Internship Final Reflection

Did you meet your goals?
Icant say i had fully met my goals, but i know i did the best i could at this unique experience we had.

What are the most important things you’ve learned?
Well the most important thing i've learned is how the real world works and what things to expect when i get a real job

In what ways have your grown?
Just trying to be more responsible and sirious.

What were the highlights of your internship experience?
Well one highlight was how at first i hated my internship site and after a while i loved it !


If you can, describe a memorable moment or experience?
The most memorable moment throughout this whole time at internship happened a couple of days ago. It was the most scariest and saddest moment i had seen an old guy die right inflont of my eyes.

What challenges did you overcome?
My biggest challenge i had overcame is working with other people and being abled to listen to others.

What advice would you give a new intern at this site?
Just follow the rules and you'll do great !!!

What will you miss about your internship?
I will definetely miss my co-workers!(very nice people!)

The Interview

Questions

1. What is your full name?
Joseph Coletto

2. Where are you from?
Texas,US

3. Where did you go to college? For how long? Do you plan to go back to school?
New York University for 6 years, no i am already setteled with my life.

4. (If the interviewee went to college)…What was your major in college and what kind of degree do you earn?
My major was the Physical Therapy and i had to earn Master's degree.

5. Why did you choose that field?
I chose this field because i found it interesting and because medicine field is always the most highly paid, plus you do a good thing by helpinf out others.

6. How long have you worked here?
I've worked here for already 13 years

7. What is your job title?
OT Supervisor

8. What do your duties include? Or What kinds of work does your job involve?
My job involve making sure other OT and PT therapist do their job, making sure they are making some progress with patients ablity to take care of themselves.

9. What is the best part of your job?
The best part of my job is seeing patients go home fully recovered and happy.

10. Did you work somewhere else before this job? Where? For how long? How was that similar/different?
No this is my first official job after college.

11. What do you see as your future with this company?
Becoming Director of OT

12. What advice would you give to high school-aged interns (such as myself) getting ready for college and then the real world?
Well first of all you have to make your decisoin on what you really want to go for in life such as your major. You have find out all the information about it and try to get some experince in that working environment such as volunteering experience

Old & New

OLD: One of the old and daily things i do at my internship site is translating. There a several Russian speaking patient in my department who have been there for a long period of time. Every day they come in to rehab gym for their exercises. My co-workers and the therapists always ask me to stay along with them to translate so it would be an easier time for them and us.

OLD: Another old duty of mine is alwas stay along with the therapist when they are taking out the patient on a walk around the OT floor. I need to stay really close to the patient's back so that in case if he/she falls, i'll imediatlybe able to move the chair so that there won't be any unpleasent accident.

NEW: The very new challenge for me at OT is help out nurses put the patients from wheelchair back to their bed. It might seem very easy, but when you try out yourself it takes time, energy and a specific way of doing that. The therapist picks up the patient by their back and in 1 second i have to be fast enough to move the bed so that when the patient is seated he was is suppose to seat properly.

NEW: The second new thing is now sometimes i am sent to the other OT department that also taked place in out hospital. That other OT is in the same building where Metro Sport is located ( Yuri's Department). It is much smaller that mine not only in size but also patient amount. What i do is just help out therapists in that department or just prings some props that out have and theirs doesn't

Daily post April 17th.

Today my internship was going pretty slow, even though i stayed busy the whole time. As soon as i came in my superviser sent me to the nursing station to help out the secretary's with filing medical charts. It was kind of confusing to me at first because you had to be real careful about each chart, but as i did a couple of them i got used to it and knew what to do next. I also got to participate in a physical activities with OT patients. Unfortunatelly one of patients that was at the herab gym tried to stand up herself and felt down, because she wasn't able to hold her weigh. Everyone stared to panic and then i had to run downstair to the emergency room to get someone to come up and take care of that lady.

Daily post april 16th.

Today was just a simple wednesday. Since my OT members have a meeting from 1:00 to 2:30 i help out in volunteering resourses department. For the first half an hour i did so filing. i had to put out every inactive volunteer and then rearage the documents and medical forms. Then i went to sent and pick up mail which is located in a total different pavillion. Afterwards i was done got my credic for working in VR and headed to OT. There all my co-workers sat down and watched a video about rules and advances in OT. It took aproximetaly and hour and for the next half an hour that was left i was just perfoming the usual activities helped out therapist who were tryin to walk with patient, so i just followed them with a wheelcair.

Daily Post april 15th.

Today the whole day was going so slow,just like a turtle that was running in a 15 mile marathon. I got to the internship site, went to lunch real fast, got changed into my uniform, which by the way is white scrub shirt & blue scrub pants and and headed to OT. As i came in i noticed that th rehab gym was pretty empty. I asked my superviser Joe how come it was like that because it's usually so ull that u barely get t squizze in between eachother & happily most of the patients were sent to some kind of supervision test. So basically i got to communicate with therapist and student therapist who are just couple of years older than i am. They gave me some good suggestions on which colleges i should be puttig my attention on regardless on which medical proffesion i'll choose. It was pretty cool talking to them about outside things and hear them share some funny experiences they had in OT so far.

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