Final Reflection

Internship is over and looking back at my goals, I did achieved them :) I worked at the medical record department of NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases for the past twelve weeks. There they deal mostly with paper because they have to keep the patients records secure and confidential. I was able to make their work a little smoother by filing those records and by creating new medical folder. Sometimes I look up for chart or drop chart at specific center of the hospital. I was around adult so I needed to be on my best behavior. They were very nice to me, and always giving me good advice. Even though I was always tired at the end of each day but it was a good experience working in the hospital. The only thing that I regret is not assisting the surgery. I will recommend this site to futur intern.There isn't difficult work to do or inappropriate. You just have to be on time,be respectful, ask question if you don't understand something and do the work as they taught you.

Interview with Schlette

Schlette Monique King is from Brooklyn New york. She went to Brooklyn College for two years.She did not graduate because she got pregnant,but her desire is to go back to school. She attended a trade school for Medical Administration at the Chubb Institute. Schlette wanted to learn the administration part of the health care. She became interested after working in an Ambulatory department for six years. She been in the hospital for 10 years and in her current department for 11 months .Her job title is Health Information Management Associate.

Schlette's Duties

• Securing patient information


• Assembling


• Chart retrieval


• Use different computer systems to search and store information.

So far,the challenges has been to gain knowledge of the new and upcoming system said Schlette.To her the best part of her job is that she is able to learn new things and grow. The only thing she would change is the salary and maybe a few co-workers .Before working at medical recordcenter,she worked in the ambulatory surgery department as a clerk.She worked there for six years.Schlette said she does enjoy her work but would like to open her own business one day and see herself in a management position.With me being in Medical Record,I helped her day to flow a little more smoothly and caused her to accomplish more in her work day. Some pieces of advice that Schlette gave me was to work hard, stay focuse,go to college and obtain all the knowledge and DON'T GET PREGNANT early because it would change your life somehow .

Midpoint Reflection

At first I thought I was going to be working with little children but I am at the medical record department. Internship have not really change. I am now familiar with everything because I do the same thing over and over. Something that is different at the workplace from school is that, at the hospital ID needs to be easily observable in a area above the waist and people are dressed professionally.But in both, hospital and school you socialise with other. I don't really learned new skills, just that some day I try to do the work a little bit faster because I don't like starting with something that I left the day before. I am not a talkative person. When I enter the room I say hi to everyone and I get busy. If I don't understand something I ask the person to repeat himself or if I don't have anything to do I don't just sit there. I always ask for something that need to be done. There isn't any challenges, just that I'm really tired after internship and feel like sleeping but I have to do my homework. Dealing with internship and school at the same time is overwealming . Too much to think of, to much to handle.There are three more weeks until internship is over. I would like to complete all my hours,I don't want any problems that will make me fail the class. During these day I learned a lot about New York City. Transportation can be one of the example. I also meet different faces in the street, people that looks weird to me, normal people, old people young people...New York is one of the busy city that exist on earth,it is a big urban area.

New vocabulary word that I learned

Pathology: The scientific study of the nature of disease and its cause.
This word was in capital letters,writing on top of a folder with patient medical record.

Eligibility: Qualified or entitled to be chosen
I saw this word on a list that was on the wall, I think it was some paper with bunch of rules.

Cumulative: Increasing or enlarging by successive addition
One of the many word that is on patient medical record.

Anticoagulant: A substance that prevents the clotting of blood.
A little piece of paper that was attached on a patient medical record.

Neurology: The science of the nerves and the nervous system.
This word was on top of a folder that contain patient medical record.

Orthopaedic: The branch of surgery broady concerned with the skeletal system (bones)
This word was the title for a folder

Fourth week =[

Things are not working out well for me. I have not been to my internship site on the 4th week. At the hospital they said I can't keep coming in without an ID. In order to get it, I need to complete my medical clearance and obtain results of PPD reading .

Starting internship

On the first week when every other kids started I did not get to go to my internship site because my mentor was not ready for me she was out of town.Instead I did not want to be behind so I make up some hour working at school. I actually went to my intrnship site Tuesday march 3, 2009. I work at N.Y.U Hospital for Joint Diseases in 301 East 17th Street, New York NY 10 003. I work from 1 to 5 and what I do is filing the medical record of the patient. I arranged them in order by looking at the last two number of the MR# starting from 00 to 99. It's not difficult but I get tired, my back , legs and shoulder hurts.When I seat to much and decide to stand for a little while now my legs began to hurt. All in all, the people are really nice and they threat me with respect... :-)