INTERNSHIP GOALSAlexis Georgia

Learning Goals & ObjectivesDuring my first week of internship at Clemson-Seneca Pediatrics I outlined six goals that I wished to accomplish before my time at the site was through. The following slides depict the goals I set for myself and how I was able to achieve them.

Health Assessment GoalsBy the end of my fieldwork experience, I will be able to conduct vision and hearing exams without help.

One of the nurses, Erica Thrift, showed me how to conduct the various vision screenings for different age groups and the hearing screening during my second week at my internship. Because we conduct these screenings quite regularly she demonstrated how to administer each test on a patient first, allowed the other intern and myself to practice on each other, and then watched us conduct the tests on patients until she was confident we could conduct each test without her help.

Health Assessment GoalsBy the end of my fieldwork experience, I will be able to conduct a strep test.

My preceptor, Melanie Harris, taught me how to conduct a strep test. My first strep test was conducted on an teenage patient. I had watched the nurses conduct step tests before and my preceptor decided I was ready to try it myself. She explained the proper technique to me, and after I swabbed the patients throat, she walked me through running a rapid strep test.

Health Planning Goal By the end of my internship, I will be able to complete all client intake forms, lab order forms, and lab results forms.

I was shown how to work the electronic chart system very first week of my internship. Because the charting was hard to get the hang of at first, all of the nurses helped show me where the correct forms were and which boxes I needed to check. This goal I had to learn the most rapidly because it was used for every patient that walked through our doors. I was able to accomplish this goal through practice, repetition, and the patience of the nurses teaching me.

Implementation Goal By the end of my internship, I will be able to conduct an 18-year-old well visit without a visual aid.

This goal took the longest for me to master. In each well child check there is a list of very specific questions we must ask, and they are different at each age. I began by asking questions without looking at the list. After asking all the questions I could remember I would pull out the list and asking the ones I had missed, until eventually I did not miss any questions.

Evaluation GoalBy the end of my fieldwork, I will be able to understand how Clemson Pediatrics evaluates the effectiveness of ADD medication in patients.

To achieve this goal I began by conducting ADD consult intakes and charting. Whenever I would work up an ADD consult the patients parent would hand me a Vanderbilt assessment form. Another nurse, Corbrina Pinson, then showed me how to grade the form and what each score meant in regards to how effective the patients medication was.

Affective GoalBy the end of my internship, I will be able to communicate how I feel about pursuing a career in pediatrics.

Through talking to the doctors and nurses about their experiences in pediatrics, the reasons they chose pediatrics in the first place, and drawing on my own experience while at CSP I was able to realize that I would love to pursue a career in pediatrics. Each day I left the office feeling accomplished and like I made a difference in a patients life, and that is the reason I wanted to go into the medical field in the first place.