American Academy of Sports Medicine

ACSM

American Academy of Sports Medicine

I recently joined the American College of Sports Medicine. Becoming a student member of ACSM is a significant step in career development, promotion, reference building, and advancing my career as a future Strength and Conditioning Coach in the public service. After graduation I planned on going to achieve my master’s in Public Health Education, but during that time I want to be a personal trainer and exercise physiologist. What ACSM has to offer is many specialty certifications that can build my resume such as Certified Group Exercise Instructor, Health Fitness Specialist, Cancer Exercise Trainer, Certified Public Health Specialist, and Exercise Physiologist. Not only does the ACSM offer certifications that can help me get my foot in the door for my future career, but it also offers different conferences and online seminars for reference and network building to help in personal growth/career advancement. Seminars offered include the Summit Health & Fitness Exposition., ACSM Conference on Integrative Physiology of Exercise,and ACSM Annual Meeting, World Congress on Exercise is Medicine® and World Congress on the Basic Science of Exercise Fatigue. Overall being a student member in The American College of Sports Medicine will create future career growth and expand my knowledge on my lifelong craft.

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COOPER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
CRITICAL CARE-INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (40 plus hours a week)

I have been working full time as a Critical Care Technician full time at Cooper University hospital the past 3 years. My job duties include: EKG, Phlebotomy, CPR, Post Code Hypothermia, Arterial line Setups, Tracheotomy and Endoscopy procedure setups, and cardiac care. Being employed at Cooper pertains to my major and future goals as a Coach and Health Promoter in the public service because it gives me hands on experience working directly individuals in need. The Critical Care Unit at Cooper is for unstable patients in need of immediate procedures, or medications for their blood pressure to stabilize. Patients come in from all aspects and causes. Not only does this job relate to Health Promotion, but Cooper has many different community outreach and public health education programs that I could be a part of in the future. My long term goal is to be a full time teacher and strength coach for secondary education, but I am going to need to get my feet wet in order to get there. Having an occupation like this that shows I can work hands on directly with patients, work well under pressure/ great stress, and promote health and wellness for all individuals in need. Cooper also offers many different benefits and seminars for continuing education and promotions within for career advancement. Cooper Hospital is actually investing in me by giving me full tuition assistance to keep me in the hospital network after I graduate as my field is directly related to Cooper's mission for health and community wellness for the City of Camden.

NREMT-B & Barrington Ambulance

I am currently a part time employee at Barrington Ambulance Association. I have been employed there working as an emergency medical technician for 5 months. My job duties include providing basic life support to citizens of Barrington who are in need of emergency medical treatment. Also using the skills required of an EMT-B I am required to transfer care to a continuing care facility in a safe and professional manner without incident. I am certified nationally through the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians. This requires 72 hours of continuing education annually to keep my certification active and to keep my employment at Barrington. This job directly relates to my future career because of working directly with patients in need of care. Whether it is an emergency trauma call , or a leg injury that has yet to heal correctly, I am required to be treat symptoms accordingly and create a calm and safe environment for the patient. This relates to my future career as a Public Health Educator because I would be working directly with people with all sorts of health problems that range from the exact type of calls that I get working 911. Working as an EMT-B is ground zero of where acute health problems start so it gives me incite on how serious and potentially life threatening certain health issues can cause.

CONTINUING NURSING EDUCATION: STROKE ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT. (4 COURSES)

With my employment at Cooper they offer a variety of different continuing education opportunities to strengthen your resume and advance your career by becoming more marketable with specialized education. I took a 4 hour course on Stroke education, assessment, and treatment. This is a certified nursing board class that certifies me to be available to assess stroke symptoms and treat accordingly to my highest level of education in the medical field. This course relates to my future career as a public health educator because it gives me a firm grasp of the consequences of taking care of a patient who has a now or previous neurological injury or disability. Working directly with people who have these sort of symptoms can be very frustrating and you can feel like there is no way to communicate/understand. This course gave me the incite to be able to communicate with people who of had a previous stroke and treat them accordingly for example : washing, feeding, rehabbing, communicating, sympathizing, and recommending further dietary and physical therapy treatment plans. This was a very informative course that I would recommend to anyone who is entering a Health and Wellness field that wants to be able to work better with patients who have had previous neurological illnesses/injury.