Pre-Med Junior Fieldwork Reflection Writing:  

 
Name​: 
Aryanna Campa 
 
A/B Day:  
A day  
 
Advisory Teacher:  
Mrs.Keeble 
 
Fieldwork Location:  
Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital  
 
 
PREPARING FOR YOUR VISIT:  
Complete this section ​before​ you go on your fieldwork trip. If you do not know about the 
organization, please research and include your research findings below. 
 
 
1. What do you know of the location you will be visiting? What services does the 
organization provide?  
What I know is that this hospital is a catholic hospital but is open to anyone no matter 
religion. And I know I was born at this hospital. Services that the hospital provides:  
● Bariatric Surgery
● Breast Cancer Program
● Cancer Prevention & Treatment
● Cardiac Care
● Childbirth
● Children's Health
● Emergency Services
● Heart
● Home
● Hospice Care
● Hospitalists
● Injury Prevention
● Intensive Care Nursery
● Joint Replacement
● Maternity
● Mental Health
● Newborns
● Obstetrics
 ● Orthopedic Services
● Palliative Care
● Pregnancy
● Rehabilitation
● Spine Care
● Spiritual Care
● Stroke Care
● Trauma Care
● Urgent Care
● Vascular Services
● Wellness Centers
● Wellness Centers
● Women's Health
● Work Healthy Live Healthy 
 
2. If you are visiting a specific department within the agency, what is that department's 
primary focus?  
 
I am visiting the ICU(​intensive care unit) the main focus of the ICU is to help those who are 
seriously ill and require ​intensive ​treatment and close monitoring, or if they're having 
surgery and ​intensive care​ can help them recover.  
 
3. What is the public health function the organization/agency addresses?  
(Assessment, Policy Development, Assurance) 
The public health function the organization addresses is “We bring people together to 
provide compassionate care, promote health improvement, and create healthy 
communities.” 
 
 
4. What preconceived ideas (personal bias) do you have about the location you will be 
visiting? 
 
I think there will be many people with tubes connected to them laying in bed, the ICU 
may either be slow or something may happen such as someone goes into distress, heart 
rate going up, someone waking up with all the tubes and wondering what happened.  
  
 
 
 
​ URING YOUR VISIT - OBSERVATION: 
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Review the prompts i​ n advance​ and take a small notebook on your fieldwork visit. You should 
be taking notes on each of these topics so you will be able to add your observations ​after you 
return.  
Close Read your Surroundings:  
Observe the physical space and "read" them as if close reading a text. Pay attention to: 
● sensory details 
● signs posted 
● languages you hear 
● colors of the offices and uniforms.  
● does the location have a certain smell? 
● what sounds do you hear?  
Observations: 
I saw a lot of hand sanitizer stations, washing stations, gloves,carts, waste trash, monitors/ 
machines to help a patient such as a kidney machine helps to clean the blood out, green, 
tan,white, wood colors, It was quit but you hear the nurses at the nurse station talking with 
each other or other nurses working with their co-workers talking and updating each other 
so everyone is on the same page  
 
 
Observe your Emotional Response: ​Take notice of your reactions (emotional and physical) 
to different things and reflect on why you might be reacting this way.  
 
Observations: :Nervous/ amazed because the nurse I was shadowing was taking blood 
test of the patient and needed to take them to the labs and she asked me to take the 
blood samples to the labs by myself and to make sure that the labs get taken to the STAT 
basket because they needed to get the results in fast to began a procedure. I was nervous 
because well the labs were all on me she was trusting someone she doesn't know very 
well and I did not want to mess anything up but it was amazing because I got to walk to 
the lab room by myself and when I went into the lab room it was really cool to see 
everyone looking through the microscopes  
 
Ask questions of the person you’re shadowing and/or the industry people you encounter:  
- general questions of interest 
- relating to your potential career choices 
- public health related issues and challenges they see as important to consider.  
 
Record your questions and answers here. 
 
Observations: What have you been exposed to while working here? “Everything like HIV, 
TB, I have been exposed to a good amount since I have been working”  
How long have you worked here? “10 year”other response “40+ years” 
What is your favorite thing about working in the ICU? “I like it because as a nurse you have 
a different view than most doctors because you spend so much more time with patients 
than a doctor does so you are able to solve what is wrong, it's like solving a mystery”  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Summary Reflection   
After your return from your fieldwork experience address each prompt below to capture your 
thoughts on your experience.  
 
Reflect on specific highlights or observations from the day. What was a lesson (big or small) 
you took away from your experience? . Consider lessons that presented themselves in both 
positive and negative ways.  
Reflection: What i took from my experience is that the ICU is not something I am 
interested in as a field to work in. I found that is something that does not interest me, so 
at least I was able to see and experience what a nurse does for a patient and what they 
do in the ICU. A positive highlight is that when I walked into the lab room by myself and 
delivered labs and I really liked the vibe i there and it seems very interesting so that is 
something I would like to learn more about.  
 
How did the experience meet, exceed, or fall short of your expectations? Explain and 
include specific details from your fieldwork notes to help support your answer 
Reflection::My experience was a little boring I thought I would be able to see more 
because the whole time I was stuck with only seeing one patient but it was interesting 
because the nurse did so much just for one patient. I never realized how much you 
actually need to remember and know when working in the ICU, you are always busy 
no matter what, busy doing charts, getting/changing IV’s, updating the family, you 
hold a big responsibility just for one person. Your life is really in the nurses/doctors 
hand 
 
What connection can be made between what you ​saw​ on your fieldwork experience and 
the functions of Public Health?  
Some suggestions 
- the role of public health within this career path 
- public health needs or challenges within the field you observed 
- thoughts on how to address these needs 
 
Reflection::What connections I made is that the ICU is really interesting and it's 
amazing how hardworking the horses are and how much knowledge they know and 
have about everything when it comes to figuring out how much medicine and what 
they think will help and doing mini procedures in the rooms, but ICU I do not think is a 
 career path I would choose personally.