Essay #1

My name is Triniti Hammond-Fleming, I am a student at Rockingham County

High school and I’m in the 11th grade. I would like to complete high school with a

qualifying GPA to attend college (possibly playing basketball while I’m there), and

continue onto graduate school to pursue my medical degree to becoming an orthopedic

surgeon. It is my desire to be a orthopedic surgeon because I enjoy learning new facts,

and skills about the human anatomy. Also knowing that I’ll be able to help save lives,

and or to change someone’s quality of life for the better is very rewarding. It excites me

to know that the knowledge that I’ll obtain in my studies will be able to enlighten others

to gain knowledge about the human anatomy.

There are many opportunities that have allowed me to already being the path to

accomplishing my goals. This summer I’ll be in my 4th year of volunteering with UNC

Health Care, where I’ve had the privilege of shadowing doctors, and sitting in on a

babies being born. I have also began taking classes at Rockingham County High to help

me have the chance to graduate from high with my CNA certification. So far I’ve taken 3

classes within the track of the medical field called Health Team Relations, Health

Science 1 and Health Science 2. I’ve followed through with the necessary steps by

applied for the Health and Fundamentals program, which will assist me in achieving my

life goal.
 The lessons that I have learned from my experiences in preparing me for a

healthcare career that will help me become successful in the future, is to always be

ready to learn. I pride myself on being the type of person who enjoys learning new skills

to implement not only in the medical field but in everyday life. This advantage will help

me to be successful in the future, because everyday the medical technology is always

changing and saving lives with its critical demands, reliability and accuracy. There is

always the new best thing to research for the purpose of increasing technology and

techniques to improve the abilities of life through surgery. I’ve also learned that being

patience is not only a major part of life in grenal, but it plays a large factor in the

healthcare field. Growing to be patient has allowed me to overcome challenging

situations which has helped me have the patience that are needed to be helpful towards

others. In the healthcare field you must have self-restraint, due to the fact you may

never know or completely understand what someone else is going through, and or the

pain that they may be in. By being patient and having empathy for others they will gain

trust in you and have more faith in the service being provided to them. These values will

help me to be successful while working in the healthcare field.