{"id":30,"date":"2021-10-09T21:30:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T21:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/draft-health101\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2021-10-17T12:54:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T12:54:28","slug":"my-major","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mhast004hlth101\/my-major\/","title":{"rendered":"My Major"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Major: <\/strong>Ever since I was little, my dream has been to become a nurse in the United States Navy. I&#8217;ve always loved helping those in need, and the ability to assist people of all cultures while simultaneously defending this country is one of the greatest opportunities a person can possess. By attending Old Dominion University as a nursing major, I hope to expand my knowledge of the profession and learn what it takes to become a servicewoman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mhast004hlth101\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26314\/2021\/10\/navy-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Experience: <\/strong>In order to prepare myself for the nursing program, I not only participated in various volunteer engagements through my local church, but also provided care for patients at the Wilbraham Life Care Center as well as Baystate Medical Center, a hospital located in Springfield, Massachusetts. These organizations taught me valuable lessons in collaboration and proper patient care, as well as the importance of giving back to local communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The chart below provides a list of tasks I performed at each institution:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\"><table class=\"has-subtle-pale-pink-background-color has-fixed-layout has-background\"><thead><tr><th>Baystate Medical Center<\/th><th>Wilbraham Life Care Center<\/th><th>Volunteering at St. Cecelia&#8217;s<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>*Clocked patients in and out of the hospital.<br>*Filed\/organized patient folders.<br>*Cleaned hospital beds and infusion chairs.<br>*Shadowed nurses that drew blood\/administered IV fluids.<br>*Attended floor meetings.<br>*Scheduled infusion appointments.<br>*Wheeled patients around the hospital. <br><br><br><br><br><\/td><td>*Organized weekly bingo games.<br>*Gave food\/water to hungry senior citizens.<br>*Helped elderly individuals play bingo\/manage bingo chips.<br>*Organized fun holiday activities for residents.<br>*Wheeled patients around the complex.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><\/td><td>*Purchased groceries for struggling families of four.<br>*Helped organize an ice cream social at a soldier&#8217;s home in Springfield, Massachusetts.<br>*Altar-served for priests from sixth-twelfth grade.<br>*Cleaned pews before and after holiday masses.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major: Ever since I was little, my dream has been to become a nurse in the United States Navy. I&#8217;ve always loved helping those in need, and the ability to assist people of all cultures while simultaneously defending this country is one of the greatest opportunities a person can possess. By attending Old Dominion University&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mhast004hlth101\/my-major\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":22135,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mhast004hlth101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mhast004hlth101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mhast004hlth101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mhast004hlth101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mhast004hlth101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mhast004hlth101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mhast004hlth101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mhast004hlth101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}