Early Immersion

How did you know you wanted to work in this field?
I honestly never thought I would be a nurse. Growing up I always wanted to

be a doctor but while applying to college I chose the nursing major and the
more I learned the more I started loving nursing and since both nursing and
medicine included doing your best to heal your patient, I became a nurse
and now I can’t see myself doing any other job than nursing.
• What drew you in when applying to work at X company?
What drew me in was how the hospital made a difference in what they do
and I joined because I also wanted to make a difference and help people.
• What do you wish you knew when you were in school about the job search?
I wish I knew that I was informed of how demanded my job was. I honestly
stressed out a lot and wondered if I could find an hospital or clinic that suited
me but later on found out it wasn’t as Stressful that I made it out to be.
• What do you personally find the most enjoyable part of working for this
company?
The most enjoyable part of working at Jackson memorial Hospital is my

schedule and the benefits. My schedule shifts depending on the week,
sometimes I work three days, some other time it’s four days a week and I like
it. The benefits include retirement and other expenses.
• Tell me about your about my day-to-day responsibilities.
Well first I clock in at 7 o’clock am at the computer and the hospital phone
then I write the charts and go to my patients’ rooms, I usually have between
six or five patient a day and write my name in the board in their room as
their nurse. I usually review their profile and give them their medications and
do some other necessary task could be calling the pharmacy to send new
medication if the previous is finished, calling their respective doctors so I can
get or give a follow up on the patient to know what we should do for the
patient and so on.
• What other positions/ classes helped you prepare for this this job?
I had many classes that prepared me for it but the ones who helped the most
were anatomy, biology and psychology. I honestly didn’t think I will need
psychology as a nursing student but it helped me a lot in the long run.
• How did you obtain shadowing experiences when you were an undergrad?
I didn’t get any shadowing experience while school so I had no clue how a
nurse’s life was.
I Interviewed my Aunt on a weekend that she didn’t have work and was free.
The 23rd of November at her house and before I interviewed her, I thought
she was going to be talking about things that I knew before, but she talked
about things that I never knew of her. My experience about learning more of
her job was new for me because I got a clear picture of how her day-to-day
life at her job was and I got to know the stuff that she did to help people. She
usually talks about it but when you make it an interview, It becomes more
real. It was as if I was learning about what she did when she woke up early in
the morning to go to her work for the first time all over again.
I got to learn that psychology is actually useful and I will find some way to
use it in the future so it's not completely useless, and that’s one thing I
learned during this interview. While doing this interview, I observed that
what you have to do for this job is usually not always what you expected.
And being ready for everything is something that you should have as a
mindset. And be able to adapt to anything also.
She told me that um. After the interview, she told me. To not be scared of
difficult time because the health care field is a field that is difficult in any
profession speciality that you choose and. To be prepared and be ready for
everything, and that’s something that she used as a quote in college to get
through nursing school and everything else.
During this interview, I learned to a skill that I had developed was being able
to put myself forward and be less timid because I’m usually not able to talk
about things that I don’t find conversation worthy, and my communication
skill have also developed. Being a doctor requires good communication skills
and I think that during this interview learning to develop my communication
skills helped me because I will need to interact with patients as a doctor, so
It will help me in the future.
My perception of this activity changed because I honestly thought it was

going to be difficult to do and it turned out to be easier to do and I would like
more activities like that in the future because it helps coming out of my
comfort zone and even though I interviewed a family member. I will not be
doing that in the future because I think the point w of this activity is making
connection with people that you are not familiar with. And I think if I did an
interview of someone that I wasn’t familiar with I could have developed more
skills and be more prepared. So yes, I will be wanting to do this activity in
the future.

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How did you know you wanted to work in this field?

I honestly never thought I would be a nurse. Growing up I always wanted to

• What drew you in when applying to work at X company?

The most enjoyable part of working at Jackson memorial Hospital is my

• Tell me about your about my day-to-day responsibilities.

My perception of this activity changed because I honestly thought it was

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