Blog # 10

I had planned an event for Dr. Smith to speak at called Prime Timers at Temple Baptist church. Prime Timers is a social group held by the church were a lot of elderly people attend and have different guest speakers, talk about events, and have lunch. Prime Timers is a really cute thing for the elderly community to get out of the house and be social with other elderly couples. Dr. Smith was going to give a speech about head injuries and what it does to the body, how it could affect you, and what you should do if an injury like that were to occur. I believe the speech went very well and the people got really involved in the conversation. I the turn out for this event was pretty good, I would say about 200 people attended. I believe this was a good way to promote Dr. Smith’s name and to get him to know the community a little more. Five of us from Parrish attended the event including Dr. Smith, Leanne from HR, Tara from physical therapy, another woman I’ve never met before, me, and dr. smith. We handed out notepads, pens, questionnaires, and there were door prizes that we brought with were little organizers and such. Everyone attending something like this could not turn away free goodies, who would? Towards the end I felt a little awkward, although I am spiritual in my own way I do not choose to express it to everyone, the singing for hours was a little boring. The part for Parrish went very well and I really think we should use it in the future as an opportunity for more doctors for our facility to get to know the community a little better.

Blog # 9

My career experience with my internship. I attend meetings every week for HMI, as you know. The doctors that I represent are Dr. Allotta (Sports Medicine), Dr. Sonsor (Physiatry), and Dr. Smith (Neurosurgery). I happen to be searching for jobs at PMC were I am taking my internship and came across an Office Manager position for Port St. John facility, which is were I live so I thought that was cool. I clicked on the job to look more into it and it says Muscular Skeletal Program which is another name for Human Motion Institute so I am wandering if it is for the doctors that I represent and see in meetings everyweek. I email HR asking them if it is for Dr. Smith, Dr. Sonsor, or Dr. Smith are the doctors that I will be office manager for and she replied saying that they were. I am completely stoked about this job thinking, “hey maybe I have a chance because I do see them and I do know a little bit more about the muscular skeletal program than other”. I put in my application and brought it up to Gloria to see if there was anything that she could do to help me out. We all started talking at a meeting and she said she would email them putting in a good word for me. I thought that I was in there, it made me think that I could really possibly get this job. Everyone at Parrish was kind of making me happy saying I could still attend meetings and be involved with HMI and that it would be even better because I would know the schedules of the docs and it would help out a lot at meetings. A couple days later I receive an email from Parrish sayin, “Thank you for submitting you’re application for the Office Manager position. Please not the number of factors when considering an application for employment. Due to the number of applications we have receieved we will not be moving forward with your application. Etc.”. This email completely bummed me out. I didn’t really receive any explanation of why my application would not be considered because I think of myself as more than qualified enough for the position. Although I was very upset I considered this a learning experience, something better will come in the future, and I wasn’t ment to have this position. I attended an event a couple days later and Dr. Smith was there and I was telling him how I applied for that position and he said that they were having a really hard time finding someone, I was a little confused by that because the email made it sound like they had numerous people lined up and I wasn’t good enough for the position. That also got me thinking I might email human resources and ask them why I did not qualify for the position but Im not sure if I should be so pushy or if doing that would be a good idea. I think that if anything I got out of this internship is definitely a learning experience of the process you go through trying to do different things at a hospital.

Blog # 8

I arrived for the first meeting of the day (Rehab Meeting) at 8:00 am at the port St. John Parrish facility. Parrish has recently transitioned into a whole new company for rehab care and the new director of rehab was introduced at the meeting, his name was Christopher Mcalpen. I really enjoyed meeting Parrish, he was very down to earth, and seemed to care a lot about his job and what he can do for Parrish. We discussed things that needed to be done with the new rehab team and the first thing discussed was strategic planning, putting together a new business plan for rehab. We discussed new expenses, old expenses, the cost of equipment vs. lost in revenue, etc. We discussed the new equipment that was needed for rehab, what facility it was going to, and the brand or type of equipment needed to be ordered. There is a high need for staff in rehab and needed at minimum is two Physical Therapists. We went over the job description for those, the interview, and hiring process.
The next meeting started at 9:00 am (The Spine Team Meeting) , one of my favorite meetings to attend. We talked about the Life Spine program that we wanted to incorporate in the Human Motion Institute and when we could start the certification for it and when it could be finished. I think the goal that we all set on was July. We went over all of the Community Outreach events coming up. We changed some dates around with them; we decided the Aging Workforce Conference should be pushed to August so that we could incorporate the life spine at the event. We would then do a separate workforce conference at Port Saint John facility in September that would be open to the public. We have an event called Prime Timers coming up on Tuesday, April 13, 2010, that Dr. Smith will be speaking at and we had the slides and conversation to be spoken in line.
I then attended lunch with Gloria and went over the things discussed in the meetings and where and when I would be attending the events. The next important meeting of the day was at 1:00 pm (Physician Referral Source Integration). This meeting is important because we discuss all the events put together for promotion of the physicians and for Parrish in general. The rest of the meetings of the day were a repetition of discussions from the meetings in the morning getting processed throughout the rest of the hospital. The day went pretty well overall and my next meeting with Gloria was at the Prime Timers event on Tuesday.

Blog # 7

A couple different things have happened since the last time I have updated on my internship. I attended a Health Fair at the Great Outdoors; the Great Outdoors is a golf/ retirement community. Parrish Medical Center was set up under a tent promoting our doctors. I don’t think we had a lot of traffic by our tent but its always good to attend events whenever you can to get your name out there. The Health Fair overall was pretty fun. The retirement community that resides in the great outdoors is a really fun and outgoing group of people. They looked like they were having a blast; I only hope to be that happy at that age. We stayed there for a couple hours in the morning and were out of there by noon. The following week we had a PALs (Police Athletic League) Gold Tournament to attend, I had a blast chatting with these people and trying to promote the HMI Program at Parrish. It was me, Gloria, Tara (Physician Liaison), and Tammy (Physical Therapist). We used a white board and were testing the guys grips throughout the day and posting there age and how good there grip was for there age. The results of doing this were amazing! There was an 88 year old man with 10X of a better grip then the younger guys. This was a fun way to get the guys to come over and for us to strike up conversation on who we are and what we do. This past week I met up with Gloria in her office at 8AM we discussed upcoming events and what our discussions would be next week at the meetings and what we needed to do to get some things done. Then Leanne, a woman from HR who helps get our notes and meetings put together, arrived for a meeting with us to go over the notes and discussion for next week as well. We want to start getting The Aging Workforce Conference on a role for July. One of my responsibilities was to get a hold of Alex Gutierrez in the education department to see if we can set a date were all of the conference rooms would be available. After we got all of the notes and discussion figured out for the meetings next week Gloria asked me to work on making a job description for hiring a new physical therapist. I spent the rest of the afternoon researching degrees and certifications needed to be a physical therapist, what the job responsibilities are, and how the therapist should spend its time by percentage for Parrish. I presented the finished job description to Gloria and she said she was very proud of it and we would bring it to the meeting next week to go over it with the physician and critique anything that needed to be changed. The day went by pretty quickly and I am ready for meetings next week to get some things that much closer to being accomplished.

Blog # 5

This week during my internship was a pretty easy going week. The survey that I did a few weeks back, for Human Motion Institute and the Aging Nurse Workforce Conferencee I was planning, is closed and is available for viewing so I got the results together and printed them out to be presented at the next spine meeting. It made me very happy to see that I got results in general and even better to see the results that did get about the meeting. I called Tom Porter to schedule the 20 minute sessions for Dr. Smith and Dr. Sonsor to come speak at the church, he has been a very hard person to get ahold of but it finally got done and is set for the end of April. Other than that I spend the rest of the day researching items that I could get for the conference that I saw from the results on the survey and looked into the giveaways that lots of people would like to see happen. The day went fairly smooth but I have lots coming up next week during UCF's spring break, tons of different meetings and planning on the Parrish Golf Tournament happening the following week, March 20th, which I very exciting to be attending.

Blog # 4

I attended my internship Monday morning bright and early at eight am, like usual. We discussed upcoming events going on with the service line and then Gloria gave me a couple of tasks to do for the rest of the day. The first one was to call the Temple Baptist Church to get a hold of a man named Tom Porter. The church holds events on Saturday night where guest speakers come and speak. Gloria said that Dr. Smith and Dr. Sonsor would each like to attend and be guest speakers. Dr. Sonsor wanted to talk about back pains and Dr. Smith wanted to talk about the surgical intervention with back pains. Gloria wanted me to call and see if we could get a scheduled date somewhere towards the end of April beginning of March. I called the church, but Tom Porter was not there, and the woman on the phone said he wouldn’t be in for a couple more days but she would relay the message. Once I was to get the go ahead from Tom Porter I was to call Dr. Smith and Dr. Sonsors office and schedule the event, but there was nothing else I could do right then for that. Gloria also gave me a business plan to read over and critique, make changes on, give my opinion, etc, anything that I could do to help make the business plan better. I was really nervous about this because I had never done a business plan before. I read the business plan over and over again just trying to understand it. I spent the whole day reading and making changes that I thought were appropriate. I went back to Gloria’s office and she said I could work on it the rest of the day from home, but we discussed The Day of Dance coming up on Saturday and what we needed to do to get ready for it. She asked me to attend a meeting on Wednesday that explained what we needed to do to get ready for the event and she couldn’t make it, so we agreed I would be there Wednesday. The Wednesday meeting ended up getting cancelled so I was to meet with Gloria at the event at 10:30 am on Saturday, it was scheduled to start at eleven and end at three. I was there at 10:30 like she asked at it was absolutely freezing, windy, and cold. It was a horrible day for the event, especially one that had dancers from all over coming to dance in the weather that we had. We set up our HMI booth, Dr. Sonsor (Physiatrist) and Dr. Allota (Sports Medicine) were there as well to help answer any questions that people attending might have. The dancers on stage were awesome until the rain started to pick up! Then a group of girls went on to perform, and they were fairly young, and one of the girls slipped and fell right on her face, she was such a trooper she got right back up and finished the dance before she ran off stage hurt and upset. The rest of that dance company did not want to continue in the weather. The event was pushed up to end at two. Needless to say it was a pretty bad turn out and miserable for me to work, but the dancers that I did see were amazing on stage.

Blog #3

I got to the hospital at 8:00 am, Gloria was in a Rehab meeting, and the meeting was very important and had to do with the transition from the old rehab company to the new one. She met up with me and unlocked her office for me at around 8:30. I was told to use her office to do some research on different event we could do to promote the different service lines. I researched different things we could do and also looked into the day of dance, an event coming up on the 27th. Gloria was in the meeting for a few hours. We met up in the cafeteria for lunch and talked about the ideas that I had. We also discussed the survey, I told her that I made the changes and asked were we should go from here. She said that she wanted to contact someone about the E-weekly that is sent out to all of the Parrish employees. She called her and we emailed her the link to the survey. We discussed the Day of Dance and that there would be a booth set up for the HMI Program and that I could get some hours in that day as well. We discussed things going on and attended a couple meetings and before we knew it the day was over. I met up with Gloria and the Spine Team and told them were we were with the survey and told them I would present them with the results the next time we meet. The meeting went pretty well everything was going on track pretty good. After the meeting Gloria asked me if I would like to be a part of the 60 medical seconds, which is a video that the hospital does, she said I would get to know the marketing and production side of the hospital. I agreed and thought that would be a great idea and I was very interested. She also said that there was a big gold event coming up in March and asked if I would like to attend and help out with it. I agreed and she said we would talk more about it later.