I have the fortunate position of being able to say that my career, for the most part, has allowed me to invest my time in the places that both interest me and have had a beneficial impact on underserved and low-income communities. Through my work I have been able to respond to societal needs in healthcare and, my passion, community development. At the same time I realize that to have the greatest impact in the community development field requires me to further my formal education, deepen my policy expertise, develop my leadership skills, enhance my management ability and learn from the leaders in the field.
My career path was heavily influenced by my early life experience and began with my parents, immigrants from the Dominican Republic, who through example and lesson instilled a deep sense of justice and fairness and a commitment to community. They were always the one to speak up when they or others experienced injustice and eagerly taught my sibling and I the importance of active civic participation. I also saw and experienced what happens when public dollars are not carefully invested due to poor policy decisions. The public housing I lived in started off as new opportunity for all the families that moved in before the rapid disappearance of community services and any form of maintenance which was replaced by arson, gun violence, drug and gang-related activity. Our community was abandoned, left with limited resources and faulted for a situation, which was created, by failed public policy and simple apathy by government.
The influence of my younger years led me to start a career in community health in Boston and ultimately move to New York where I ultimately landed at Citi in the company’s community development departmen...
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...r community development finance. The diversity of course offerings, real-world application opportunities and strong faculty are of significant interested to me. I find that the program will enable me to add to the national discourse in a meaningful and thoughtful way that advances the field. The program also offers critical management and leadership skills that will help position me to successfully take on the more impactful leadership roles I am interested in, such as leading a foundation, serving in government at a high level or managing a national community development organization. For these reasons I believe the New School for Public Engagement is the institution best suited to advance my goals of serving low-income communities with the greatest possible skill and knowledge while also tapping into a vast network of dedicated and like-minded professionals.
Expanded and strengthened state private insurance companies are to be expected since more younger Texans enter the market thanks to the premium support. Texas can expect savings through more proper use of medical care, lower numbers in Medicaid, and savings from increased recipient cost sharing. Texas must refuse to comply with the new high-risk pools. There are many reasons Texas should not comply but the main reason is poor design. Currently, eighteen states have decided not to participate in these pools, Texas is undecided. Any person with a pre-existing medical disorder whom has been without insurance for six month will qualify. The law gave the Department of Health discretion in determining with conditions qualifies. Theoretically, the Department of Health could say the flu is a pre existing medical condition. If Texas does not refuse to comply with these pools it is only a matter of time before the demand will exceed the supply. A huge concern is when the funding is gone what do the state politicians do. I see two options. One, state officials will end the coverage all together and pull the plug. Two, continue to allow the program to run with the use of state tax dollars.
Health care providers not knowing their surrounding community impacts the way they provide health care to a patient. I hope to use my background in community work with underrepresented populations and the qualities I gained to hopefully reduce and someday diminish the concern that health care isn’t keeping up with the demographics of the surrounding community. The third health care concern I will talk about is another near and dear to me which is the severely low quality health care women in developing countries receive.
I will contribute to the mission of the Nurse Corps Scholarship program by continuing to provide care to individuals in underserved communities. Medically underserved communities involve racial minorities, offenders and ex-offenders, crime or abuse victims, LGBTQ citizens, people with AIDS, and those that are economically disadvantaged. I was born in the small town of Monroeville, AL. It is a great town but it does not have the best resources when it comes to health care. Most members of this town, including my family, would bypass the hospital there and go to the one in the next town simply because they feel
Both 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale are dystopian novels, however, these books are a lot more complex than mere portrayals of dystopia, it can be argued that they are explorations of dystopia rather than mere portrayals. In order to explore dystopia, many themes must be considered, such as; feminism, love and repression. Nonetheless, it is apparent that human characteristics are the driving point of the two novels, predominantly, the depiction of human resilience. In an imperfect world, it is important to have certain qualities which, if plentiful, it can mean success, whereas if it lacks, it can mean failure, this characteristic is resilience. The protagonists in each novel, Winston in 1984 and Offred in The Handmaid’s Tale face situations which leave them both in disarray, and both even consider suicide. The authors tentatively highlight human resilience, its limits and most importantly its strengths into the two novels.
This compare and contrast essay is over two versions of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”. The two versions of the story that will be compared in this essay are the teleplay and the short story. The essay will include similarities and differences regarding the plot, how the teleplay construction differs from the short story, the differences between the two genres and how they affect the reader, and my opinion of which genre I prefered and why.
Democratic is when citizens vote for all elected officials. Many had defied political system as it was, and thrived towards to create a democratic system that will be beneficial for America as a whole. Andrew Jackson was one of those individuals who challenged the government’s views, and whose name is tied closely to democracy. This essay will focus on the aspects that made this president so great and how democratic was he in actual fact.
Healthcare is intriguing. The health and wellness of people always has been intriguing and always will be. My background in healthcare came as an environmental pass down with a father as a Registered Nurse and a mother in healthcare management. It was inevitable that the journey of healthcare started being instilled without my knowledge of it, as a young child. A constant learning in the health sciences and management directed my way. By the start of college, the intrigue lead to compassion, lighting a fire for the administration of healthcare. This calling spurred by a great woman, my mother, who is a national redesign award winner by the Bureau of Primary Healthcare in Health Disparities. These footsteps down her similar path with careful guidance, but not to be confused with an easy path.
During one of my undergraduate courses, “Community and Population Health”, I completed a paper on my community and access to healthcare. During the research and community outreach performed to meet the goals of the paper, my eyes were opened to the plight of small communities in regards to access to quality healthcare. This plight has become my passion, and has formed the basis for my vision of the Family Nurse Practitioner role.
Scott Hightower’s poem “Father” could be very confusing to interpret. Throughout almost the entirety of the poem the speaker tries to define who his father is by comparing him to various things. As the poem begins the reader is provided with the information that the father “was” all of these things this things that he is being compared to. The constant use of the word “was” gets the reader to think ‘how come the speaker’s father is no longer comparable to these things?’ After the speaker reveals that his father is no longer around, he describes how his father impacted him. Details about the father as well as descriptions of the impacts the father has distraught on the speaker are all presented in metaphors. The repetitive pattern concerning the speaker’s father and the constant use of metaphors gives the reader a sense that the speaker possesses an obsessive trait. As the reader tries to interpret the seemingly endless amount of metaphors, sets of connotative image banks begin to develop in the reader’s mind. Major concepts that are expressed throughout the poem are ideas about what the speaker’s father was like, what he meant to the speaker, and how he influenced the speaker.
As someone who has many aspirations in life, I understand having both long and short-term goals is important. One of my long-term professional objectives includes being a community service manager at a health center. With this I am hoping to work with many other healthcare professionals to coordinate health programs and initiatives to improve the health of communities. Having a background in health promotion alongside the leadership and management skills and the real world experience that I intended to gain from this program will give me all I need to make this
My transition into the nursing profession was a major achievement for I am able to use my acquired skills to contribute to the community. As a bedside nurse and a staff member of a large medical establishment, I had to learn how to deliver care to a population that is very diverse. In order for that care to be effective, I must assume the roles of a counselor, therapist, educator, advocate and most of all as an interpersonal facilitator.
In the poem “The Silken Tent”, the poet starts the poem with the word ‘She’ which indicates that the poem is about a women. The words “she is as” indicates a use of metaphor, relating a women to that of a tent. In some interpretations this poem can refer to a special ‘she’ but in this interpretation it refers to the position of woman in society - in general. Although the poem sounds relaxed and peaceful, like ‘the sunny summer breeze’, the underlying message is about the bondage of woman in ‘silken ties’ to the family and society. The whole poem is a single sentence that is of fourteen lines. This poem is an English sonnet or more commonly known as a Shakespearean sonnet. This poem is arranged in such a way that the line endings do not coincide with natural pauses - such as the end of line two: someone reading the words "a sunny, summer breeze / has dried the dew" would not necessarily pause after "breeze", this technique is called enjambment. The poem has an iambic pentameter. In “the silken tent”, woman’s characteristics are implied being soft, smooth, strong, responsible, extraordinary, graceful, spiritual, and confidant, carefree and loves everyone and everything. The poet also points at the many responsibilities women have and how lovingly she attends to them. She is beyond the ordinary.
As a starting point I have chosen to use the “Experimental Learning Model” (ELM) (Kolb & Fry, 1975) both because of its simplicity and to limit my own tendency to over complicate things as a way of avoiding bringing myself onto the page, which is something often commented upon in previous feedback.
I have chosen Public Health as my career path because I have a passion for making a difference in people’s lives and helping others achieve their goals. Also, I chose healthcare as a career because health does not only focus on the physical aspects of wellness, but it applies to all areas of wellness, such as, intellectual, social, spiritual, financial, occupational, environmental and emotional wellness. Moreover, Public Health is a challenging, diverse and dynamic field. My philosophy of health is very simple, to prevent, improve and educate the lives of individuals, families, communities and the population. Besides, there is no safer way to touch people’s lives than through public