Technologist Career Goals

As a young child, I was always drawn towards the field of health care. I remember reading about the many options that are held within it and wondering what path it would lead me on. Neonatal nursing was something that always came into my mind, but it was often pushed to the side by people and teachers who thought I should become a pediatrician instead. This became a real struggle for me, but as I grew up and began researching and exploring the health care field I came to a decision for myself. I came to the realization that everyone was wrong. I didn’t want to be a doctor at all. This sudden burst of independence from what everyone else wanted was the first step to reaching my end goal. Along with this, an accelerated education, volunteer

Right after high school, I completed my certification of nursing aide. This allowed me to venture into the medical field early on and attain experience. I applied at Creekside Convalescent Hospital and became a well oiled nursing aide machine. After recognition from upper management I transitioned into a leadership role with included overseeing a restorative care program. This included overseeing and redeveloping a not so well structured restorative care program. I was in charge of setting the schedule, dealing with issues among employees,improving collaboration, improving work conditions, re-training the new curriculum of the program to the employees, and changing their way of charting . After making a lot of changes to the program, some employees quit and some stayed. After I while ,with my ideas and with the help of my supervisor we have improved our restorative care program drastically.In the beginning, we had a chaotic program without order and now, we still have some minor issues to work out, but it has improved. Here are one-two examples that I chose to demonstrate how my leadership experience has influenced my position and others.After taking over the schedule I decided to change the schedule to

While interning in the Children's Clinic, I had the incredible opportunity to go and visit the NICU. This program had also introduced me how to write a medical research paper. Mini med school gave me a lot of informative information everyday by health professions which they discussed about the ongoing medical issues and other problems like drug use and criminal issues our community is facing. I have also taken classes in High School such as Ap Biology, Ap chemistry, and AP Psychology that exposes me to everyday medical terminology that health professionals use. Information offered by these classes made it easier to communicate and understand doctors.I have taken every opportunity to better prepare myself to the challenges of the medical field. During the internship, I mainly focused on the nursing branch, I shadowed nurse practitioners and registered nurses in action and how they handled medical issues and was also given the opportunity to learn and ask about their challenges in nursing school and how they had overcome it. I was able to learn about the responsibilities and special skills required to be a nurse and received advices from the nurses on how to be successful in nursing school. I have also been self studying Human Physiology and Anatomy. Its the medical field that best describes me. I love to give back to my

My second clinical day at Mercy Defiance Hospital, progressive care unit, was overwhelming but rewarding and very educational. Through the 8 hours I was there, I learned a lot. I engaged myself in many self-directing learning practices to futher promote my professional growth. My first time interaccting with my patient,I was joined with my clinical instructor. While in the room, I got to listen to to my patients heart, lungs, and bowel sounds. I was able to see and examine the patients ostomy bag, as well as help them to the bathroom. There were ways that I can improve my professional growth, suchas,having the confidence to not second guess my self about things to do in assessments. For example, I know how to assess the lungs, I should not second guess where to listen for the sounds. One of my goals for next week dealing with professional growth would be to have the confidence to know what I have learned and use it. My second one being to go into the room with a confident attitude and believe in myself.

Time flows like a river and you find yourself not thinking the way you used to as a child. As I grew older, my dreams and goals changed as well as my mindset on how to achieve those aspirations. Mercyhurst University’s Public Health Program is the main step toward helping me achieve my career goal of becoming a Registered Health Information Technician. I’d like to define success as many achievements and accomplishments, as well as the coming of knowledge for that which was unknown to one’s self. Therefore, there should never be an ending to a success story. It was when I graduated as a medical assistant that sparked the realization to what field I was most interested in.

While the idea of being a physician assistant or a physical therapist isn’t a bad one at all, I always felt that somehow, something was always missing. I was missing an objective. I was missing what I really wanted to do as a physician assistant. The practice of curing and assisting people without exposing how to prevent future outcomes of illnesses and the spread of diseases to them didn’t really sit well with me at all. I began to doubt my potential future career choice as a physician assistant in general. They say variety is the spice of life; although I knew and loved the knowledge of assisting a medical physician, it was the serious lack of variety within that specific field and the limited options of growth that gave me heavy thoughts day in and day out. I wanted a career that would enable me to help a large amount of people, help place a heavy emphasis on prevention and care, and also challenge me continually to motivate and improve myself. Seeing that I no longer had an interest in being a physician assistant as I initially intended, my thoughts and passion quickly gravitated towards the area of public health, particularly

The work history that has provided me with a base of knowledge or experience with this leadership competency includes six months of working in a pediatric medical and counseling practice in the main role of office manager. Because this was a new practice I wore many different hats throughout the day along with being the Office Manager I also filled in as a Pediatric Medical Assistant, Secretary and Janitor. Working in all these positions allowed me to learn the responsibilities involved with these jobs. I saw to both clerical and clinical duties including, billing, insurance, collecting lab samples, recorded vital signs, maintained exam rooms, kept up-to-date records of narcotic samples, and kept temperature records necessary to maintain viability of vaccines. I also needed to know and understand the basics of insurance practices, know the list of covered and not covered medical and counseling procedures, as well as know and understand the HIPPA laws, maintain patient medical files and keep them private, and

Delos M. Cosgrove states, “I think it’s important to try and leave the world a better place than you found it.” He accomplishes his dreams by the struggles he faced through his life. He always wanted to be a surgeon, but through persistence the path he was on took a turn and opened up new opportunities. These opportunities allowed him to explore new possibilities of healthcare. In some ways, I can pertain to what he experienced. Helping others has always been a passion of mine. Not only do I love helping people, but I love the idea of assisting others in a healthcare profession and I hope to do this in the future. There were many ups and downs during my high school career;however, like Mr. Cosgrove I am very persistent. He states, “a lot of

I realized that I have very strong leadership skills and qualities. Some of these leadership qualities include the confidence I portray to the people I lead and the confidence and reassurance I instill in them. Going alongside this quality is my ability to create personal connections with various people which helps me gain their trust which in turn allows them to open up to me giving me a chance to help them better. An additional leadership quality would be my ability to think on my feet in a stressful and time sensitive situation and come up with a quick solution. Having my strengths be leadership qualities will help me in my career of being a physical therapist because it will give me the respect and authority from my patients along with making sure all of my patients feel safe and happy. This is important in a physical therapist because when a patient goes to see a physical therapist they will be more inclined to listen to the physical therapist’s advice if the physical therapist gives that advisement in a calm and confident tone which will reassure the patient that the physical therapist knows what he/she is doing. In contrast, if the physical therapist shows a lack of confidence and talks in a faltering tone, then the patients will be wearisome in the advice they were given and be less likely to follow them. A similar concept for being able to make personal connections with the patients because the ability to make personal connections with my patients will make them feel more comfortable and give them the ability to be able to share with me stories and such so that they will be more honest when I ask them questions about diets and if they have been following the suggested regimen. Having these leadership skills as my strength is very reassuring to me because I was able to see that physical therapy was

Intro to Health Occupations opened my eyes to the many, many amazing healthcare career choices that there are. After completing a two week long career project, I was certain that my answer to the question was, “I want to be a physician’s assistant!” I have seen how much healthcare workers have positively impacted people, and that also really helped me to figure out “what I want to be when I grow up.”

I am an officer, Vice President of Finance, of a nationally recognized organization; FCCLA, Family Career and Community Leaders of America. The skills i learned and will soon learn to a more profound extent would be to be more independent, time management, and also being in proper charge of people when

Through my prior experiences, I have learned a large variety of skills, some of which include attention to detail, communication skills, and leadership. At UCSD Movement Disorders Center I was exposed to patient paperwork with sensitive information. Editing patient videos, I learned to recognized and distinguish small nuances in similar neurodegenerative diseases. I quickly learned the basics of the tests for neurodegenerative tests and why they do those tests. While the work was repetitive, I could develop ways to efficiently move through the work with precision. At UCSD I was learned how to speak up if I was unsure about what I was looking at, and by communicating with my supervisor in this way I learned much more than if I had stayed

I was not exposed to the health care settings very much as a child. I didn’t even think about the possibility of working in a medical setting. I graduated from the U of MN with a bachelor’s in a liberal arts degree and decided I’d work my way up the corporate ladder. That proved to be unfulfilling.

Every healthcare leader must possess these skills to achieve lasting change (Verdon, 2015). If your intention is to make a difference in healthcare and you feel you already have the soft skills discussed, then you should continue to refine them as well as work on other skills needed to be successful in your career. There will always be soft skills to learn or sharpen no matter what career you choose. To truly know ourselves, we must become aware of our blind spots, those situations we don’t handle as well as we should for optimal business performance (Wheeler,

Five years has passed since I graduated from GMU College of Science with Medical Technology bachelor degree, right after I graduated I was recruited by Quest Diagnostics to join their Flow Cytometry department as Medical Technologist II. My daily tasks were; preparing and analyzing samples to test lymphocyte subsets surface markers to monitor HIV+ Patients, HLA B27 antigen, leukemia/ lymphoma, and lime disease, I also ran miscellaneous surface markers using flow cytometry methodology. I routinely performed stem cell viability assays to assist in stem cells transplant procedure. Additionally, I maintained all reagents and test kits to comply with all quality assurance procedures as well as regulations such as CAP, CLIA, NAACLS, and FDA. I also conducted daily operation which includes, calibration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of FACS Sample Prep Assistant (SPA III), FACS Lyse Wash Assistant, FACSCanto, and FACSCanto II by Becton Dickinson Biosciences.