Yesterday was my 5th Wednesday in Peamount Healthcare.I started off the day by working with one of the patients where I talked to her for a while and also did her nails for her.
In the afternoon,I worked with another patient where Roisin and I organised her photo albums for her and talked to her for an hour,until lunch time.
After lunch,I went to a sing-along with the patients.
I had a great day and I am really enjoying working with some of the service users in Peamount :)
Thursday, 7 February 2013
Sunday, 3 February 2013
Week 4
Yesterday was my 4th week in Peamount.I started off my day at 09:30 and I began photocopying and laminating sheets for my supriviser.
I then went to a talk about safety and hygiene around the hospital.I found this talk very interesting and learnt things about hygiene from it.
In the afternoon,I worked with a patient.I filed her nails for her and just talked to her and kept her company for a while.
In the evening I did more photocopying and laminating.It was a good day!
I then went to a talk about safety and hygiene around the hospital.I found this talk very interesting and learnt things about hygiene from it.
In the afternoon,I worked with a patient.I filed her nails for her and just talked to her and kept her company for a while.
In the evening I did more photocopying and laminating.It was a good day!
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Week 3
Yesterday was my third Wednesday in Peamount Healthcare.I started my day at 9:30 and the first job I did was photocopying and laminating sheets.I then learnt how to do a hand massage by one of the workers,and Lorna,Roisin and I had to practice doing these on each other.We were thaught how to do these incase we ever had to do a hand massage on a patient.
In the afternoon,I worked in the computer room.I had to type up a speech from one of Peamount's patients,it was a story she wrote herself and I really enjoyed listening to it and typing it up.
After lunch,I went to the music evening once again where I stayed beside two of the patients.They love the music and guitar and I am even coming familiar with the old songs now after a few weeks of listening to them!
I am looking forward to going back tomorrow :)
In the afternoon,I worked in the computer room.I had to type up a speech from one of Peamount's patients,it was a story she wrote herself and I really enjoyed listening to it and typing it up.
After lunch,I went to the music evening once again where I stayed beside two of the patients.They love the music and guitar and I am even coming familiar with the old songs now after a few weeks of listening to them!
I am looking forward to going back tomorrow :)
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Week 2!
Yesterday was my second Wednesday at work experience in Peamount Healthcare.I did most of the same things as I did last week but I still really enjoyed it.
I started off the morning by meeting new people and I was introduced to my second supriviser.I then met new service users for the first time and I went to Liffey Valley and went shopping with one of Peamounts patients.I had a great time getting to know the patient I was with for the day.
After spending time shopping,we went back to Peamount had our lunch and then had a music evening.I stayed beside one of the service users talking to her and making sure she was ok.
I had a great day and have met lots of lovely new patients and workers in Peamount.I am looking forward to next week.
I started off the morning by meeting new people and I was introduced to my second supriviser.I then met new service users for the first time and I went to Liffey Valley and went shopping with one of Peamounts patients.I had a great time getting to know the patient I was with for the day.
After spending time shopping,we went back to Peamount had our lunch and then had a music evening.I stayed beside one of the service users talking to her and making sure she was ok.
I had a great day and have met lots of lovely new patients and workers in Peamount.I am looking forward to next week.
Sunday, 13 January 2013
Work Experience Placement 2-Week 1
After spending a great 10 Wednesdays in a primary school for my first work experience placement,on Wednesday,I began my second work experience in Peamount Healthcare.
I was in Peamount at 9:30 where I was introduced to my 2 suprivisers for the eight Wednesdays I would be working in Peamount.I was brought to St.Kevins along with the two other girls doing work experience in Peamount and we were shown around the place and told about other Peamount Healtcare facilities.
On Wednesday we went to Liffey Valley with a few of the service users in Peamount.We travelled there on a bus where we were shown how to make sure they wheelchairs were properly secured while travelling on the bus.When we arrived I helped wheel the wheelchair around the shopping centre.
We then went back to Peamount where some of the sevice users were having a sing song my job was to stay beside the service users incase they needed anything.
I enjoyed my first day in Peamount and it was nice to meet the workers and service users of Peamount.I am looking forward to next week!
I was in Peamount at 9:30 where I was introduced to my 2 suprivisers for the eight Wednesdays I would be working in Peamount.I was brought to St.Kevins along with the two other girls doing work experience in Peamount and we were shown around the place and told about other Peamount Healtcare facilities.
On Wednesday we went to Liffey Valley with a few of the service users in Peamount.We travelled there on a bus where we were shown how to make sure they wheelchairs were properly secured while travelling on the bus.When we arrived I helped wheel the wheelchair around the shopping centre.
We then went back to Peamount where some of the sevice users were having a sing song my job was to stay beside the service users incase they needed anything.
I enjoyed my first day in Peamount and it was nice to meet the workers and service users of Peamount.I am looking forward to next week!
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Last day of work experience :(
Yesterday was unfourtanely my last weeek in Scoil Na Mainistreach Primary School,when I entered the school it hit me that it was the last wednesday I would be walking in the school doors for work experience,I loved the past 10 weeks,they flew by! Ilove working with people and being in the primary school was perfect for this!
I arrived in work experience at 08:55 and went straight into work.From 09:00 to 09:30 Aisling and I went to run the school shop for a while.Here some pupils wanted to buy some pencils,etc. was we gave it to them and took the money off them for the shop.
I then went back to the class I was in last week and helped in the library and then went back to their class where I helped with the art,they were making christmas trees so i helped them stick the paper on their tree and cut out stars for some boys who wanted it for the top of their Christmas tree.I also observed the work they were doing in Irish.
After lunch I did more photocoying for teachers and it was then time to leave :(
I was sad leaving as i loved working with the pupils,they were so nice and i got on well with alot of them,I said my thank you's to the staff and then it was time to leave after 10 great weeks!
I went into my work experience placement thinking,I would love to be a primary school teacher some day and now I am sure it is something I would love for my future career,I loved working with the pupils and staff they were all so friendly and welcoming.I will miss working in the primary school!I learnt alot from my experience and now have a better insight into what exactly is involved when you are a primary teacher. I am so grateful I had the oppurtunity to do my work experience in a primary school.
I arrived in work experience at 08:55 and went straight into work.From 09:00 to 09:30 Aisling and I went to run the school shop for a while.Here some pupils wanted to buy some pencils,etc. was we gave it to them and took the money off them for the shop.
I then went back to the class I was in last week and helped in the library and then went back to their class where I helped with the art,they were making christmas trees so i helped them stick the paper on their tree and cut out stars for some boys who wanted it for the top of their Christmas tree.I also observed the work they were doing in Irish.
After lunch I did more photocoying for teachers and it was then time to leave :(
I was sad leaving as i loved working with the pupils,they were so nice and i got on well with alot of them,I said my thank you's to the staff and then it was time to leave after 10 great weeks!
I went into my work experience placement thinking,I would love to be a primary school teacher some day and now I am sure it is something I would love for my future career,I loved working with the pupils and staff they were all so friendly and welcoming.I will miss working in the primary school!I learnt alot from my experience and now have a better insight into what exactly is involved when you are a primary teacher. I am so grateful I had the oppurtunity to do my work experience in a primary school.
Week nine!
Wednesday was my second last week in the primary school.I left for work experience at 08:45 and arrived at 09:00.
The first job i did today was helping the senior infant boys with their 'word box '.They read out each of their words and my job was to help them if they got stuck on a word and wrote down any word they didnt get for the teacher.
I then spent a few hours helping in 1st class.I firstly went to the library and helped them reading their book,after this i went back to their class and observed the lessons they had.They did Irish and Maths so i helped the pupils if they needed help.I also took down some posters from their wall and put up more.The teacher showed us how the interactive white board worked and spoke to us about the job as a primary school teacher job in general.It was very useful to hear about the job from a teacher's perspective.
After lunch i did some photocopying and laminating for teachers.
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