Upcoming Internship
by LaurieAs I am counting down the days to the end my college career ( well at least classes) I become overwhelmed with feelings of sadness, excitement and nervousness. I will not be graduating in August like the rest of my classmates… I will be interning. I meet with my internship “mentors” this Friday. As I have already posted previously, I am interning with Comfort Care Hospice. When I first tell people where I am interning, I get varied reactions. What I don’t think people realize is that I will not ever come in contact with patients….. I am actually working with the Marketing/PR aspect of the company. I didn’t realize exactly what hospices were until I found this internship. Now I am recognizing them everywhere I go and realizing what a competitive market this is. Greenville is a very small town in Alabama yet we now have two hospice services. The competition is a large homehealth and hospice service that is known and used statewide. Comfort Care on the other hand is fairly small and new but is rapidly growing. The fact that it is small is intimidating, but exciting. I believe this leaves a lot of room for new ideas and opportunities. I have many ideas and am sure I will have even more once I begin my internship. My biggest fear though is expressing these ideas and then coming off as overly aggressive or a “know it all”. I feel as though this internship will give me the chance to use all of the things I have been taught in my classes. My biggest question is how do I express these ideas and suggestions without being offensive?…… after all I am intern.