Take Our Kids to Work Assignment
Name of host: Rose Anaas RAP #28 Relationship to me: Mother
Interview
- What is your job title?
Transitional Services Coordinator
- What is your job description?
To facilitate a safe discharge home
- What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job?
– Refer care/services
– Assessments
– Lead Family and Team Meetings
- What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:
A) Training? Nursing Degree
B) Education? Bachelors Degree, Leadership training, psychiatry
C) Experience? 18 years working in community, 2 years bedside nursing
D) Skills and attributes (person qualities?) Organized, adaptable to change, ability to work with people, listening skills.
- What are some of the things you like about this job?
Autonomy, challenging in people
- What are some of the things you dislike about this job?
Can be high stress with people asking multiple things at once, paperwork.
- How to you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so?
It’ll become more challenging and there will be more paperwork.
Student Reflection
- Give three reasons why you would like this job.
a) Getting to help people in the hospital
b) Making decisions and getting to have a say when finding an appropriate discharge home
c) Working as a team, TST (Transition Services Team)
2. Give three reasons why you wouldn’t like this job.
a) Sitting in the office a lot
b) It seems stressful because you are responsible for a lot of things and you have to be a leader.
c) There is a lot of paperwork.
3.Is this job for you? Why or why not?
I don’t think this job is for me because I’m not at all interested in working in a hospital and I want a job where I am more active rather than doing majority of the work in an office.
4. Explain the value of the TOKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post secondary (after high school) plans (education? training? travel? work?).
The take our kids to work experience is a great opportunity to see what it may be like when you get a job in the future and how it won’t be always be easy. It also shows how hard you have to work and train to get in that position.