Volunteering Reflection

When I was volunteering at N.Y.P.Q., the three floors I volunteered on gave me the task to break the patients binders for discharge. In their terms ‘break’ means to take apart the patient 's papers and organize them in a specific order in which will be reviewed by the admitting office. I had been given this task many times and each time I do it, I always go over the order. The reason is that since the doctors and nurses are always in a rush they put very important papers into random sections of the binder. I have to make sure that the very important papers are in the front and that each paper is labeled with the patient 's information. If one paper is misplaced, that is a big problem. The people of admittance expect the papers to be already divided into the proper order so that can either discharge the patient or file a report for the deceased.

Barbara, the nursing coordinator, had given me an administrative task, I am supposed to input the number of nurses on the 7th floor for each day of January. The documents were confusing because the numbers were all over the place and I had a to scribe them onto a separate document. I kept on visiting Barbara and asking her questions about the documents. I soon understood them and was able to finish half of them and left the other half for the next time I come for the volunteer who will here the next day in the