Week 1

This past week I started my volunteering at the San Jose Clinic. I had the orientation on Monday and volunteered on Wednesday. On Wednesday I had the opportunity to work with the secretaries and organize patient files. Usually when a patient enters the clinic they are given a blue piece of paper, where the doctor or nurse or whoever they see will write on it and then the patient is supposed to give it back to the secretaries and pay a very small amount. A lot of the time, patients may walk out with the sheet without knowing they need to give it in, as it is a free clinic. As well, sometimes the nurses throw them out. So my job is to look up the patients that may have done this, and organize the information. Did the patient truly come in that day? What were they seen for? Is there an out standing balance? Just straight forward stuff like that. But being that I don't want to be a doctor, I thought the best way to help the clinic would be to help with the paper work there.