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Megan Lockwood HMNT1001 Week 4 December 22, 2023 There was no moment I realized that I needed to continue my education; I knew that even though school was never really my strong suit, I was going to have to further my education if I wanted to be able to make a difference in the mental health community the way I wanted to. I have been back and forth between majors for the last few years. I started going for my associate degree in social work in 2018, but I started working in the emergency room and wanted to go to school for something more clinical. I entered the nursing program and completed my prerequisites to start nursing clinical as the pandemic began. At this time, I was working in the emergency room as a trauma technician at one hospital and as a lead psychiatric technician at a separate hospital across town. Between both and short staffing, I worked close to 100 hours per week, and all my nursing classes had been moved online. I have always been a hands-on learner and was worried about going online, but the beginning was pretty since I knew most of the online clinicals from working in the emergency room. As things got further in the program, I felt I was struggling to learn the proper way to do something to pass my clinical exams since the way I knew was how I was taught while working in an ER rather than the required ordered and step-by-step assessments that are needed for clinical exams. I decided to step away until in-person clinicals resumed. During this time, I worked as a travel CNA throughout state psychiatric hospitals in different states and realized I was very burnt out after COVID-19 and no longer had the joy I once had when working in the emergency room. I found

my happiness working with individuals with mental health illnesses instead. I tried to work my way up the ladder. Still, to have the kind of one-on-one impact and enough salary to survive financially in this current society, I would have to go back to school for social work and continue my journey. I had initially started back in 2018. While being “fully human” in an online academic world is difficult, I believe that excellent communication is a good place to start. While I tend to struggle when it comes to classes that I don’t have that driven passion that I do when it comes to social work and psychology, I find it a lot more difficult to relate and get into a detailed discussion about things that don’t immediately grab my interest and intrigue me to read/learn more. I have been actively trying to relate conversations I have difficulty with to things in my day-to-day life or change my point of view about it so I become more active in learning about new things and have communication in discussions. I feel ready to embark on my journey, and I do much better with online learning when it comes to lectures and essays rather than in the classroom. I also love that there are field study internships for six months, so it's that hands-on learning I was missing due to COVID during the end of my nursing clinical. I have been completing the last of my general low elective classes on Sophia online and am hoping to be able to start with SOCW 2001 in the spring quarter. Many coworkers help me with types and studying when I ask that. It is a great support system. I live over ten hours away from my family and just moved to my area, so I don’t have many friends other than my coworkers, who have supported me in returning to school. My planner is also a significant thing that helps me. It is my lifeline; with my ADHD, I get very distracted quickly and tend to get “squirrel-brained” very easily, but my planner is color

coordinated with my classes, each having their color assigned along with all assignments due on which days and even my work schedule blended into it as well. I am managing the business of being a decent student. It has been a rough few weeks, not so much because of school but because of outside life. I just moved to the area I am in and was renting a room for about two months, and then I found out the people I was renting from didn’t have their rent, so we all ended up getting evicted. I had to find a new place to live and somewhere to go for about a month until I could get into the new place. I decided to visit my parents about 14 hours away for the holidays, so it was sometimes challenging to accomplish everything with the travel and holidays. I. look forward to moving into my place and continuing work next week and ensuring I have everything thoroughly in order and prepared for starting my major social work classes in February while I finish up the last 2 of my Sophia online classes to transfer. One of the university resources I have loved so far is the Oasis; it makes everything easy to find and is excellent. Templates which. I was worried about since when. I was in school last time; it was in MLA format, so I am terrified to be moving on to APA and having points deducted because I did it wrong. Another resource is Grammarly; I have added it to my laptop, tablet, and phone. It is a great resource, mainly since it sometimes corrects complete sentences, which works great for me since I sometimes have trouble putting my thoughts onto paper properly.

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