Work Log 

Before an internship ; 

Date : 21 August 2019 

Location : Mahidol University International Demonstration School 
By now, two weeks have passed since the day Mr.Walsh, my 
capstone project teacher, explained and gave an idea about the 
project. The instruction was that students in grade 11 need to do a 
capstone project in order to graduate from this school which we can 
choose the types of projects that we want to do. The suggestions 
from the school are Scientific inquiry, artistic portfolio, 
design-and-build project, business plan, or an internship. After that 
Mr. Walsh gave us an instruction paper of the capstone project that 
includes the information about the final product requirements and the 
grading rubrics for all types of projects. Finally, I decided to do an 
internship because I’ve been thinking about the time that I have until 
the due dates which I have very less and I have lots of work to do. I 
also believed that the internship will take me less time to finish than 
working on academic projects, so I chose to do an internship. 
 
 
 
Date : 28 August 2019 
Location : Home 
I’ve been thinking about where I’m going to do my internship for 
the whole week and I decided to go to Ramathibodi hospital. I 
decided to go there because I’m interested in the medical course and 
hospital work. Even though I'm a business student who studies 
marketing for the elective subject, I still want to gain new experience 
from working in the hospital and explore myself too. However, the 
reason why I chose to go to Ramathibodi hospital was because this 
hospital is a hospital under the government which people that come 
here are more struggling than the people that go to a private hospital 
so I really feel like I want to help them more. 
 
 
 
Date : 12 September 2019 
Location : Mahidol University International Demonstration School 
I submitted the internship application form to the student office 
for 3 days already and there is a confirmation email from the hospital 
that I’m accepted to do an internship there. The student office called 
me to go meet them. After that, the teacher who is in charge of taking 
care of the internship student gave me an internship preparation 
document. 
 
 
 
Date : 8 October 2019 
Location : Home 
It is one more day until my first day of an internship at 
Ramathibodi hospital. I spend my time reading through the 
preparation paper to prepare myself the best I could do. I prepared 
my citizen card and the school uniform with proper shoes. I was so 
excited to meet new people and work in a public place. I sleep very 
early to be able to wake up at 5.30 am in the morning.  
 
 
During an internship ; 

Date : 9 Oct 2019  

Location : Surgical Department 

Time : 7.30 AM to 15.30 PM 
This is the first day of my internship. In the morning I prepared 
myself very quickly in order to be on time for the first meeting at the 
hospital. When I arrived, I met my friends that are coming on an 
internship too and we went straight to the counseling department for 
the meeting. The person that takes care of the internship students is 
Ms. Jun who introduced us to the work in the hospital and briefed us 
on how to do the work correctly. After that, she invited us into the line 
group that has all the information about the work. Then she gave me 
and my friends our name tags and the blue uniforms that represent 
us as an internship student. Then she assigned us to work in different 
departments. There are few departments that we are able to go to 
which are Outpatient, Surgical, Pediatrics, Medicine, Ophthalmology, 
Pharmaceutical, and Orthopedic department. Me and my best friend 
were assigned to the Surgical Department. We walked about 350 
meter to the department because the building that the Surgical 
Department is in is not at the same building that we have the 
meeting. When I arrived, the nurse at this department briefed me on 
more specific work that I need to do. I helped the nurse fill in the 
patient information into the computer. I printed the EMR progress of 
the patients and sent them to the doctor rooms. I scanned the patient 
document that was checked and stamped a sign on it to show that it 
was already checked and sent them to the nurse staff that keep all 
the patient’s document. I also copied some medical documents that 
are important. And when it was 12 o’clock in the afternoon, I had a 
lunch break and then when it was 1.00pm I needed to return back to 
work again until 3.30 pm. After that I needed to walk back to the 
consoling department to sign out my name with the finish work time 
and return the uniform. I’m very tired but I also had so much fun 
working. 
 
Date : 21 October 2019  
Location : Medicine Department 
Time : 7.30 AM to 15.30 PM 
Today is my second day working in the hospital. I woke up very 
early again to be on time to sign my name with the arrival time at 
7.30. Today, I was sent to the Medicine Department and I needed to 
walk for a long way again. When I arrived I was so surprised because 
this department has a lot more patients than the Surgical 
Department. Then I realized that it was because this department has 
many more specific clinics here. The nurses here were more friendly 
too and I think it’s because they need to meet more patients so they 
are more professional in communicating with people. They briefed me 
on the work and told me not to do the warning thing such as giving 
the patient information that I don’t know or giving medical 
information randomly. My work was in two stations, the first station is 
the checking of the patient’s vital signs of blood pressure, 
temperature, and oxygen saturation. The second one is checking the 
patient’s weight and height. But the nurse usually wants me to help 
on the second station because I’m tall so it is perfect for me to 
measure the height of the patient. After checking everything, I helped 
the nurse call up and queue the patients. The most important thing 
that I need to remind myself all the time as the nurses taught me is 
that I need to wear a mask and I need to wash my hands using 
alcohol gel frequently. 
Due to the varieties clinic in the Medicine Department, the 
counter where I sit was beside the neuralgia clinic. I saw many 
neuroses doing weird things such as laughing without anything 
happening, bullying other people sitting beside them, screaming out 
loud and one of them screaming bad words out to the nurses. I and 
the other patients were so shocked but then the nurses can handle 
the situation. This was a new experience for me that I don’t think I 
can get it from anywhere else except from here. However, I’ve 
learned how the nurses deal with these kinds of people. 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Date : 22 October 2019 
Location : Medicine Department 
Time : 7.30 AM to 15.30 PM 
I was assigned to an Medicine Department again and I was 
welcome because I really enjoyed working here. I like to work with 
people, not the papering work because I get to concentrate. Today, I 
got to help the nurse check the patients’ vital signs of blood pressure, 
temperature, oxygen saturation, weight and height same as last time 
but this time I also got to help them put in the patient information into 
the computer too so I’ve learned about the hospital process and the 
management. Some nurses also gave me extra knowledge about the 
disease, sickness, and medical too. 
There are two new experiences for me this time. In the morning 
when I was checking the patient's vital signs of blood pressure, she 
breathed hard. Then the nurse asked if she was okay, and she 
answered that it’s normal for her to breath like this because of 
shingles. Then the nurse's face turned green as she told me to go  
wash my hands and wear a mask and the other nurse also did the 
same thing as me automatically. Then she asked the patient to wear a 
mask but she refused to do it. I was so confused but I followed what 
the nurse said. I put on the alcohol gel in my hands and washed but 
the nurse told me to go wash my hands at the toilet which makes me 
get more confused. After I came back I asked the nurse what 
happened then she explained to me that shingles is a disease that 
can be transmitted through respiration and exposure but that patient 
didn’t do what she should so we need to protect ourselves as much 
as we could. 

 
Date : 24 October 2019 
Location : Hearing aids Department 
Time : 7.30 AM to 15.30 PM 
Work : I started the day with a shocking story. There was one patient 
that the nurses needed to work so hard to communicate with 
because he had a poor hearing, he is going to sell his house and he 
also wants to kill himself. I heard this story from the head of the nurse 
talking to Ms.Jun in the consoling department where I come to sign 
my name at the beginning of the day. But the surprising thing is that 
Ms.Jun assigned me to go help the head of the nurse take care of this 
patient. I was so shocked because I have no ability to work with this 
type of patient so I asked Ms.Jun if I am really able to do this work and 
she said that I just need to help the nurse not working alone so I 
should be able to do it. Then I helped the head of the nurses take care 
of him through every progress in the hospital. I try my best to 
communicate with him when he doesn't hear what other people say 
by writing. I push the wheelchair for him to every station in the 
hospital. I brought him to queue in order to meet the doctor. And 
while he was queuing, he needed to take antihypertensive medicine 
but he didn’t have breakfast yet so I also went to buy him some food 
and drink. The patients here are very struggling like this old man 
because he came to the hospital very early in the morning without 
having breakfast in order to get the doctor queue. When I see these 
people I feel very dismal, but after I help them, I feel very proud of 
myself. 
 
 
 
Date : 25 October 2019  
Location : Medicine Department 
Time : 7.30 AM to 15.30 PM 
Work : This was my fifth day working in this hospital but it’s also my 
third time I was assigned to the Medicine Department. I helped the 
nurse check the patients’ vital signs of blood pressure, temperature, 
oxygen saturation, weight and height and then put all of their 
information into the computer. Since it was the third time for me 
working at this department. I’m getting more used to the work and I 
got actual knowledge from doing this work. I’ve learned that when 
the patients are measuring their vital signs of blood pressure, they 
should place their arms relax in order to get the most accurate 
pressure result. Every patient that is suffering with high blood 
pressure symptoms needs to take their medicine before coming to 
see a doctor every time. When the patients are checking their oxygen 
saturation, they need to take a deep breath to get the right percent of 
the result and the people at the teenager ages should get 100% 
result of the oxygen saturation. When I put all the patients 
information in the computer, it will diagnose abnormalities of patients 
automatically. If the patients are abnormal, the rews sign will show 
up in green colour but sometimes will show up red when the patient 
is in high risk. Then there will be a special nurse who comes to take 
them to check their risk. I love to learn new things like this. From 
doing this work, I have an opportunity to learn many small details in 
the hospital and I will adapt these things I knew when I go to the 
hospital in my real life. 
Date : 8 November 2019 
Location : Pharmaceutical Department 
Time : 7.30 AM to 15.30 PM 
Work : This was my last day working on my internship. I was 
assigned to the Pharmaceutical Department. When I first arrived, the 
nurse taught me all the things that I need to do. I helped the medical 
nurses categorize different types of medicine and arranged them into 
the correct shelves. I packed many kinds of medicine into boxes and 
sent them to another Pharmaceutical Department. I also got to pack 
the hypodermic syringes in the seal boxes which I needed to wear 
medical gloves too while packing to protect the syringes from dirth or 
bacteria in the air. I had so much fun classifying different types of 
hypodermic syringes because they come in different colours and sizes 
which they are used for different purposes. 
After lunch time, I don’t need to work until the end of the day 
like usual because Ms.jun took me and my friends out to get our work 
certificate and take a group photo. Then, Ms.Jun took us to the 
meeting room to exchange our experiences working in the hospital 
together. We talked for 30 minutes and then we all headed back 
home.  
When I’m on the way home I kept thinking about how fun I got 
to work with the people in this hospital. I got to have fun, I got to gain 
new knowledge, I got to make friends with the nurses and I also got 
tons of new experiences that I couldn’t get from anywhere else in my 
daily life. I really love working here and I can’t believe that I’ve been 
through six here already. If I have a chance to come work here again, I 
will definitely come for sure. 

By : Chananya Luengaroontip ( Meiling) G.1107