Job Shadowing

We had a day for all the juniors to job shadow some place that they were interested in going into. I found out that all the juniors got to do this and that we got to be excused from school to do it so I was very happy. Not only did I get to miss a full day of school on the week before spring break, but I also got to learn very valuable lessons and experience about the career path that I was interested into going in. The first step to getting this whole thing going was to fill out an online sheet so that Mrs. Reynolds could know the area we were interested in, so we could learn about our career. I filled mine out that I was interested into going into the medical field. I was anxious to know were I was about to be shadowing at for a whole day. I found out that I would be going to Memorial Hospital to shadow and I was very excited. I worked at the other hospital in town over the summer, so for me to go to Memorial was very exciting because, I got to see how another hospital worked and what there working environment was like. I got all the information that I needed to know about my day working there from the head person in charge and I was ready to go. I got to the day and I rode with John and Hannah since we were all working at the same place so it made sense to all ride together. We got to the hospital and I found out that I was working on the second floor in post surgery. I got there and the person I was going to shadowing was nice. He was a nurse and told Jadlyn, who was working on the same floor and shadowing the same person I was, all that we needed to know about going into nursing and what we needed to do. He helped out patients and we got to go into rooms and see the problems that the people were having to deal with. It was also very neat to see all the tools that they used since he took us into the medical supply room and showed us all the things that they used. After that, it was time for lunch so we met up with all the people who were from Plains that were working at the hospital. We finished lunch and went back up to the floor where we were working and basically did the same thing that we did in the morning. At about two the person we were shadowing told us to explore the hospital, so we went to the morgue and got shown around which was really a neat experience. That was probably the best part of the day for me. Overall, it was a very good day and a great experience for me to learn about some of the odds and ins of the medical field.