Personal Narrative: Serving As A Volunteer At Baptist Medical Center

While volunteering, I checked in patients, helped organize charts, and worked as a receptionist. This allowed me to serve the underserved population and work with a diverse group of professionals. It was inspiring to volunteer at the clinic because I witnessed esteemed professionals sacrifice their time to volunteer at a free clinic in order to help the community flourish. This inspires me to follow in their footsteps when I become a physician. I volunteered at the community clinic my freshman year; unfortunately, I became extremely busy with course work that I had to stop. However, I have registered to volunteer starting August and I plan to continue working throughout my senior year.

As a recent graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and a new Research Technician at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, becoming more familiar with different healthcare settings and helping others in doing so have always been of my interest. From my experience of volunteering as a piano teacher for inner-city children in Baltimore, I have learnt that even a small commitment and emotional support can make a big difference in the daily lives and the happiness of those in need. I have briefly familiarized myself to the hospital environment by shadowing physicians and conducting biomedical research but have yet to translate my volunteering experiences and the lessons learnt from them to the healthcare setting. I am a friendly, optimistic,

My nature to serve attracts me to the Houston Methodist Summer Teen Volunteer Program. My goals are to gain experience and knowledge about careers in medicine, and to give back to the community. I would like to learn a lot about how people live by the ways they get hurt or how they deal with being sick. It’s a good study of human behavior because you see people at their highest and lowest extremes of emotion. To further my goal of pursuing a career in medicine, it is important for me to get hands on experience of serving people and executing work in a responsible manner. When a person donates their time, they give hope to someone who needs it. I feel that I will be also benefited because I get to see how my contribution has made a difference.

The experience taught me to work hard to achieve my goal of becoming a doctor and helping as many people as I can. It taught me not to waste my time. All of my dedication has pushed me to be the best person I can be so in the future I can feel confident about all of my choices. Volunteering at Children’s Hospital offered me an experience that pushed me to strive for no less than excellence. By volunteering, I watched my dreams and ambitions get closer, and although the process is a slow and difficult one, every second of it was worth it because I was able to watch everything I value become

Volunteering at Texas Health Presbyterian Plano is my way of giving back to the community while developing critical social skills, and gaining important medical field exposure along the way. It’s an opportunity to change a person’s life, including my own. I volunteered at two hospitals last summer and I’m well acquainted with what volunteering entails and would more than love to do it again. Through this hospital volunteer program, I hope to discover my own passions and talents, while also developing skills that I will utilize throughout my entire high school and college experience.

In addition, I come from a disadvantaged area with a shortage of physicians. I know from experience the difficulty in having healthcare access from these areas. I have volunteered in nursing homes and free clinics in these areas and I thoroughly have felt very satisfied and accomplished during my time there.

Today was my first day to volunteer at Hamtramck Medical Center. I spent the first forty minutes with Elia. She introduced me to other nurses, also, she showed me everything in Hamtramck Medical Center including, patients’ rooms, lab, waiting rooms, and doctors’ offices. After that, she read me the instructions, one of the instructions is to treat the patients kindly, and everything happens in Hamtramck Medical Center stay there. Lastly, Elia introduced me to my supervisor.

This summer has by far been the most meaningful due to my internship at the Lloyd Moss Free Clinic. I had a wonderful opportunity to use my summer before college to explore healthcare professions and learn how a free clinic functions. Throughout my experience, I was exposed to many different professions within a clinic. My daily task consists of a wide variety of activities. I would begin by sorting and filing patient document, gathering charts for upcoming appointments, and helping the clinical operations director with projects regarding referrals. Then, I would continue my day at the call center. While assisting at the call center, I was able to learn what exactly each department handles at the clinic and I was exposed to a variety of terms

By volunteering at a hospital, one can make up their mind on whether to be a doctor or to give up on that fantasy. Allowing our children to have options like these readily available will benefit the community and the child in the end, whether it’s on a college resume or when making life altering

Since March 2015, I volunteer weekly at Memorial Hospital West, where I assist in both patient and nursing staff needs. As a volunteer, I serve as a reception area greeter while giving out general information to visitors and answering phones. I also assist in patient discharge, answering patient call buttons, distribution of meals and water, as well as running errands for the nursing staff which include the pharmacy, lab, and cafeteria. I have also sporadically volunteered at Feeding South Florida, a hunger relief food bank. I assisted in the inspecting, sorting, and organizing of donated can goods which are then distributed to food pantries and shelters. The last two years with the assistance of my mother I have raised money towards the Leukemia

For my project I have been volunteering at Rogue Regional Medical Center. I started volunteering at the hospital in July, I now am still working to complete all of my hours. My previous hours were spent with gaining training so I could be successful in my volunteering. Also I worked with employees of the hospital to learn the lay out of the hospital. My project has had bumps along the way but I have worked them out and I’m now getting close to finishing my hours.

I volunteer at Wagner Pharmacy, which is located in an underserved community. I help to improve patient adherence through medication education and Medication Therapy Management programs. I also perform hypertension screenings and assist the pharmacist in preparing patient assessment forms to furnish hormonal contraceptives, Naloxone and smoking cessation therapies. I will bring my unique pharmacy experiences to UCSD and become an exceptional healthcare provider.

I was truly culture shocked as a freshman at one of the best colleges in the state of Arkansas but was able to flourish and quickly adapt to the fast-paced lifestyle of a college campus. Since 2006, I have done my best to extend my educational and pre-professional experiences in clinical settings through shadowing and volunteer work. I had the opportunity to volunteer at Mercy Medical Center in Fort Smith, Arkansas during my junior year of high school and continued with the same type of work as a freshman at Conway Regional Medical Center in Conway, Arkansas. I value these volunteer experiences most because of the type of work I was tasked with. I became educated in the fundamentals of patient care and administrative work and came to realize that every staff member of a hospital acts like both a cheerleader and a racecar driver. They must be optimistic, flexible, and proactive with each other and with patients. Without one team member, the rest of the team lacks and must work much harder to reach certain goals and tasks. Ultimately, these life-changing sports shaped my future career as a physician by providing me with the mental and emotional qualities necessary for a successful career in medicine. The confidence I have in one day displaying a nearly seamless transition into the medical field can be traced back to the strong educational roots I established while at Hendrix

I've had several volunteer positions that have taught me a number of skills and exposed me to a variety of new experiences. Throughout high school, I volunteered at the hospital near my house, and while I was there, I held various positions. My first position was as the radiologist's assistant. As her assistant, I did secretarial assignments, like filing papers and escorting patients to the correct locations. My other position at the hospital was working the front desk. There, I delivered newspapers and coffee throughout the hospital, answered the phone, and escorted patients to various locations. Working at my local hospital, I not only learned how a hospital runs on the inside, but I also learned how to communicate more effectively with people that I just met and try and make them feel

Dancing to an offbeat tune radiating from a time washed jukebox delivered exclusively to the broken front door of the local Salvation Army Thrift Store while simultaneously stocking clothes racks, cleaning, and learning from the manager; a splendid second home so to speak. But by mere happenstance, I strolled in, fell for the environment, and never left because there is a unique sense of helping others straight from the get–go. So much so that even strangers that would visit the store took notice of the patience, generosity, and kindness that developed after the whole experience. After months of dedicating an hour or so after school, I was rewarded humbly with a velvet-red shirt with a crest of the Salvation Army logo, a shirt I still proudly wear on occasion. Although many things have a changed immensely from junior year when I first began to volunteer, many will things will continue change, however, the impact of volunteering on me will never cease