Personal Narrative: My Job Shadowing Randy

I am interested in the Harcum EFDA program therefore I am looking to enhance my knowledge and skills as a dental professional. By attending the program I will get the opportunity to share experience with other students. The program will also help me to prepare for becoming an EFDA and allow me to learn and explore all the tasks I will need to complete. Such as placing and carving amalgam and composite restorations, placing sealants, coronal polishing, application of fluoride, placing of bases and liners and placing and removing matrix bands, wedges and rubber dams.

I believe that my Christian faith, cultural backgrounds, community service experience, leaderships skills, and creative thinking nature are the perfect match for the Orthodontic and Dentofacial Orthopedics Program. As I proceed with working towards my dream, I am reminded of the blessings that God has given me and how I could impact others with my talents. Sir Winston Churchill once said, “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we

It has been a long journey coming to a resolution for what I want to do with my professional life but finally, I have come to a decision. Dental hygienists are oral health professionals who are licensed in dental hygiene to provide educational, examination, medical, organizational and beneficial services for the sack of health for patients. The main reason I am interested in dental hygiene is, my whole life I’ve been interested in a profession in the health care division.

A: dentist treat their assistants like glorified slaves but once you work with them well you will feel like a part of the team its really great to create that bond.

This profession fits best with my lifestyle because I plan on having new friends, living around the Joplin area and I love helping people feel their best and boosting their confidence. Personality is a big thing with a career like dentistry you are always interacting, and meeting new people and you have to learn how to treat people and act in front of them. I could personally contribute kindness and facts that I have learned to make it a better occupation and make people want to come back.

To be able to pursue my dreams to become a orthodontic assistant would be a dream come true. This career makes me happy as a person and is something that I would never get tired of doing. I am very passionate to put smiles on patients faces daily, and seeing them become happier and wanting to smile more. The following qualities that I possess are hardworking, understanding, and willingness to work as a team. Being able to hear what others have to say and their reasoning is important to me, and also

When you are young, you are asked: "what do you want to be when you grow up?" Most children would reply by saying a superhero, a professional basketball player, a model, etc. My response was always, someone who can make a difference in an individual's life. Finding out how I was going to do that exactly was challenging until I reached my junior year in high school. I remember going to the Dental Office to get my regular cleaning and after watching my Dental Hygienist at the time, conduct her regular duties such as cleaning my teeth and educating me on good oral health I was intrigued. At that very moment, I knew that I wanted to help others by becoming a Dental Hygienist. I think that promoting and educating others on good oral health is very important because it

The place I decided to carry out my job shadowing experience is at Select Physical Therapy. During my time there, I decided to shadow an Occupational therapist who specialized in hand therapy. I wanted to shadow an Occupational Therapist because at the time, I was interested in becoming an Occupational Therapist and I wanted to see if this is really the career path I wanted to take.

For some jobs you would need teamwork skills to get your tasks done in time. In my placement at Vellore Woods Density most of the time we need to use teamwork skills because we are handling with people’s teeth and need to communicate with each other on what we need such as equipment’s. Patients are sometimes hard to keep them calm when they are all worked up or simply really nervous. We would try to reassure them, and tell them things would work out well. I learned a trick from my co-workers that if you keep calm, the patients will keep calm as well. They will also distract them by having mini conversations or have a conversation with each other (dentist and assistant) when the patients is going through surgery. This makes the patient be focused on the conversation then what’s going on with the

The career that fascinates me and what I plan to be when Im older, is a Dental Hygienist. A dental hygienist is a stressful job, but it helps a lot of people. You are helping people get better teeth and even look better, because when people have straight pretty teeth, they seem to have an upgrade in their looks. I haven’t always wanted to be a dental hygienist, I had many other career choices. But, something about making people smile when I’m the reason they look good doing it makes me happy.

When we were all younger, most of us had an idea of what we wanted to be when we grew up. Whether it was a firefighter or president, we all had our future planned out. But once we got older and entered high school, plans changed. For me personally, I changed my mind a couple of times before I made a decision about what I wanted to do with my life. I decided that I wanted to go to Parkland College and get my degree in Dental Hygiene. Why dental hygiene? Well, being a dental hygienist is a very stable job. People will always need their teeth to be cleaned and I would be paid well even in the beginning of the job. I wanted a job that would be stress free but also help people at the same time also.

My top four priorities for work are stability/ reliability, balance, money, and passionate. I would need a stable/ reliable job so I wouldn’t have to worried about losing my job. A deal breaker would be a lack of financial stability because I need to be able to pay my bills and then still have money left over to leisurely spend or for emergencies. Some of the character strengths that I felt accurately described me are gratitude, humor, and curiosity. Humor describes me the most because I like joking around and making others around me laugh.

Dental hygienists are assistants to the dentist because they get everything ready for the dentist and may even do some work before the dentist sees the patient depending on what the patient is there for. A dental hygienist helps assist their patients on how to practice good oral care and teaches them how to prevent dental diseases which are going to the dentist every six months, flossing twice a day, and brushing after every meal. Dental hygienists play an important role when it comes to informing patients about oral care and water fluoridation. Below is a brief description of the dental hygienists occupation and then the background information about water fluoridation.

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Call me Raquel. Call me Rochelle. Call me whatever you want. The many names that I respond to do not sway my personality. I am the daughter of two hard working, conservative parents. At my home in tiny, rural Warrenton, play came only after all my chores had been completed. Constantly unloading and stacking the endless piles of firewood wasn’t all that enjoyable, yet at every complaint I made, my dad proposed a convincing reason that we’d need the bundle. I endured the yardwork by imagining I was a lost princess, or a hero saving the world. Imagination and adventure were my buddies growing up, and I will proudly carry them to my grave. I adore the simple moments, such as watching Indiana University basketball with my mom, who was usually too