Brittany reflects on her purpose and career path. She believes her hands were made to help and heal people. Though she once pictured being a surgeon, volunteering at a hospital with child life specialists made her realize she wants a career working with children. She is grateful to the child life specialists and her mentor for their influence and support in helping her evaluate her options and choose a career that allows her to make a positive impact on kids.

1. Mentee: Brittany Beach
Mentor: Kari Laudenslager

2. Our Two Hands & Their Purpose
Everyone is given two hands. With these hands, they have a job. Whether
that job is changing a diaper, putting together a lamp, or fixing someone’s
heart. We all have a job we do with our hands. God gave me a purpose. He
gave me two hands that I believe are to be used for fixing people’s hearts.

3. Stereotype of a Surgeon
• Cold
• Depressed
• Know-it-alls
• Incapable Of Love
• Pessimistic View
– God’s Gift To Humanity
– Misunderstood
– Hard Life

4. Why Medicine?
Model
the Way
Inspire a
Shared
Vision
Challenge the
Process
Enable
Others to
Act
Encourage the
Heart
• Enable Others to Act
• Service to Others
• Model the Way
• Leadership Qualities
• Encourage the Heart
• Career Assessment
• Experience
• Passion and Love of Science

5. Doubtful Career Path
• Twelve Years Later
– Medicine
• Three Years I Have
Pictured A Surgeon
• College Made Me
Uncertain About Medicine
– Challenging Semester Last
Year
– Questions Entered My Head.
– From A Community College
To A University
• More Challenging

6. • volunteering with the
hospital
– Something I looked
forward to
• What I did
• Who I worked with
– Beth & Brenda
Volunteer Christmas Party (December 2014)
I am not pictured.

7. Evaluating Surgeon
& Child Life Specialist
• Babysitting
• Congenital Heart
Defect (CHD)
• Child Life Specialist
• making a difference to
him.
• Making sure other
children can
understand what
will happen to them
when the doctor
takes care of him
• Help ease his pain.

8. I Choose….
a job where I can work with kids.

9. Special Thank You to…
This project was made so much easier with help from
my amazing two Child Life Specialists Mrs. Brenda and
Mrs. Beth, from USA Children & Women’s Hospital.
They influenced me in my time volunteering. I thank
them for taking time to make sure I was comfortable
and helping me to step outside my comfort zone.
Lastly, Thank you to Mrs. Kari. She was a wonderful
help. She even helped me look at some new colleges,
new majors, and reminded me about the progress
reports. This project would be a mess without her
help.