Final Reflection

1. Look back to your earliest posts. What were your goals? Did you achieve these goals? If so, what did you have to do consistently to achieve the goals?
My earliest goal is gain work experience and learn how to communicate with different patients. And develop my organizational skills in a hospital environment. Later I set the new goal that use the computer to help the patient re-schedule and help the new patients make clinic cards that they can use that card to make the appointments and check up. I achieved these goal, I start to learn the base things like making phones call, delivering the files and making copies. I did it well and I am curious how they work on the computer. Then the co-workers taught me help the patients re-schedule and made the clinic cards.  

2. What are the most important ideas or skills you’ve learned in the last 12 weeks?
The most important skills I've learned in the last weeks are communication,written and oral,  attention to detail, manage a calendar schedule and attention to deadlines.

3. In what ways have your grown as a student and young adult?
I think is handle things in different ways. When students have challenging questions, they have teachers to led them to solve it. when adult have challenging things, you need to predict what you should do and what you can not do. Sometime,  you need to solve that without help, only by yourself.

4. What were the highlights (memorable moments) of your internship experience?
The highlights of my internship experience were the first day I work in the pediatrics clinic and I don't know what to do and waited for the jobs, the lady nicely to greet me and show me the procession to make phone calls. At the last week, I learned how to use the computer to help the patients re-schedule, After I finished, I found I made mistakes of it and I told them honestly. The co-workers did rebuke me, they said "nice try" they didn't correct the mistakes, but they tell you the procession to solved it.
5. What have you learned about the professional world?
I have learned learn about the professional world that base on different people, say and do different words and works. Every time you should show your respectful and your hard work, then people will know you and like you that you can learn more things you want to get.

6. What challenges did you overcome?
The challenges I overcome were communicate with the patients with the phone and base on the direction to find the rooms where I should deliver the stuffs to or grab the stuffs from.

7. If you were to start internship next week, what is at least one thing you would do differently?
I would do differently is willing to ask more curious questions and quickly to done my work then I have time to learn new things.

8. Think of two to three pieces of advice you could offer a new intern at your site.
I could offer three advices for a new intern at my site, they are RESPECTFUL, TRY YOUR BEST TO GET YOUR WORK DONE, AND WILLING TO ASK AND HELP. Another suggestion is CURIOUS. 

9. What will you miss about your internship?
I will miss my new friends, co-workers and my supervisor. I'll  also miss the nurses and the babies. I miss what I did during my internship.

Thank you Letter

04/13/2011

Dear Ms. Christina,

     Thank you so much for being my internship supervisor this year. I really appreciate you taking care of me and offering the amazing job for me. It is very helpful and made me feel comfortable to work in the pediatrics clinic. Coney Island Hospital is wonderful place because I saw newborn babies everyday. You and the co-workers treated me so nicely. I loved this opportunity you gave me to learn new ideas outside of school and improve my communication skills and responsibilities.

     I am thankful to you for answering all the questions even though you were so busy. i was so pleased to work with my co-workers. i loved them and love to work with them. They taught me new things step by step, from the base and through development. They were very patient to teach me. My work was not always perfect and I sometimes made mistakes. but they did not rebuke me. Instead, they encouraged me to do it better. Because of you, I was able to meet them and learn from them.

     I will miss you and my new friends a lot. If you want to say hi to me, you can send me an email at jzhao@inths.org. I would love to hear form you.

Thank you so much! 

Sincerely, 

JieWen Zhao

Photo Essay



Yeah!! Here is inside of the department and  you can see my supervisor, my friend(Akmal) and me. 
Base on our smile face, you can know how happy we are. 

My supervisor is very nice and beautiful lady. She takes care of us and giving us the jobs. 

I love my intern place that my supervisor gave it to me.



We are standing in front of our Volunteer Department where I sign in and sign out place. And I met many new friends over there. We are wearing the volunteer jacket. pink for girls and gray for boys. How we look like? I know, very professional!!

I am standing in front of the Coney Island hospital mail room with the nice man who works over here.I'm delivering  the medical files to the mail room everyday. When I feel tired, I will deliver the stuffs to the mail room because if you need to go to the ail room , you need to go through the long~hallway. I will do some exercise on that way.  



Are you curious where is it? At first I have the same question. Here is Graphic Service and it takes charge the file papers printing. I would come to here per week to make order of the file papers and grab these back. Keeping it secret,I only took the picture of the door. Inside is like a large factory. Are you interesting?





You know why I make this picture bigger? I want you to look at the name of this room. I took most of time in here. BINGO! Here is my internship site- Pediatrics Clinic. I worked inside of the door. There are many babies and lovely furniture for them. I made phone calls to the patients, organized the medical files for the doctors and helped the patients re-schedule . Sometimes, I was playing with the kids. There are two terrible friendly co-workers sat next to me and gave me the clear job to do. Wonderful!!