The capstone project consisted many components. For the physical part of my project I shadowed a dental assistant. Dental health is often a part of health people tend to ignore. People don't realize that our oral health is just as important as our are physical health and overall health. Many times people don't go to the dentist for the simple fact that they don't think it's as important as going to the doctors. Other times many people struggle to obtain health care because it's so expensive. The moment I realize how important dental oral health was, all I pictured was a homeless person smiling with a bunch of missing teeth. Living on the streets leaves you vulnerable to a number of diseases. Coming up with a topic wasn't the hardest component of this project, but its a bit overwhelming trying to make something like health risks homeless people face so broad.
The hardest part on completing this project was the paper. Although completing my hours was a struggle the paper really had me stressed. The organization of my paper was hardest component. I felt like I had so much information that it was overwhelming trying to make everything flow. I ended up organizing it with each paragraph falling into the other. My first paragraph was about what causes homlessness, second paragraph was about the dangers on living on the streets, the third was about diseases they face living on the streets, the fourth was what about why it's hard for them to obtain health care and the last was about what is currently being done to help them get health care. Completing my hours was another obstacle I had to face. Even though we did have a lot of time to complete them. I had decided to finish them during spring break, but I ended up getting a job and worked the days my mentor was available. Each week I would hope there would be a day I didn't work and my mentor available. But there never was. I had gone to full days, and I had 18 hours..I needed to go one more time and I was done. I haf received a letter from the school saying I was a traunt, so i was unable to miss school a lot. I wasn't so concerned about missing my other classes, but I had 19 absences in my first period after 20 i was dropped. So I ended up going to first only and completing the rest of my hours.
Although completing specific parts of the capstone project seemed impossible. Overall I'm pretty happy that we have this project. It helped me realize that I do not want to become a dental assistant. I'm thankful that I will not go into college and major in something that I can't picture doing for the rest of my life. There wasn't a specific moment I can think of where I realize that this isn't what I want to do, but seeing my mentor be so passionate about her job really made me wonder. I want to wake up everyday and be satisfied with what I'm doing. My mentor has been in this field for 6 years now and she still trying further her abilities. I know if I were to become part of this field I would be absolutely miserable. So I'm going to follow my dreams and become a cosmetologist. There salary may not be as much as a dental assistant, but I rather be doing something I love, then be doing something I hate the for the rest of my life.
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