Why I Want to Work in the Medical Field- To Impact People's Lives

I have experience in the medical environment, and when two of my grandmothers took ill I helped them along the way. My heart is good, but the devil never fails to steal my joy. I am also a mother of four beautiful young ladies, so yes I also have a lot of patience. I treat most of my patients like they were my own family. All of my patients get my respect. It is owed to them and they demand it as well. Having compassion, being king, understanding, helpful, staying prepared and willing are all just a few personal attributes that one should have when dealing with patients.

Dealing with difficult patients I would say is just like dealing with children in a way. When they want their way, they will cry, scream, and do just about anything to get your attention. When I am dealing with a hard patient, I will remain calm, respectful, and compassionate but yet still in my scope of practice. If I am unable to help the patient, then I would find someone who could help that patient’s situation.

Sometimes when a patient is being difficult, it is because they might need something like pain management or may be just a little conversation with a little tender loving care. Once when I worked as a Phlebotomist, I was walking past a residents room when I hears here crying for help. I told the Certified Nursing Assistant that was in charge of that room, she said,” She is always crying about something girl”. When I came back the next day, the resident was expired and I had already told on that C. N. A. about what happened the day before. After that the C. N. A. was under investigation and later went to jail. What happened was the residents’ oxygen was running low as she was calling for help. She could not ring the nurse bell be...

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...r my patients/residents. I have had a lot of experience with that throughout my life. As I wrote towards the beginning of this essay, I assisted with my great-grandmother and grandmother as they became ill. I know all of the stages of illness and how it is on the body and how people act when they know or have a good idea that they are about to expire. I can accept the way they feel at that point in their life. I know they are angry at the words and they are asking,” Why me, why now”. No matter what they have done to me I still so my job, and at the same time stay compassionate to them. After all, they need me, they need us.

As a Patient Care Technician, we are apart of the holistic care team. We must insure their safety and make them as comfortable as possible. That’s why I choose the medical field, I know I will have an impact on a lot of people’s lives.