Express Yourself
Express Yourself
Tennille C. Mcleod
College Reading
12:00pm Class
My name is Tennille C. Mcleod. I am a 38 year old returning nursing student to Sojourner Douglass College. I have spent the last 16 years in the Dialysis/Renal medical field. When I graduated from high school I was unsure of which way I wanted to go with my life. I joined the US Army Reserves. I completed 8 years of service with the army and once I returned home to the civilian world I decided to pursue my career in medicine. I have always been a caring and compassionate person I even volunteered as a red strip volunteer at St. Agnes Hospital as a teenager. I believe that nursing and medical staff require a special type of person. One that has an open mind, patience, and a heart that is full of joy when it comes to helping others. My medical education started at Medix School in Towson, Maryland. I completed the medical assisting program which gives you the basic healthcare setting skills (ie phlebotomy, blood pressure readings, injections, and medical terminology etc). After completing the nine month program and externship I interviewed for a job with a Dialysis Facility. At the time I had no idea what kidney disease or dialysis was. I interviewed for the position of patient care technician. I was offered a job with Dialysis Management which offered a full training in dialysis, full benefits, and not to mention it paid very well. During the intense 16 weeks of training there were times I didn’t think that this job was for me. This job required you to deal with a lot of blood at all times, different lethal and dangerous chemicals and the patients. My, oh my the patients some of them so fragile, so ill, and a lot of them just like me unaware of the illness that is now a part of their life forever. There was so much to learn and a lot I just had to learn from experience. As I began to study what kidney disease was and how it affects our population of African
Tennille C. Mcleod
College Reading
12:00pm Class
My name is Tennille C. Mcleod. I am a 38 year old returning nursing student to Sojourner Douglass College. I have spent the last 16 years in the Dialysis/Renal medical field. When I graduated from high school I was unsure of which way I wanted to go with my life. I joined the US Army Reserves. I completed 8 years of service with the army and once I returned home to the civilian world I decided to pursue my career in medicine. I have always been a caring and compassionate person I even volunteered as a red strip volunteer at St. Agnes Hospital as a teenager. I believe that nursing and medical staff require a special type of person. One that has an open mind, patience, and a heart that is full of joy when it comes to helping others. My medical education started at Medix School in Towson, Maryland. I completed the medical assisting program which gives you the basic healthcare setting skills (ie phlebotomy, blood pressure readings, injections, and medical terminology etc). After completing the nine month program and externship I interviewed for a job with a Dialysis Facility. At the time I had no idea what kidney disease or dialysis was. I interviewed for the position of patient care technician. I was offered a job with Dialysis Management which offered a full training in dialysis, full benefits, and not to mention it paid very well. During the intense 16 weeks of training there were times I didn’t think that this job was for me. This job required you to deal with a lot of blood at all times, different lethal and dangerous chemicals and the patients. My, oh my the patients some of them so fragile, so ill, and a lot of them just like me unaware of the illness that is now a part of their life forever. There was so much to learn and a lot I just had to learn from experience. As I began to study what kidney disease was and how it affects our population of African