Welcome to allied health II! Your first assignment is to post an answer to one of the following questions:
1. Why did you decide to apply to the allied health program?
2. What do you hope to accomplish this year in allied health II?
3. What do you want to learn this year in allied health II?
4. What are you most looking forward to in allied health II?
5. What do you think will be the most challenging for you this year in allied health II?
Due Date: Monday, September 19, 2011
1. Why did you decide to apply to the allied health program?
2. What do you hope to accomplish this year in allied health II?
3. What do you want to learn this year in allied health II?
4. What are you most looking forward to in allied health II?
5. What do you think will be the most challenging for you this year in allied health II?
Due Date: Monday, September 19, 2011
Maximum Point Value: 10
Since this first assignment is practice, do not worry about the length requirements. You will not lose points for having fewer than 100 words for this assignment only.
I chose to sign up for Allied Health because I wanted a career in the medical field. At first I wanted to be a pediatrician but after seeing everything that I have with Allied Health I I’m not exactly sure what I want to be. My initial reason for signing up was to learn more about pediatrics and what it takes and how much school etc. I didn’t exactly expect to change my mind and be so open-minded in the end and not be too sure. Taking Allied Health II hopefully will help me with figuring out what field of nursing I’d like to study.
ReplyDeleteAs a little kid I always liked helping people no matter what. I would move something or run and get something if I was asked. I would always seek people out to see what I could do if they looked like they needed it. It was so rewarding emotionally. To this day I still love helping people whenever I can. At the age of 10 I decided I was going to be a doctor and go overseas to be a missionary somewhere. I met some missionaries from over seas and when I was about 14 I didn't want to go over seas to be a missionary or a missionary at all, yet I still had the passion to be a doctor. Little did I know there were so many different kinds of doctors. I found that out on my 3 year run of hurting myself pretty bad to the point where I had to go to the hospital and stay over. After those fun events I was a little confused as to what I wanted to do for a living because I was also getting very proficient at mixing sound for bands and in the auditorium. When this confusion was taking place I was getting into sophomore year which is when I came to Rockville High School. It came to be mid-year and I was reading that little booklet on the new classes. As I was looking at the science section I found the Allied Health part and I was thrilled! I knew I was taking that class. At the end of Jr. year into summer I decided healthcare wasn't for me any more but the collage credits will defiantly look good to any collage, so I stayed with the course. Anyway it's a science credit and I have a lot of friends in it. I probably would have taken anatomy anyway.
ReplyDeleteI applied to Allied Health for numerous reasons, but my main reason was because I had been volunteering at my aunt work ever since I can remember. From a very young age I dealt with the disabled, the elderly, etc, and I realized that I really enjoyed taking care of them and just being there for them. I started to help out in the gym with the physical and occupational therapists and started to really pick up an interest for the health care field. I wanted to learn more about all the different aspects of the health care field.
ReplyDeleteI chose to apply to the Allied Health program for various reasons. Between my family strongly involved with emergency services, such as the fire department and police force, I knew from a very young age that doing something to help people was in my future. As I grew I took interest in nursing and my passion for helping people grew, and I knew that was the career for me. Allied Health was a step in the right direction to learn what it takes to be a nurse, finalize my decision on my career choice, and also gets my foot in the door and to start preparing for what lies ahead of me.
ReplyDeleteChelle Downs says:
ReplyDeleteI have always enjoyed watching Discovery Health on television since a young age. I find the procedures shown very interesting, and made me start thinking about going into a medical career. Allied Health allowed students to explore the different fields in the medical setting. This program was a great fit to my interests and has many opportunities to begin researching a medical career early. I joined Allied Health to get a start on schooling to work in a medical setting without the cost of college tuition. I also enjoy working with people and learning by working hands on. I was uncertain what field in the medical setting I wanted to go into when I joined the program, now I have decided on Medical Imagining.
This year in Allied Health 2 I hope to learn as much as I can about the human body and how it works. I want to go into college with more than the average understanding of anatomy and physiology and hopefully this class will help me accomplish that. Between learning about all the systems and structures of the body and how they work, I hope to have a good basis for any science courses my college programs will have. This year I also hope to decide what exactly it is I want to major in through shadowing one on one and discovering more about what interests me in our body. Health care is a broad field and I want to have a general idea as to where I'll fit into it. Aside from these academic interests, I'm looking forward to further developing our allied health family as we spend yet another fun year together with Mrs. Williams too! Here's to a good year learning about human anatomy and physiology! :)
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ReplyDeleteI decided to join the Allied Health Program, because I know for a fact that I want to be in the medical field when I get older. The main problem I have, though, is that I’m not sure which path I want to take. I know for a fact, now, that I don't want to anything to have to do with pharmacy (sorry Chels). Coming into the course, I thought pharmacy was exactly what I wanted to do; I was dead set on it. Now that I've researched it and everything, I know that I want the complete opposite of it. I knew that by taking this course, I would be able to narrow down what I actually wanted to go to school for. Still, though, I am undecided, and I hope that by doing personal job shadows, I will be able to decide what it is I want to do in the future.
Kelly Walker
ReplyDeleteI applied to the allied health program knowing that I wanted to go into the health field but I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to go into. I thought I wanted to be a nurse or a dietician but because I learned about different professions and went on job shadows I know now that I don't want to be eather of those. I now beleive that I want to go into athletic training or athletic training. I also applied to the allied health program knowing that you get to experience eye opening job shadows. The job shadows was one of the main reason why I applied. I also had people from track telling me that it was a good program to get into. Overall the program just seemed like a really good opportunity and a chance to get a true understanding of other professions in the world.
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ReplyDeleteI have always had an interest in learning more about the human body. When I was younger I would always watch television shows that would talk more in depth about why the human body works the way that it does. I decided to take the Allied Health course because usually when you are younger your mind always changes with what you want to do when you grow up, but for me this idea stayed constant in my head. I knew for sure that I wanted to work in the health care field, but I just wasn't sure exactly what I wanted to do. I was hoping that this program would help me figure out what it was that I wanted to do exactly. I thought that Allied Health would help me to understand and it definitely has done just that. I have a much better understanding on what I want to do with my life, and I love having the opportunity to learn about working in the health care field and being able to do hands on activities. This program has given me a great opportunity and has opened my eyes to all that the world offers! Now I have decided on an APRN majoring in pediatrics.
ReplyDeleteChelsea McDonnell said:
ReplyDeleteI applied to the Allied Health program my sophomore year because, at that point in time, I had no idea what career I wanted to have in the future. However, I knew that, first and foremost, I wanted to be able to help other people, and I knew that the being involved in the medical field would allow me to accomplish this. Several of my family members have had a medical profession at one point in time; my father worked in a nursing home for several years, my mother went to nursing school for a period of time, and my grandmother has been a nurse for over 30 years and now works in quality management at a nursing home. For the past three summers, I've volunteered at that same nursing home. I've helped with serving meals to the residents, taking them for walks, listening to their stories, running the gift shop, organizing a used book sale, and organizing medical records. I loved being in that sort of atmosphere and knowing that I was spending my summers helping others. Thanks to the final project we did in Allied Health I, I decided to look more into becoming a pharmacist. This past summer, I was able to shadow the director of pharmacy at the nursing home. I was able to learn so much about the profession, and I loved every second I was there. It's definitely something I'm interested in doing in the future.