A career choice dictates a person’s life and future. Being able to persevere in your occupation that is just right for you can lead to a lifetime full of satisfaction and happiness. What other better career choice than one that serves to assist the community? Being a pediatric physician assistant, you “provide healthcare services to children under the supervision of a medical doctor” ("Pediatric Physician Assistant: Salary and Career Information"). While you are not considered a licensed doctor, physician assistants can still “provide children with diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive medical care” ("Pediatric Physician Assistant: Salary and Career Information").…
“Children learn for the sake of learning. Their minds seek knowledge like the eyes seeks light. I often get asked “Why do you want to become a Child Life Specialist?” My answer is I want to make a big impact on children and their families. A Child Life Specialist is a healthcare profession individual who assists children with comprehending medical preparations. They make sure that children lives remain normal by putting forward impressive and capable coping through amusement (relaxation), activities, pain-management and educational facts for child and parents. Child Life Specialists are well trained experienced specialists who guide children as they cope with anxiety of hospitalizations, accidents, illness and injuries.…
Coping with children- Young children are extremely perceptive and will quickly detect any uncertainly on your part. Gain an injured or sick child’s confidence by talking first to someone he or she trust-a parent accepts you and believes you will help, this confidence will be conveyed to the child.…
Have you ever walked in to a room where there are four crying babies and felt in your heart this is where you belong? Well I have had this love when I did college hours for Odessa college at First United Methods children’s center. “Every child is a different kind of flower, and all together make this world a beautiful garden” (author unknown). Daycare worker know that every child is different from the next and that each child has a different personality, which will one day in life all the different personality will combined in school or their job that they pick later in life. People who are caregivers of children impact their lives more than the worker knows.…
In my opinion, the biggest challenging part of working as a Child Life Specialist will be the grief care, bereavement and intervention with a patient with life-threatening illness. I am going to cope with these challenges by preparing myself as professionally, and by respecting the children’s and families’ feelings. Child life specialists can contribute to the patients’ and families’ quality of life, and I believe that it is significant to support patients and families emotionally/socially regardless of situation. I will personally deal with these stressors by keeping my professional perspective, and by utilizing coping techniques (writing my concerns/feelings down, listening to music, sleeping, and taking a deep…
Whilst growing up I experienced the care and devotion that Nurses provide children with whilst they are in Hospital when I was hospitalised myself; witnessing this again many times when my siblings or cousins were in Hospital. I was in awe of how kind and dedicated the nurses were to their patients and from then I have had a powerful desire to follow in their footsteps. Child Nursing is an extremely challenging, but overwhelmingly rewarding, career path that I have wished to pursue for many years, it was when I began to care for children with disabilities, two years ago, through a local charity that the idea of becoming a Children’s Nurse was entirely cemented into my mind.…
There are many principles and values which are important in caring for children, however, the care, safety and welfare of the child are indeed paramount. Every child is unique and is entitled to the expertise given by the team of professionals concerned with his/her care. Values include human rights, individual difference, cultural diversity, equal opportunity, health and well being, educational, self esteem and resilience. The carer must be acutely aware of confidentiality, professional knowledge, and skills and training to perform her duties to the highest standards. I treat the young people with respect for their rights and dignity.…
I have spent much of my life in two entirely different worlds. Born and raised in America, I spent many of my summers visiting my grandmother in Cheonan, South Korea. During the long summer visits, I attended art academy, Taekwondo classes, and Korean language school. I met and befriended many people as I immersed myself in the city and its culture.…
Duty of care is to keep children safe and to protect them from sexual, physical and emotional harm. Children have a right to be safe and to be treated with dignity and respect. It is our role within the setting to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the children is met. Knowing that I have a duty of care towards everyone I work with provides me a clear guide on how I should behave and act and how I must consider those who I work with. I need to work with the best interest of the children’s needs and in order for me to do that I will have to follow the codes of practice and think about my duty of care so that I can ensure my practice will…
Some children may have a range of needs, and the way that we work together can have a positive impact on their health, development, learning and well-being. In my work setting we respond to the needs of young children and their families in a holistic approach as this is a very important part of the government framework. e.g .ECM Every Child Matters, the five outcomes of ECM is that we should be working together to achieve the best possible outcomes for the children in our care these outcomes are as follows.…
When children have to go see the doctor or have to go to the hospital, it can be very overwhelming and scary to them. Not understanding why doctors do what they do to help us, children associate the word doctor or hospital with “pain”. Even as an adult, a hospital is not are favorite place to be. For a child, getting stitches, a shot, or even their blood pressure checked can be traumatic.…
Volunteering this semester has enabled me to potentially make a positive impact in the lives of those who I come into contact with on Pediatrics at the Regina General Hospital. In my first two weeks of volunteering, I have already had many incredible opportunities to learn about what roles nurses, physicians, and how other support staff collaborate in aiding the healing process for the children.…
My love of biology started in high school. We had young and enthusiastic teachers, who took us on field trips and visits. They made sure we did as much practical work as was feasible and demonstrated experiments that we could do ourselves. They also encouraged us to read. I remember the impact of the reading “The Big Bang Theory” had on me. Since, then I made up my mind to join medical stream as my future educational option.…
Patience and attention to detail for a healthcare provider can determine the outcome of a patient’s health. As I cared for toddlers my interest and desire for working with children grew. I reconfirmed that I had the characteristics of knowing how to take important issues with time and preciseness to assure that nothing of importance is left…
As student nurses, no matter how toxic our patient can be, at the end of the day we would always want to deliver effective care and see them get better because of us. Teaching children in the community is no different. No matter how difficult it can become to teach them their lessons, we would always want them to learn something from us even for a short period of time…