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11 Reasons Why I Chose A Career In Becoming A Health Care Professional

12 Thursday Feb 2015

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When we decide to choose what career path to take, we blend our hobbies and interests to choose a career most compatible for us.

I find writing to not only be one of hobbies, but more of my getaway – my comfort, relief, and protection. It’s helped me develop a sense of trust within myself and given me the confidence and ability to develop that trust with others by sharing part of myself – my experiences, lessons, optimism, and morale of wellness and improving your overall quality of life, with the community.

It has motivated me to get into a field where I can directly incorporate those words and feelings into actions with my future patients.

The healthcare profession is one of the biggest and rapidly growing fields today. Apart from my love of writing, there are several other reasons that sparked my interest in becoming a health care professional. Here are eleven of them:

1) Understanding the Patient Perspective

Most of us have been patients before getting into the health-care profession. We know that we want our health care professionals to be empathic, make us feel comfortable, and develop a trusting relationship with us. Knowing how it feels to be a patient yourself is what makes us understand the patient perspective and treat patients more like people.

 2) Job Growth and Stability

Because health is crucial to every single individual, health care professionals are high in demand. The country’s population is aging and more Americans are in need of continued medical care than ever before.

 3) Knowledge Expansion

As health care professionals, we provide knowledge to our patients about medicine and health care so that they will feel empowered as opposed to feeling like they cannot provide medical care for their own community.  Regardless of personal circumstances, the people that we are helping are capable people, but some have not had the same opportunities.  The reality is that, even though people currently have more access to health care, the needs of certain communities are still not being met. It’s important to give back, especially to underprivileged communities, in hope that it becomes a chain reaction and healthcare knowledge can spread to other parts of our world.

 4) Team Work

Every single member of the health care profession contributes to a portion of care, whether it be big or small. All members of the patients’ multidisciplinary health team work together to provide the patient with the best holistic care (physical, emotional, spiritual) available. Whether you plan, assess, treat, or deliver the actual care to the patient – you are still working as part of a team to deliver high quality care to the patient to improve their overall quality of life.

5) Respect in Society

The reason why people respect health care professionals is because they contribute their life towards serving others. They respect their patients. The thing is, our patient’s feelings might mean nothing to us, but it means everything to them and because of that very reason, we care to listen to what they have to say, and really do our best to meet their needs.

6) Excitement and Variation

Healthcare is fast paced and incredibly varied. You will deal with many different circumstances, situations and people; each of these is unique. You will always be on your toes because you never know what is going to happen!

7) Ability to Travel

You get the opportunity to travel anywhere. You can relocate easily because health care is in demand all over the world!

8) Meeting New People

As a health care professional, you meet new people every single day. It is exciting to gain perspective and insight, especially from someone who thinks differently than you do. It’s phenomenal to hear the experiences that people have had and how it has shaped them to become the person they are today. We might be helping them, but little do they know that they are helping us to become more understanding, empathic, compassionate, selfless, and well rounded individuals who strive to make the world a better and healthier place.

9) Emotionally Rewarding and Internally Satisfying

Being a health care professional is an emotionally rewarding career. Although it can be a very demanding profession, you will get the internal satisfaction of helping people improve their overall quality of live by providing them with efficient care. This also means you also have the opportunity to interact with people on a daily basis and really develop a strong relationship with them.

10) The Ability to Make a Difference

You can make the most difference while being in the health care profession. This is simply because you are working with and for others. Even a simple interaction can make all the difference in the world. You could help bring a new life into the world, or save a life from ending. You have the ability to change lives.

11) The Challenge

Being in the health care profession can be a stressful and challenging job. I want the healthy stress, and I want the challenges that each patient and situation brings forth. I want the personal interaction. I want the ups and downs, and everything in between because for me, no other profession offers me the opportunity to thrive in a challenging work environment, while simultaneously valuing empathy.

9 Lessons We Can Learn From Old People

27 Tuesday Jan 2015

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Everyone gets to be young, but not everyone gets to be old. As time goes by, we all age; we get weaker and more disease prone. Have you ever noticed in this generation, more so, that we disrespect elderly people or find them a nuisance to deal with? In traditional cultures, elders are honored and respected. It seems like in this day and age, people are addicted to the illusion that we can maintain our youth indefinitely; we simply don’t like the reminders that we are getting older.  For me, personally, older people serve as role models for the younger generation because they simply know more about life than we do. They have already crossed the phase of life that we are going through right now, yet people seem to be overlooking the importance of old people in our society. Here are nine lessons that can be learned from old people:

1. Just be yourself

Old people know who they are. They do whatever they want and get away with it simply because they have lived enough life to know that they don’t need to impress anyone. We don’t need to wait our whole lives to just be ourselves.

2. Genuine Wisdom

Old people give you advice for the sole purpose and intent of helping you. They care and want to help you out because they have also learned and gone through enough of life to give you advice and genuine wisdom.

 3. Love

You learn a lot about life the longer you live, and even more about love. I am just 23 years old, but the reason I know this is because I’ve seen this love in almost every older person I’ve encountered. They’ve been through enough to value love and share it with others.

4. Experience

We are all different and each of us has a unique life. Think for a moment about what has happened in your life so far. Now multiple that by at least 50 and you’ll eventually begin to see the value in an elder’s life experience. Old people have grown making many mistakes and facing consequences for them. They can teach you how to avoid the mistakes that they made so you may not have to go through the same experience.

 5. Priorities

Old people guide you in planning your life out because they already know what should be set as a priority and what shouldn’t be. It may get irritating, but the thing is that they have already faced the things which you are going through now and have attained so much knowledge about them with age. We tend to make social media our priority, when maybe we should reconsider and make the people we love our priority.  Think about the fact that they didn’t have Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.  Props to them.

6. Perspective

I absolutely love listening to old people ramble about some amazing incidents in their journey of life. It gives me so much insight of lifestyle in their time. It is helpful knowing why things are the way they are in their present time; it gives perspective.

7. Family values

When you look at old people, you learn about family values such as respect, honesty, and forgiveness. These values you learn from them will help you to solidify your personal family bonds as well as teach you the importance of cherishing your loved ones.

8. Acceptance

Old people are way better at accepting difficult situations and disappoints in life. They simply know that life must go on. They help you cultivate acceptance despite the mishaps that come your way.  After all, they made it this far, and all they want is the same for you.

9) We are only getting older.

You need to realize that one day, if you are lucky, you might be in their shoes. This is why I stress to treat them with the same love and respect that you would want to be treated when you get older. If you are one of those people that disrespects your elders, finds them annoying, or thinks they are a burden to your life, maybe you should re-evaluate yourself and the kind of person you are. Sad to say, but you’ll only know how it feels if and when your time comes. I know myself, and I have the upmost love and respect for all my elders. I want to recognize and celebrate their sophistication and foresight to this journey of life. We are so busy growing up that we tend to overlook the fact that others are growing old. As I grow older, I hope I’m fortunate enough to show off my wrinkles – to show everyone how happy I am, what I made it through, and how wise these old people have made me.