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Student Success Statement

"I will persist until I succeed"

Og Mandino

(Author of "The Greatest Salesman in the World")

I think he means that he will continue to try until he succeeds at what we wants. Also you shouldn't give up after only trying once. You should continue to keep trying until you accomplish your goals. 

Perfusionist

Duties and Responsibilities: Clinical perfusionists operate circulation equipment during medical situations when it is necessary to temporarily and artificially replace the patient’s circulatory or respiratory functions.  This occurs during heart surgery and similar operations.  Perfusionists also control the temperature of patients during surgery.  Their duties include: 

• Operating heart-lung machines
• Administering some types of anesthesia
• Administering some types of medication

Salary: $50,000

Education: Clinical perfusionists operate circulation equipment during medical situations when it is necessary to temporarily and artificially replace the patient’s circulatory or respiratory functions.  This occurs during heart surgery and similar operations.  Perfusionists also control the temperature of patients during surgery.  Their duties include: 

• Operating heart-lung machines
• Administering some types of anesthesia
• Administering some types of medication

Reflection:  I would like to have this career because you get to work in the actual surgery. 

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Success Statement

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Talent will not; nothing is more common that unsuccessful men with talent.

Geniuswill not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

President Calvin Coolidge

30^th president of the US (1872-1933)

This means that no matter what; you must have persistent to get what you want. The world lacks people who still have determination. Persistence is to not lose hope in your goals and dreams after you have been rejected and turned down 100 times. He is trying to say that if you continue trying, you will eventually get there.

Patient Representative

Duties and Responsibilities: Patient Representatives work for healthcare administrators to address the concerns and special needs of patients and their families. They evaluate patient satisfaction, investigate complaints, collect information about patient dissatisfaction, work with department to resolve patient problems, and educate staff.

Patient representatives work in hospitals, nursing homes, other long-term care facilities, and in public health agencies.

Average Salary: $20,000-$40,000

Educational Requirements: Students should take challenging high school courses in business, science, math, and English.

Requirements differ, but most employers prefer college graduates with backgrounds in health or social services. Experience or course work in conflict resolution is also valued. 

 

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Student Success Statement 

"Persistance can change failure into extraordinary achievment."

Matt Biondi 

This means that your dreams won't come overnight, you have to work for them. Even if you are a failure, you must keep trying and trying until you get it right. Determination and persistance will lead to success. He was a failure before but he continued trying and trying until he got where he wanted to be. Also, hewants to tell us that if you try and try again then there will be no more failure and extraordinary things can happen. Matt won a gold medal and he set a new record for swimming.

Osteopathic Physician, D.O

Duties and Responsibilities: They use allowed methods of diagnosing and treating injuries and diseases. They emphasize the importance of the musculoskeletal system, holistic medicine, proper nutrition, and environmental. Osteopathic physicians use accepted methods of diagnosing and treating injuries and diseases. They emphasize the importance of the musculoskeletal system, holistic medicine, proper nutrition, and environmental factors in maintaining good health.   They work primarily in osteopathic hospitals or private practice, however many allopathic hospitals now accept osteopathic physicians as staff members.  The majority of osteopaths are general practitioners, family practitioners, or emergency medicine specialists. 

Salary: $110,000

Education: Students should take AP or IB courses available in science, math, and English. After 3 or 4 years of college, prospective physicians should attend medical school. Undergraduate requirements include one year of basic chemistry, one year of organic chemistry, one year of biology, and one year of physics. Some medical schools also require calculus, English, the humanities, or social science. 

Student Success Statement 

The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure:

1) Can people trust me to do what's right? Yes 

2) Am I committed to doing my very best? Sometimes 

3) Do I treat people the way I wnat to be treated? No

If the answers to these questions are YES, there is no way you can fail."

Lou Holtz

This statement means that your actions determine your success or failure. If you can be trusted to do what is right, then people will go to to  you when they are in need of help or need a hand. If you are commited to doing your very best you will learn to manage everything you have to do and you will get a good results out of everything you do. If you treat people the way you want to be treated you will always be treated with repect. 

Optometrist

Duties and Responsibilities:
They take care of eyesight problems. They first diagnose the problem and prescribe corrective eyeglasses, contact lenses, or vision therapy. Optometrists are not physicians and may not write out prescriptions, treat diseases, or perform surgeries.Optometrists are self-employed, work in hospitals, government agencies, optical manufacturers, or universities.
Salary: $78,000
Education: Students that wants to become an optometrist should take the most challenging high school courses available in math, science, and English.  Before entering an optometry school at least two years of college in a pre-professional program is required.  Optometry school is four years long.  After being awarded the degree of Doctor of Optometry, optometrists must pass state exams before starting to practice.
Reflection: I would not like to be an Optometrists because eyesight and the career itself does not interest me. 

John F. Kennedy Video

Summary: I am going to try to put more effort into excersice at school. I will also abstain myself from using any drugs such as alcohol, weed, or anything that harms my body. I willl stop staying up late and try to get  8 hours of sleep everyday. I will also stop eating so much junk food because i recognize that it is bad for me. I will start putting healthier food in my system so that I could be healthy. 

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Student Success Statement

“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body; it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.”

President John F. Kennedy

This means that we are only fully capable when we are at good health and our body is strong. If you have a healthy body then you have a healthy mind and that will lead to success. When your body is healthy you have the confidence you need to do anything. 

Optician

Duties and Responsibilities: When given a prescription by ophthalmologists or optometrists, opticians fit patients for their eyeglasses. This includes measuring several places around the patient’s eyes. They also have to make sure that the once finished, the lenses are perfectly made. Opticians keep records of customer prescriptions, work, orders, and payments. Opticians work in their own retail store or an optical store. Some may work for optometrists and ophthalmologist who sell glasses.

Average Salary: $19,000-$40,000

Educational Requirements: Students should take high school courses in physics, algebra, mechanical drawing, and geometry.  A high school diploma or GED certificate is needed to begin training as an optician.  There are two types of training programs.  Students can either complete an approved two-year course at a school of optician, or they can complete an approved three year on-the-job apprenticeship.

Reflection: I would not like to be an Optician because I don't like the career. 

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Student Success Statement

“No student ever attains eminent success by simply doing what is required of him/her; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.”   

Charles Kendall Adams, American Historian

This means that you have to do more than what is expected to achieve success. You have to do more in order to get more. If you only do what is expected you will only fill the requirements that you were expected to do. In other words, you only do the least you can. For example in order to fulfill the requirements in a class you need only to get a “C” but if you want to be successful and do more, you will get an “A.”

Optical Laboratory Technician

Duties and Responsibilities: Optical laboratory technicians grind and fit eyeglass lenses into frames according to prescriptions written by ophthalmologists or optometrists.  Technicians set lens grinding machine so that lens blanks are ground and polished. They then fit the polished lenses into eyeglass frames and, depending upon where they work, fit the frames to the patients.  Some ophthalmic technicians work in optical laboratories or for optometrists or ophthalmologists.  Many work in retail stores that have optical departments.

Salary: $15,000- $20,000

Education Requirements: A high school diploma or GED certificate is needed to begin optical laboratory training.  Training programs last between six months and one year and are provided by vocational schools and community colleges.  Some retail store optical departments provide on-the-job training.

Reflection: I would not like to be an optical laboratory technician because i dont like the job and the salary isn't satisfying. 

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Student Success Statement

"Doing what is right, fair, and honorable is more important than winning or loosing."

Chick Moorman 

This means that if you do the good thing and follow every rule, that would have been better than winning or loosing. For example if you cheat in a game and win. you will not have been right, fair, and honest rather the opposite. 

My grades have dropped significantly. I think it's just because of 1 class which is algebra 2. I don't like that class. I have a D and if i don't pick it up I won't be passing that class and will have to retake it with the same teacher. I need to either raise or go talk to my councelor so that she can change my class. I dont know what to do anymore as everything he says goes in one ear and out the other. I dont understand his teachning or anything he says therefore i dont do my work.

Ophthalmologist

Duties and Responsibilities: Ophthalmologists are medically trained doctors with specialist skills in the eye and visual system. Their patients include people of all ages; even babies. Most want to become consultant, where they develop the technical skills of a micro surgeon with the therapeutic skills of a doctor. Some but very few ophthalmologists are also trained in general medicine. The common conditions treated are cataracts, glaucoma, and diabetes. They work in hospital eye casualty departments, outpatient clinics, and laser eye surgery clinics. Their tasks include: assessing and examining patients in order to make a diagnosis, managing busy general outpatient clinics, operating equipment such as ophthalmoscopes, and carrying out surgical procedures using an operating microscope.

Salary: $257,000

Education: Students should take:

• Four years of medical school                                                 
• One year of internship
• Three years  of residency in ophthalmology
• Special training in all aspects of eye care

Reflection: I would not like to be an ophthalmologist because I am not interested in eye surgery. 

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Student Success Statement
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher

This means to be better than what peolpe think of you and dont shape yourself to fit their expectations.
If soemone expects you to not succeed you can prove them wrong and do everyhting you can to be better than they are. It is as if someone told you you can't even make it into a community college and you end up going straight into a university. You have proved them wrong and done better than what they expected.

Ophthalmic Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:   The duties of an Ophthalmic Technician are several. They include taking patient medical histories, instructing patients about medications, tests, and procedures, performing various vision and diagnostic tests, assisting ophthalmologists with patient procedure, coordinating patient scheduling, and supervising and training other ophthalmic assistants.

Salary: The average salary is between $30,000-$70,000

Education: You need to have a high school diploma and 2 years of college to begin the ophthalmic technician training. These programs are usually 2 years.

 

 I dont want to be one because the career doesn't interest me

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Student Success Statement

"Goal setting is goal getting. Set and get."

Mark Victor Hansen

This means that you will get what you set.You have to reach with ambition to your goals to get what you want. If you know what you want then you will eventually get it. This is because if you know what you want then you will know what to do to get it.

I still havent reached many of my goals. I am also convinced that that won't be happening any time soon. I have completed some minor goal but not the ones with the bigger picture. Those, I admit won't be happening until i am older. I try not to forget about this notebook and try to carry it with me wherever i go but sometimes it's difficult. I think this notebook has helped me seen what i want for myself and what i am up against. The dreams i have are big and i know it wont be easy to get there. I think one of my main goals i have to work on is to stop comparing myself to others. For some reason, whenever I see a girl i start tolist the reasons why she is better than me and always put myself as a minority. I guess i have to work on that and i still have a long way  to go. In all, I hope to have finished most of these goals by the end of the year.

Operating Room Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:
Operating room technicians are also called surgical technicians or surgical technologists.  They assist in preparing operating rooms for surgery.  They are responsible for having surgical instruments, sterile bandages and linens, needed fluids, and other equipment ready for the operation.  They may also assist doctors by handing them needed instruments during surgery and for counting sponges and needles before and after the operation.  They deliver specimens to hospital laboratories for analysis, and after operations they take patients to the recovery room.

Average Salary:  $16,000 - $22,000

Educational Requirements:

·        High school diploma or GED certificate is required

·        Two year program in  operating room

·     Training programs in which students receive training in medical terminology, physiology, and sterilization methods

·         An examination by the Association of Surgical Technologists to become certified.

I would want to be an operating room technician because the career seems interesting.