Tyler Graves
Professional Portfolio
COS INTERNSHIP: Medical at Black Canyon Surgical Center and Montrose Regional Health
The Colorado Department of Education defines "Professional" using the following descriptors:
time & work management
career literacy
grit and resilience
work ethic; dependable and reliable
My Personal Definition of Professional
My belief is that to be a professional not only do you need to know what you are doing, and be certified to do what you are doing for work. You also need to try to succeed at what you are doing for work; don't just mope around just doing the bare minimum that is required. I also think it means that you are trying to make as much of a positive impact that you can every day that you go to work, or do anything related to work. Being professional also means that you need to do what is asked of you as long as it is reasonable, and if you have questions you ask about them so that you are doing your job to the best of your ability. You also need to be respectful, responsible, and dependable
Career Q&A
Career question 1: What do you do for work?
Answer 1: I am a registered nurse I work in the operating room, surgery for about 18 years as a nurse 20 years including another occupancy so I decided to become a registered nurse and moved on to some advanced certification called nurse first assistant which was about two years of schooling
Career question 2: Besides your education what makes you successful at your job?
Answer 2: I think obviously learning how to work with people which I think I applicable to every job you have to be able to cooperate with people adjust with people interpret people so you can do it in a proper way to avoid confrontation enhance communications and get the job done efficiently and effectively do I think to some point I work well with people in some functioning level
Career question 3: What do you like most about your job?
Answer 3: Surgery is pretty neat I like the opportunities to be hands on as a nurse first assist and to help doctors as they do their surgeries dissecting seeing the anatomy fixing things that aren’t working it’s pretty neat, pretty amazing
Career question 4: If you were to go back to the beginning of your career what would you change of anything you
did?
Answer 4 would be more open about what I didn’t know so I could learn at a faster rate sometimes it’s
hard to ask questions because it reveals what you don’t know while I did ask questions I
certainly did sit back and figure I would learn by experience and I did but I could have increased
my rate of learning by not being afraid to ask questions
Current Experience & Employment
I have done two different internships through the COS class. My first internship was at the Black Canyon Surgical Center. My second internship was at the same day surgery and PACU centers of Montrose Regional Health.
Resume
Resume.docx (1).pdfInternship Overview
Edited Internship Promo Video (Dec 5, 2022 at 11:29 AM)Soft Skills I Focused on
Communication
Inquiry
Informed risk taking
Critical thinking
Initiative
Self-Advocacy
Presentation Video
Copy of Final Presentation #3 (Dec 13, 2022 at 11:21 AM).MOVMy Future Plan & Career Statement
I hope to be accepted into the CMU Nursing program, and attend to earn my BSN. Then find a job as a registered nurse. Later on I hope to return to school to become a certified registered nurse anesthetist, or nurse first assistant
Goals I Set For Myself
Self Confidence: Be able to ask questions, or provide input freely without worrying about being judged, or ridiculed by those that I ask about the question because it was a dumb question
Time Management: I wanted to become better at managing my time thought the day, and when it came to homework I wanted to become better at setting aside freetime to be able to just sit down and do the work I needed to, and do the work in a timely manner.
Communication: I wanted to become better at communicating wether it was by asking questions, or while working in groups to complete a task. I also wanted to be better at communicating things that I needed to get done.
What I learned:
Reflective Essay
Tyler Graves - Reflective Essay #2.pdf