PRACTICUMpracticumHOSPITALhospital....Medical social work!
I'm still at the hospital. Granted, I was able to actually finish seeing patients and doing chart documentation at five tonight, but I've been here ever since writing a midterm assignment that was due today for social work (Note to self: Lol, it wouldn't be for any other class Molly, you're not taking any classes this semester except the seminar for social work practicum. Who are you trying to fool? Social work isn't taking over your life yet, is it?).
I'm assuming that all will be well with this assignment; I feel good about how it turned out, even though it's the first of at least three (I have two more left to write before the end of the semester) process recordings I'll ever write in my social work career. Process recordings are something that many graduate school programs of social work are incredibly impressed by, and if a student is able to produce a couple to the admissions office of graduate programs, he or she is much more likely to get in. So, St. Olaf, being cool and amazing and wonderful, has social work majors write these pain-in-the-butt process recordings. They are incredibly detailed to write and they take a long time to finish, but writing mine was pretty helpful to me.
Here's the thing: All the senior social work majors have assignments due this semester on non-class days. We're supposed to turn these assignments in by e-mail to our professor. Valerie, our wonderful professor, never mentioned that there was a certain time of day or night that we needed to be e-mailing these assignments to her by. I didn't get this assignment finished last night (because I had another make-up paper due today as well because I was sick on the day of a field trip in September), so I planned to turn it in by 11:59 tonight. This would ensure that I was still turning the assignment in on the due date.
I'm hoping that by turning in an assignment by e-mail on the day it's due, before the due date goes by, will be okay. Turning in assignments late sucks. Valerie can't possibly say that we needed to have the assignment e-mailed to her by five tonight or something, right?
My life IS social work this semester. I practically eat, breathe, sleep, and play social work. It's gotten to the point that I'm doing homework and finishing assignments for practicum while I eat dinner, which happens right after I arrive back from doing practicum in the evening, at around 7 each night. After dinner, I get involved in a conversation with at least one person about how my day went, and after that I'm so exhausted I need to go to sleep. It's lather, rinse and repeat for this girl, but I'm learning a TON about how to be a medical social worker. Practicum is amazing. There's no way to really learn how to be a social worker without actually doing it yourself. Books can't teach exactly how each hospital in the world helps patients leave the hospital. Only experience teaches that.
I'm assuming that all will be well with this assignment; I feel good about how it turned out, even though it's the first of at least three (I have two more left to write before the end of the semester) process recordings I'll ever write in my social work career. Process recordings are something that many graduate school programs of social work are incredibly impressed by, and if a student is able to produce a couple to the admissions office of graduate programs, he or she is much more likely to get in. So, St. Olaf, being cool and amazing and wonderful, has social work majors write these pain-in-the-butt process recordings. They are incredibly detailed to write and they take a long time to finish, but writing mine was pretty helpful to me.
Here's the thing: All the senior social work majors have assignments due this semester on non-class days. We're supposed to turn these assignments in by e-mail to our professor. Valerie, our wonderful professor, never mentioned that there was a certain time of day or night that we needed to be e-mailing these assignments to her by. I didn't get this assignment finished last night (because I had another make-up paper due today as well because I was sick on the day of a field trip in September), so I planned to turn it in by 11:59 tonight. This would ensure that I was still turning the assignment in on the due date.
I'm hoping that by turning in an assignment by e-mail on the day it's due, before the due date goes by, will be okay. Turning in assignments late sucks. Valerie can't possibly say that we needed to have the assignment e-mailed to her by five tonight or something, right?
My life IS social work this semester. I practically eat, breathe, sleep, and play social work. It's gotten to the point that I'm doing homework and finishing assignments for practicum while I eat dinner, which happens right after I arrive back from doing practicum in the evening, at around 7 each night. After dinner, I get involved in a conversation with at least one person about how my day went, and after that I'm so exhausted I need to go to sleep. It's lather, rinse and repeat for this girl, but I'm learning a TON about how to be a medical social worker. Practicum is amazing. There's no way to really learn how to be a social worker without actually doing it yourself. Books can't teach exactly how each hospital in the world helps patients leave the hospital. Only experience teaches that.