My Volunteer Experience at a Nursing Home

Until a couple of years ago, I did not think that my grandparents were in a special nursing home for the elderly. I was very fortunate to be able to make them healthy. But when my grandfather suffered a stroke, this situation changed a year ago. Looking at the interactions between my family and my grandfather, I realized how nursing care and services the elderly need, and I realized how important it is to volunteer at a local sanatorium. My grandfather 's stroke affected his legs and memories, which made him difficult to walk.

I started volunteering for the first time at the local special nursing home for nursing home memory care center, so I can gain experience of health management, but now it is more than just passive experience. Most residents are developing Alzheimer's disease or dementia. Many of them can live in anxiety and depression. When we collaborated more frequently, Ada began to know me, but she could not form a new memory. She always painted herself together and expressed her appreciation for helping her complete the activities of the day. As far as I can remember, she finds that she can offer a lot of things. She can not convey information through the memory of her compassion and passion.

The experience of volunteering at a sanatorium in Germany shows the decisive role that travel plays in my life. For example, I was working as a volunteer at a local hospital in New York, but I was not satisfied. The dream of seeing a doctor or obstetrician at an obstetric hospital in the obstetric ward has been replaced by the reality that samples of urine and feces are brought into the laboratory immediately. There is little contact with patients, so it is neither informative nor appealing for me to touch clinical medicine in such a situation. However, in Heidelberg I frequently exchange diapers for urinary incontinence, occasionally violent elderly people, but I like going to nursing home twice a week. Here, I feel that I want it. Such good satisfaction attracted my medical habits.

Understand the healthcare business. Your experience should indicate that you understand careers in the medical field as a volunteer activity at a hospital, clinic, nursing home, or research assistant. You should have various experiences, but they do not seem to be chosen in a random or arbitrary way. Ability to balance school and other activities. The most important thing is not to excessively expand ourselves, it is not to affect the academic record. Candidates are selected based on the entire profile of candidates (undergraduate and / or postgraduate records, entrance exam scores, personal characteristics, recommendation letters, and experience).