• COMMUNICATION: Working in a hospital where things can easily get switched or messed up, requires lots of talking and communication between nurses and even patients. So not only seeing it happen between colleagues but also having to resource it for myself as time went on.

• CONFIDENCE: Meeting new people and only having so limited time to form and build a relationship can my hard. But the more i was there i slowly got out of my shell and was getting more and more confident with asking questions or even asking to shadow a nurse to see a patient, and if i hadn't had done that i wouldn't have been able to see as much as i did.

• WORK ETHIC & PROFESSIONALISM: I demonstrated strong work ethic by consistently arriving prepared, assisting staff proactively, and completing tasks thoroughly in a fast-paced hospital environment. I maintained professionalism by communicating respectfully with patients and staff, protecting patient confidentially, and responding positively to feedback from supervisors.

Question 1: What is your name and where do you work?

Answer 1: 

• My name is Anna Velasquez and i work on Family Center.

Question 2: What are your main responsibilities working at the family center?

Answer 2: 

• Taking care of patients, taking care of babies and moms, delivering babies, postpartum, c-sections, helping anyone in the hospital whenever needed.

Question 3: How long have you worked here?

Answer 3: 

• 8 years

Question 4: What do you like most about your job?

Answer 4: 

• My friends, my students, teaching, i also enjoy learning new things every shift because each day is different.

Question 5: How do you deal with stress in your job?

Answer 5: 

• Talking, lots of communication, making jokes to ease tension.

Question 6: How did you choose the career your in?

Answer 6: 

• When i was little i wanted to be a pediatric ophthalmologist but once i did my research i thought i wouldn't be smart enough so i went o school to be a teacher but also found out thats not what i truly wanted to be so i went back to school to be a nurse and follow in my grandmas footsteps.

Question 7: Where did you go to school?

Answer 7:

•  CMU

Question 8: Do you think communication skills are important to your job?

Answer 8:

•  Oh yes, all the time!

Question 9: Do you think people skills are important? Why?

Answer 9:

•  Yes, because if you don't have people skills, you can't communicate with your patients, and if your not communicating with your patients your not doing your job.

Question 10: If you could give me one piece of career advice that you think could help me, what would it be?

Answer 10: 

• To make sure that that is the career you want to do. Because there are a lot of opportunities out there to work babies, and women. And it all depends on what your reasoning is and will it make you happy doing it.