A little variety

Today IT did not have anything for me to do so I was in the Oncology Center all day. My friend Scott has been out recovering from an injury so instead of working in the office I worked in the back of the oncology center with the patients. It was a great way to change thing up a little. I basically made sure all the patients were comfortable and gave them magazines. I also took care of ordering and delieveriy lunches. At the end of my shift I talked to my boss Terry about splitting up time between the office and working the patients.. she aaid that was something we could definitley try to work out so I'm pretty excited. I have no idea how long Scott will be out for but I'm glad I can fill in for him while he is recovering from his injury.

1st week of rotation one in review

Aside from initial job placement stress the first week of the first internship rotation of Project Seach went well. I am very excited for the weeks to come. I am splitting my time up between two different departments, IT on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the mornings and the Oncolgy Center front office on Monday Wednesday and Friday and Tues and Thursday afternoons. In the IT department I do data entry work and make sure that databases about the computer systems through out the hospital are up to date as well as get the mail. In the Oncology Center front office I do filing and also take the mail to the mail room and pick up the incoming mail and distribute it in the different doctor's mailboxes. The people in both departments are very nice. It's going to be a fun and busy ten weeks. Very well worth it. :)

Thinking aheas the the next rotation I already have a definite of my first choice for an internship site and that would be Marketing. It didn't pan out this time around because there wasn't enough work to do. If those don't end up working out my back up choices are either staying in the departments I'm in currently or working ih the Breast Center or at the Front Desk.

The snafu has passed

Okay so you're all probably wondering what I meant by a snafu in the process of finding an internship in my last entry Let me elaborate

I had an interview last week in the Pharmacy for the first round of internship. Based on the interview I thought it would work out fairly well. Part of my disability is a vision impairment and one thing I struggled with when I worked at Target last year was lining things up on the shelves neatly. My strengths mostly lie in data entry and computer work so I worked hard with the job trainers to find something else to do since I figured there might be a possibility the Pharmacy would not work out well for me. I am going to spliting up my first rotation between the Oncology Center Front Desk and the IT department doing data entry. I am excited and slightly less stresed because I didn't think I would find anything.

I look very foward to Monday and Tuesday.

A new blog for a new direction

Hello
My name is Janine Leffler. I am 25 years old and live in NH. I am currently involved in a job training program for young adults with disabilities called Project Search at St Joseph's Hospital in Nashua NH. The goal of this blog is to educate people about the program based on my experience and hopefullly get people interested in enrolling for next year.

I have been in Project Search for two weeks which has mainly consisted of orientatrion and getting acquainted with the layout of the hospital. We filled out surveys of interest in regards to what areas in the hospital we'd most like to work in. I have run into a small snafu with my job placement but I am working that out over the course of the next couple days. My main goal for being part of this program is to get full time work so I can move out and live on my own with in the next year. I also hope to get more public relations experience to add to ever growing resume. I think it is important for me to get public relations experience in other areas besides theatre because it will give me new insight to how a different professiom does public relations work.


I will update this blog as often as I can given my current computer isssues. I recently got a virus on my computer but hope to get that fixed soon

Thanks for following this blog!

Janine