Clinical Experiences
June 2023 – August 2023
June 2024 – August 2024
Adventist Health Simi Valley Hospital, CA
Worked in Telemetry, Medical Surgical, Radiology and ICU departments
Assisted with basic patient care tasks such as vital signs, feeding, bathing, changing, and ambulating patients
Worked alongside nurses, physicians, and other key players in the care delivery team and watched their decision making skills and attention to detail
Watched special procedures, such as endoscopies, bronchoscopies, stroke protocol, and many others
June 2023 – August 2023
June 2024 – August 2024
Life Enrichment Volunteer
Helped devlop and maintain quality of life, emotionally, physically, socially, and spiritually, for senior residents
Made rounds on residents’ rooms to ensure their well-being and to converse with them
Worked with life enrichment coordinators to host activities and hand out daily newsletters to residents
Research Experiences
September 2022 – may 2023
SEPTEMBER 2024 – CURRENT
Health and Human Physiological Sciences Research Assistant
Health and Human Physiological Sciences Department at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Assisting Professor TH Reynolds in conducting experiments and set up
Testing the effects of glucagon on young and aged mice, along with high-fat diet mice
Injecting mice with somatostatin to inhibit pancreatic hormone release and inject glucagon to test glucose in mice using glucagon tolerance tests
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