Week 10: April 3-April 5 (15 hours)
Total: 141 hours
Week 11: April 10-April 12 (15 hours)
Total: 156 hours
Week 12: April 17-April 19 (15 hours)
Total: 171 hours
Week 13: April 24-April 26 (11 hours)
Total: 182 hours
The week's morning huddle started off with a big kudos to everyone on how successful HealthFest was. A lot of work was put into the event and almost 1,000 people attended! After huddle, I helped complete some post-HealthFest tasks. I moved the left over Community Relations supplies from a truck into the first-floor storage room. While at HealthFest, my job was to hand out the release and consent forms and to collect them. During my shift, I organized and counted the papers. There were 190 release forms and 189 consent forms, which is a fairly high number compared to previous years. A lot of times people forget to hand back a copy of their forms on the way out. April was an extremely busy month for the hospital so another assignment I had was to send out a Constant Contact email for Peninsula Partners. I created another April Constant Contact and made a rough draft to be sent out within the next week. Also this week, I researched more ideas for potential medical information card placement. Rhonda wanted me to think of something creative that people could use to easily find their medical information in the case of an emergency. Finally, I spent the rest of the week working on the Peninsula Partner database and adding emails to Constant Contact.
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This week went into full force with the Peninsula Partners Summer 2017 LifeWorks edition. It was one of my bigger projects I was assigned to work on but I could not do much with it until now. I had a long meeting with Rhonda to discuss my role and what my tasks were for the newsletter before it got sent to printing. I was assigned to help write up three different sections of the newsletter so I spent most of the week completing it. After the writing was done, I had another long meeting with Rhonda about how to use every part of the newsletter site, Coffey Communications, and upload content. Throughout the week, I also worked more on the second Constant Contact for April. I had to write up another section and add it to the campaign. The section was about PRMC home scripts. It took me a long time because there was so much information about the subject. It was difficult to condense all the important information to fit it in the newsletter. However, it turned out well! Another task I had throughout the week was organizing items for Dr. Peggy Naleppa, President/CEO of Peninsula Regional Medical Center. The items were table centers that are going to be used for Dr. Naleppa's retirement party in the fall. I labeled each item “Community Relations X 7766” so that they were properly returned after the event. As always, I concluded the week by working on the Peninsula Partners database and adding emails to Constant Contact. After working on it almost my entire internship, it was almost completed! A lot of emails have been added to Constant Contact and more people are receiving Peninsula Partner information.
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This week started off great because my National Volunteer Week article that was sent to the Salisbury Daily Times was officially published! Roger made a copy for me to keep and it was very rewarding to see my name in a published newspaper. The team congratulated me at morning huddle. The article was a huge accomplishment to take away from this internship and add to my future portfolio. Another big accomplishment for the week was that I officially finished the database. I added every single email that was not expired or already in the Constant Contact database. This project took me about 10 weeks total. Next, I started back on page one of the emails to double check that all the expired emails were not in the Constant Contact email list. By deleting expired or inactive emails, the bounce rate will decrease. On Tuesday, the day flew by. As soon as I walked into my office, it was time to head to the Community Relations/Marketing and Print Shop bake sale. Each department took turns raising money in some way for the March of Dimes. The March of Dimes fundraiser strives to improve the health of mothers and babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. I worked the bake sale from 11:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m and then cleaned up the space when it was over. We ended up raising over $200! It was a great success. The rest of the week I spent solely working on the Summer 2017 Lifestyle edition for Peninsula Partners. I updated all of the Support Group information and uploaded it onto Coffey Communications. At the very end of the week, Rhonda and I worked together on Coffey Communications, finishing up some last touches. All the content needed to be uploaded for publication before next week's deadline. All and all, it was a very successful and productive week.
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It was officially the last week of my internship! Originally, I was going to finish with 186 hours but I had to call out of my four-hour shift on Tuesday for an interview at my home in Montgomery County, Maryland. It was the only day that I missed all semester. On Monday, I shared with the morning group huddle about my interview and they gave me some tips and advice. I spent the majority of the day finishing up the Peninsula Partners database project that I worked on my entire internship. It was officially completed and I added almost 1,000 new contacts! I also worked on the Summer 2017 Lifeworks edition for Peninsula Partners. Rhonda had me review her personal message on the last page and then upload the content to Coffey Communications. Wednesday was officially my last day and it was hard leaving. I made cookies for the whole team and wrote thank you notes as a sign of my appreciation. I spent the day wrapping up some final tasks and putting together goodie bags for an event the heart and vascular department had coming up. At the end of the day the whole Community Relations and Marketing team threw me a going away party! We all sat around eating cupcakes and discussed everything that was accomplished over the semester. I said goodbye to each person individually and wished them well. I am going to miss the experience I had at Peninsula Regional Medical Center. I gained so many skills and experiences that I will take with me in my future career. Within an hour of leaving, Roger had already sent a recommendation letter he wrote for me. It was an incredible internship and made me even more confident of my goal to work in healthcare communications.
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