My Clinical Experience Essay

1) In high school I began volunteering at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in the summer of 2012. Unlike most volunteering areas, I was placed in an outpatient sports medicine department. After volunteering there for 4 years, I learned to interact with patients, physical therapists, and sports medicine doctors. This exposure allowed me to appreciate the various areas of healing that occurred for some patients. Some would come in to see the doctors, and then a week later move up to work with the physical therapists. This flow of patients was very interesting to experience and I was able to gain insight from other heal professionals outside doctors and nurses. Physical therapists are crucial to many patient’s recoveries so I was very valuable to

After accumulating these two clinical exposures, I found myself wanting to see what it would be like in a major hospital and in a fast paced setting. I began volunteering in the Cleveland Clinic Emergency Room this past December and to say it is fast paced is an understatement. I am hands on helping nurses, I am observing physicians, and interacting with patients in ways I had never experienced before. This clinical experience really gives me a hospital feeling and understanding that I think everything has accumulated to prepare me to handle this position. While completing all of these clinical experiences, I also had the privilege to shadow physicians in 8 different professions. From outpatient to operating room, I found myself in love with the team nurses and doctors form. I also was in love with how physicians interacted with patients. They treated them as people and not as a patient. Physicians also controlled the atmosphere of the room and decided all the plans of action from the OR to whether a child needed a booster shot or not. Being around these different physicians also gave me a better appreciation for medicine as a whole and how each profession can interact with one another if need