geared at addressing these issues and implement it. The challenges most of these African

I would like to expand on my current position as a coordinator of the Four County SART (sexual assault response team) program. This is a brand-new program located in North West (NW) Ohio. Right now, we can only do acute exams with evidence collection for pediatric sexual assault, that is within 72 hours’ range. I would like to be able to provide non-acute exams for the pediatric population at our clinic.

I have experience working with immigrants from South America and Morocco when I was in Spain. During a summer, I volunteered in an extracurricular program designed to teach Spanish and help children with school activities. Moreover, while working in Nebraska I worked with underserved families whose children had been removed and with teenagers from different backgrounds who had committed sexual offenses (many of these patients were Hispanics). Working as a Family Support Specialist helped me to be more communicative and efficient as a team worker since I needed to work along with different professionals. Also, I learned how to be more persuasive and problem-solving oriented, especially when organizing team meetings within parents, foster families, and case workers with the purpose of achieving family reunification. I improved my writing skills when writing reports, paying special attention to details when supervising visits and interactions within parents and their kids. I also became more patient and understanding when providing emotional support and care to the children that have been removed from their homes. Working as a Youth Treatment Specialist at Child Guidance Center and Volunteering at Lincoln Regional Center - Whitehall Campus provided me with different skills that are useful when working with children and youth as well as with their families, such as teaching skills, having more tact, being able to communicate effectively as well as improving my interpersonal skills. I gained experience working with people from different backgrounds who were reticent to receive help, and I learned how to connect them with a variety of public resources available in Lincoln (such as shelters, attorneys, second-hand shops, etc.). In addition, as my undergraduate Senior Research Project I

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