Interview Questions

1. What is your full name?
His full name is Rowe Nacis.

2. Where are you from?
He is from St.Thomas U.S V.I.

3. Where did you go to college? For how long? Do you plan to go back to school?
He went to Monroe College for 3 years and he still plans to go back to school.

4. (If the interviewee went to college)…What was your major in college and what kind of degree do you earn?
He had earned a bachelors degree in Health Service Administration.

5. Why did you choose that field?
He had choosen this field becouse he likes to work in a health field.

7. Why did you choose this job?
He choose this job becouse he enjoys the technical aspect of fixing complex devices.

8. How long have you worked here?
He has worked at NYM for 4 months.

9. What is your job title?
His job title is Biomedical Technician.

10. What do your duties include? Or What kinds of work does your job involve?
His job envolves electrical safety tests, programing IV pumps, and fixing broken equiptment.

11. What are some of the challenges you have faced working here?
The challanges that he had faced were to learn how the eqiptment worked and how to fix it.

12. What is the best part of your job?
The best part of the job for him is learning how to fix and work with new hospital equiptent.

15. What do you see as your future with this company?
He sees himself as the future director of Biomedical Engineering.

FloorPlan

http://www.floorplanner.com/madmp8: Here is the link to the web site where you can view my completed floor plan of my office. Click on the side Biomed3 to view. Also i do not have a personal space where i work. I just sit where ever the space is free.

ASSIGNMENT Daily post synthesis

OLD: I do electrical safety test on medical equiptment which include: suction machines, IV pumps, diffibulators etc...

OLD: Walk upstairs on calls when people need help with different problems that they are having, with either computers or equiptment in general for example: call bells, nurse calls or faulty equiptment

NEW: So far i have not been assighned any new projects or duties what so ever, i do everything that i did before. I do everything the same day in and day out. Sync electric safety test to the server, do electric safety tests and go arround with a co worker on calls. Thats pretty much what i do, atleast now.

Weekly Vocab April 18

1. Word / Phrase: Prevaricate

Meaning:to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie

Context:SAT prep word

2. Word / Phrase: Incredulous

Meaning:not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical

Context:SAT prep word

3. Word / Phrase:Placate

Meaning:to appease or pacify, esp. by concessions or conciliatory gestures

Context:SAT prep word

4. Word / Phrase:Cognizant

Meaning:having cognizance; aware

Context:SAT prep word

5. Word / Phrase:Dissonance

Meaning: inharmonious or harsh sound; discord; cacophony

Context:SAT prep word

Daily Post April 17

Today they had assighned me the most monatonous assighment ever. It was to sort different kinds of bolts and screws into seperate piles going from their size to type. I thought i was going to lose my mind and to add to that the clock was going suspiciosly slow, or it was just me. Thank god the boxes were small so it did not take me to long, it was not too bad just anoying that all. Then once again it was that time of the day again=]

Daily Post 16

Today i did not do much exept just sit arround becouse it was a pretty slow day with nothing to do. I did not do anything today at all expet just walk out the office one time to go to the third floor. Then i just sat through the day and then it was that time of teh day again

Daily Post 15

Today i had walked into the office and they had asked me to go to weasley house appaerment aka storage room and get a printer out of there. Then when i brought the printer it had been the wrong one. Then i had to bring it back and tell you the truth it was a pain in the a$$. Then when i had brought the right one, they had give me more numbers to put into the computer and thats how i spent the rest of teh day.

Daily Post 14

I had gone to eat lunch and then i had walked into the office and they had given me 5 pages worth
of numbers and safety test numbers. Then i was just sitting the whole day putting the numbers intoi the server. Then it was that time of the day again, to LEAVE!!!!

Midpoint Reflection Question

How has the internship been the same as and/or different than your expectations?
My internship has been the same from the beggining to the present. It was ddiferent from my expectations becouse i thought that i would be just sitting in the office the whole time but now i just walk arround. It is pretty good and it had exeded my expectations.

What is similar and different about the culture of the school environment versus the workplace environment? What new skills have you learned that apply to the workplace?
There is only one things that is in commn with school and my internship place. The things that is in common is that there are alot of different cultures religions and they all co exist and respect each other, like we do here. The new skills that i have learned is to wok with different computer software and electronic devices. Also i had learned how to oparate some medical equiptment. Thats about ti for now, i hope i learn even more while i am there

What kind of relationship do you have with your mentor and co-workers? How have you grown as a result of interacting with professional adults?
I have a good relations ship with my mentor and my co workers. The co workets are very laid back and do their work seriously. They also can joke arround, exactly like me. I do my work and also can joke arround. We have grown as proffesional adults becouse we do what ever we have to do but its not all work work and work, it work and also talking and things like that. That makes for a better work enviorment.

What challenges at the internship have you faced that you have overcome and how did you overcome them?
The was no chalanges at my internship exept, finding my way arround the hospital. That is the only challange that i have
during the whole time i was at this internship site all other things are pretty easy for me. I over came this issue by just looking where i am going and remembering how to navigate.

What challenges have you faced in school as a result of the altered schedule and how are you handling them?
There was only one challanged that i have faced is the lack of time to do Hw and other things. I am handaling them by doing them as soon as they are assighned. THat i the only way i see how i can handle them.


What goals are you working to accomplish during the remainder of the internship?
I am only working on one goal in my internship . The only thing i want to accomplish, is to navigate through the hospital without getting lost or asking people for directions. That is the only goal i have for the remained of the internship.


What new things have you learned about New York City?
The thing that i have learned about new york city is that it is an intricate and complex place
with its own infrostructure and its own ways of doing things. Everything in New York city depends on something and that things depends on something else. Everyone woeks together to accomplish something and if you split those things up everything falls apart.

Weekly Vocabulary March 29

1. Word / Phrase: Condiment

Meaning:something used to give a special flavor to food, as mustard, ketchup, salt, or spices

Context: SAT Prep Words

2. Word / Phrase:integral

Meaning: necessary to the completeness of the whole

Context: SAT Prep Words

3. Word / Phrase: astute

Meaning: Of keen penetration or discernment

Context: SAT Prep Words

4. Word / Phrase: Petulant

Meaning: moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, esp. over some trifling annoyance

Context: SAT Prep Words

5. Word / Phrase: Contrite

Meaning: caused by or showing sincere remorse

Context: SAT Prep Words

February 15 Questions

February 15 Questions

FOR YOUR BLOG


-Tell a little about yourself
My name is sergey. I am originary from Latvia, Riga. I came here arround 5 years ago. I speak fluent russian and english.

-What did you learn in the junior internship seminar class up to this point?
I didnt not really learn much yet becouse we have just started it not a long time ago

-What is your greatest fear about internship? 
My greathest fear is that the intership will be very boring and not interesting at all. That kind of work makes me go insaene becouse i get bored very easily if i am not interested

-What is your greatest hope for the internship?
My hope for internship that i will get do to alot of cool things that will keep me interested over the period of time that i will be at that internship site

-What is your internship site and what are you going to do there? If you do not know, what do you think you will be doing?
 I will be working with medical equipment that is located all arround the hospital, and maybe doing some computer work that might be assighned to me

-What will you miss about going to high school as you normally did for the last 2.5 years?
I will miss the care free life style that I have now.

Daily Post April 2

Today was mostly as same as other days. I came in got dresed into my work clothes and went up to the fourth floor to assemble patient chairls with one of the people from the Bio Med department and i spend my whole day there. It was pretty complicated and there were four chairs to assemble. We assembled three chairs and one was left but i left becouse it was that time of the day again.

Weekly Vocabulary April 4

1. Word / Phrase: Acrimonious

Meaning: Caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech, behavior

Context: Test from SAT prep

2. Word / Phrase:Resilience

Meaning:the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity.

Context: Test from SAT prep

3. Word / Phrase:Analogy

Meaning:a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump.

Context: Test from SAT prep

4. Word / Phrase: Charlatan

Meaning:a person who pretends to more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; quack

Context:Test From SAT prep

5. Word / Phrase:Filch

Meaning:to steal (esp. something of small value)

Context:Test from SAT prep

Daily Post April 3

Today i barely did anything exept put in some information into themain server, and then went upstairs to finish safety tests on the rest of the new pumps that came in. After that i just delivered them to the NICU unit and then it was that time of the day again.

Daily Post April 1

Today was not a productive day. I did mostly nothing today, i just learned how to operate the new IV pumps that came in to the hospital and then the rest of the time i spent testing them. The testing went slow, becouse the pumps operate slower than the other IV pumps so it was more sitting than actual work going on. Either way the time passed fairly quick

Daily Post March 31

 When i came in to the office it was full of IV pumps, one person was doing safety test in it and i was just walking arround and putting them in one room for storage. There they are going to sit until, all of them will go through a practice run. Then i went to a storage room across the street and did organazing there till the end of the day.

Daily Post 27

Today we serviced an operating table but i was not really involved becouse that was the first time i was doing that kind of thing. Then i was carrying a couple of things arround the hospital to different departments. I was kinda got lost, becouse it is like a maze in there and i took the wrong elevator and ended up in another place and it took me a couple of minutes to figure out where i was, so that was kind of funny.

Daily Post 26

 Today was the most interesting day of all. I got to go into the Operating room to watch open heart surgery. It was the most interesting thing that i got to see the last 4 years i was here. I like to call it a unique opertunity, becouse not alot of people get to see that kind of thing so that was pretty good. Then after i got to work on a hospital server,i just had to format the drives that was pretty much it. Then it was that time of the day, to go home.

Daily Post 25

 Today i did not really do anything exept regular testing that i ussualy do. In general the day went pretty slow and most of the time i spent in the biomed office. I also put some Id tags on some equiptment. That was pretty much my whole day

Daily Post 24

I did a couple things today. I tested some equpment, and solidified the way of how to do it. Discovered a couple of different rooms where they keep dead people. I might also soon go into the operating room to see an open heart surgery. I really looking forward to that.

Weekly Vocanb March 21

1. Word / Phrase: E.R - Emergency Room

Meaning:a hospital area equipped and staffed for the prompt treatment of acute illness, trauma, or other medical emergencies

Context: Seen it on the sighns in the hospital

2. Word / Phrase: O.R- Operating Room

Meaning:a specially equipped room, usually in a hospital, where surgical procedures are performed.

Context: Seen it on the sighns in the hospital

3. Word / Phrase: I.C.U- Intensive care unit

Meaning: A unit where doctors keep a close eye on you if you are in a critical condition

Context: Seen it on a sighnh at the hospital

4. Word / Phrase: Dialysis

Meaning:(in kidney disease) the process by which uric acid and urea are removed from circulating blood by means of a dialyzer. When a persons kidney fails they put them on dialysis to filter their blood

Context: Seen it on a sighn

5. Word / Phrase: Infusion pump

Meaning: a device that releases a measured amount of a substance in a specific period of time

Context: We have to collect all the old Infusion Pump all arround the hospital.

Third Week Assighment

Describe one significant activity or project that you have completed or are working on currently.
As amazing as it sounds, there is not alot of things that i can just sit and work on, matter of fact there is mostly none. Everyday i do something different but most of the time i just walk arround with one of the people from biomed and just look at what they are doing and assist them in anything they might ask me. While they are wroking on something they explain what thay are doing and how it all works and comes together. Mostly all i do is walk arround and see how everything works and things like that. The reason why i dont do anything on my own yet, well most of the time there are no things that i can work on by myself and another is becouse mostly there things that happen are little things, like fixing a call bell in a patients room, or even better collecting old pumps from all over the hospital and even that i have to be with someone. In general there are no projects to work on individualy, since internship started i just been walking arround the hospital and testing medical equiptment for electrical safety and to see if they function properly.

Second Week Assighment 2

What did you do during your second week?
My second week was not so different from the other. The only thing thathave changed is i got to meet more of the staff of bio med and see more places arround the hospital. I got to see the morgue and the operating room and emergency room and things like that.


How was it different than the first week?
The second week was not different at all from the first week i was doing the samethings just seeing more of the hospital
and what goes on at the NYM

What is something that you really like about the internship?
The thing that i like most about my internship is that you get to walk arround alot and see what actualy goes on in a hospital. I also like that i get to work with all these machines that see kinda weired at times. Also the thing that i like most is that i work in a relaxed setting not alot of stress and rushing arround all over the place.


What is something you dislike about the internship?
The only thing that i deslike about my internship is you have to dress up proffesionaly but i guess its ok becouse after all its a hospital.


Who else's blog have your read and commented on?
I did not comment on anyones profile yet but i wil.

The End of the First Week of Internships

Please describe your internship site by answering the following questions...


What is it? My internship is at NYM, i work in Biomedical Engineering. Bsicly what i do is watch the Biomed employes on what they are doing and as they do it they explain it. After that i do it myself with them watching over me.

What kind of business is it and what kind of work do the professionals do there? The work that thay do there is test medical equiptment for electrical safety and anyother problems it might have. In general they fix all medical equitpment that belongs to NYM

Where is it? My internship is in the New-York Methodist Hospital at 503 506 Sixth Street

Brooklyn, NY 11215


Tell a little about your mentor. I dont know much about my mentor, becouse i dont talk to her alot. She is nice but she can be very strict at times, but that is a good thing becouse if you are too nice people might taka advantage of you.

What happened on the first day? Nothing happened on the first day exept we got our Photo Ids and then we had to go home becouse we did not have the proper clothes to start working, so i was kinda pissed off becouse i was looking forward to starting the internship already.

What kinds things have you done so far? The only things that i have done so far is test medical equitpment for electrical safety and proper functioning. Logged all the test that were do into the NYM database and i was shown arround the hospital where everything is located etc... I also learned what each machine does and what kinds of place and purpuse it had in the Hospital.

What were some of the highlights of the first week? (Memorable moments, cool things...)
The really good thing about my internship is that i work with really layback people, they do the work that thay need to do, but in the procces they talk and discuss things and it is nice.They talk about funny things that happen to them. I general a very nice working atmosphere. It is much better than sitting in an office and just doing paper work



Please answer some logistical questions...

When do you leave school? I leave from school arround 11:45. I have lunch and then i leave

How long does it take you to get to your internship? It takes me arround 40 to 50 minutes to get to the internship and sighn in and go to my work place

When do you arrive at home? When i come home from the internship it is arround 5:20

What is your schedule? (What days do you work and for how long each day?) I work 3 hours a day and 4 days a week

Who are the two people that can sign your time card? (Your mentor and the additional person)
The people who sighn my card are Steve the person in Bio Med and the administrator who hired me.