10/26 Assignment

My name is Madison, and I am a Senior at West Hall High School fully enrolled in the International Baccalaureate Program. Aside from studying hard and earning good grades, I played Varsity softball for two years and, at the end of this school year, I will have played golf for two years. I am the National Beta Club Historian for West Hall and I am a member of the National Honor Society as well as the Spanish National Honor Society. In addition, I participate in the Honors Mentorship Program, through which, I have the opportunity to shadow and learn from an Emergency Room nurse at Northeast Georgia Medical Center whose name is Mr. Julio Bimbela. I chose to shadow in the Emergency Room because I feel as though becoming a nurse could be my calling in life, and there is no better place--in my opinion--where I can learn about what nurses do for a living. Next year, I plan to attend a four-year university and earn a bachelor's degree in nursing and go on to either become a nurse practitioner or a nurse anesthetist. My top choices for college right now are Mercer, where I was recently notified that I have been accepted and offered a yearly $18,000 academic scholarship, and Georgia College & State University. Because of the Honors Mentorship Program, I have a better understanding of nursing and am able to further comprehend what I want to study in college.

10/19 Assignment

How has your perception of the internship/organization changed since you started the internship?

I now realize the amount of time that goes into the actual paperwork in nursing. You have to record all kinds of things about the patient, and a lot of the time, the nurses have to take some time to sit down and record this information.


What is surprising you about this internship?

The surprising thing about this internship is how many different career possibilities exist in the Emergency Room. Aside from those who work physically with the patients (nurses), prescribes medicine and treatment (doctors), physician's assistants, nurse practitioners, there are those who handle the financial situations and management.


What have you learned from the routine or boring parts of the internship?

The boring parts of the internship include sitting by Mr. Julio while he completes the necessary paperwork. During this time, I usually write out my hours sheet for the week. 

10/05 Assignment

"You will be completing Step 5 in the process…
5. Reflection

• How does the book or article fit into your potential research? What does it add to your paper or ideas? 
• Was the source helpful to you? Does the source relate to your potential topic? 
• How and where can you use this source in your potential research project? 
• Make as many notes as you can so that you can come back to the source much later in the process without having to reread the document in its entirety."

My source fits into my potential research because it explains what life is like for those who work in the Emergency Room. It adds to my paper because it provides a stated perspective of what my mentorship is like and what my possible future career will be like.
The source was helpful to me because it put words to what I experience at my mentorship. It is important to my potential topic because it explains one specific medical setting.
I can use this particular source when explaining this setting: the E.R. I can explain what it is like to work/intern there and all of the different professions/titles that work there.