Stepping up my game

Happy 2011

Snow days have thrown me off my groove a bit. So far we have had four of them and supposedly there is another stom coming on Tuesday night into Wednesday. As you would imagine last week was a pretty short week. Monday was Martin Luther King Day then Monday night into Tuesday we got a storm snow day 3. 1 and 2 occured Wednesday and Thursday of the previous week. Friday was snow day #4.

Enough about the weather which is getting tedious instead of delightful.

The second rotation got slightly extended while the job trainers start doing research for departments that are hiring for the third and final rotation cycle of the year. I want to get a jump start with the job shadowing process so I can get an idea of what departments I want to interview for. Based on my experiences in the past two interview cycles I know what places would work well for me for an internship and which places would not. However, now that we are nearing the third and final rotation we need to start thinking about which department would best fit us for a job. My data entry skills are the primary skil set I want to focus on. I am also really good on the phone too. I am gaining a lot more phone skills in Cardiac Rehab Center then I did when I was in the Oncology Center.

Speaking of Cardiac Rehab everything has been going splendidly there. I am really enjoying it a lot and will miss it when I leave at the beginning of March. The most interesting thing I have been leaning is about the diffrent kinds of heart disease and the diffrent ways they are treated. I have learned this by filling out the patient discharge forms. I am also learning about where different areas of the hospital are where I never knew about. I run errands a lot of the time when there is not a lot of data entry to do and also label new patient charts.

As far as next rotation goes I have thought about where I want to work and my top two choices are patient registration and the front desk. Other than that I am not really sure which other deparments will have open positions that will best fit my skill set. We shall see.