Blog #1

I am currently doing an internship at Parrish Medical Center in Titusville, FL. I am shadowing a woman named Gloria Barone she is the Service Line Coordinator for the hospital. I was very nervous at the beginning of the internship but I now look forward to showing up every Monday and learning new things throughout the week. The service line I chose to be a part of is called Muscuskeletal Program or HMI (Human Motion Institute), this program has to do with the care and support of spine, bone, muscle and joints. There are alot of people that are part of the team that include doctors and administrators. I usually attend meetings in the morning on Mondays with different department heads in the hospital. Gloria set this up to help me get a feel of the different departments and ask any questions that I may have that can help me further my career in the future. I then take the afternoon to work on some task given to me by Gloria. I attend numerous meetings every other Wednesday that pertain to The Human Motion Institute or any of the other service. I enjoy learning more about Gloria’s job every week, she is a very important person, and plays many roles in the hospital. I am currently planning a conference called "The Aging Workforce"; this conference is going to be done to give back to the workers for PMC. It is a good way to give them help with back, muscle, or joint pains and it gives them an opportunity to meet with our doctors and get to know them. It is very good for people to get to know the new doctors we bring into PMC and what they do. Nurses and administrators can use this for personal reasons or it can be a good use for patient referrals. I really enjoy being a part of this team and it is very interesting to me.
I am keeping a log of every meeting I have and anything that I do for this internship. I think this will be very interesting to read at the end of the course and I looking forward to publishing it in my portfolio. I think it will be useful to me if I ever want to look back on my experience at Parrish.
The only thing that I find kind of disappointing is that I really looked forward to hopefully getting some kind of job offer or help getting into an entry level position, but so far from my time being here it seems almost impossible. I think the main reason is because it is such a small community hospital and there isn’t that much available and when a position does become available they want someone very experienced to do the job.
I look forward to seeing what the rest of the semester hold for me and I will be blogging about my experience the whole way through.