Dana Kimble

Executive Summery of My Internship Experience

My internship was at The Licking County Health Department in Newark, Ohio.

During my internship I was able to learn many new things and gain lots of experience

in areas I was unfamiliar with. In this summery I will describe what I experienced,

what I worked on, and the skills I have acquired during the internship semester.

I have gained a great deal of experience during my internship in areas of

which I am not used to being in. I was able to gain skills and experience in different

types of work that I have never been in before. During my internship I worked

mostly with Tabitha Haynes at the Licking County Health Department. Tabitha is the

Public Information Officer at the Health department and I have learned many things

from her. I am currently in the medical field as an X-ray technologist and I am looking

to advance my status by becoming a manager. Working with a public information

officer has given me a different perspective and different skills that I would

otherwise not have. I believe this internship has helped me see what areas I am

strong in and what areas I need to work on.

The first thing I started to work on after I received a tour, identification badge,

and introduction to all the staff was writing to the public. I conducted a letter to send

out to Licking County that asked for kind donations to The Licking County Health

Department’s Public Health Partnership charity. The letter is listed bellow. The next

task I was given was to write a press release to inform the public about a new mini-

grant received by the Licking County Health Department. I did not know at the time

that I would be composing many press releases for the rest of my internship. These

tasks were something very new to me because I had never written a press release or

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anything sent out to the public. The style of writing is completely different from what

I was used to and it truly has been a learning experience. Below are parts of only

some of the press releases I created.

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I had the privilege of working with computers everyday, which included word,

excel, power point, and many design websites such as Canva. When I was given a

project, Tabitha would give me the instructions and keep it open to my own

creativity. I was given the tasks of creating a couple different advertisements that

would be in magazines, newspapers, Facebook, signs, or twitter. I also had to create

some other projects such as three certificates of completion for daycare centers that

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completed an Infant safe sleep training session with the Licking County Health

Department’s health educators. . Bellow are some of my creations.

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Certificate created for daycare center

A coupe of projects that were on going projects in which I worked on

throughout the whole internship is entering volunteers information and licensures

into a government database so that they may be contacted in the case of a local crisis.

I had to check to be sure individuals who volunteered were licensed to practice

healthcare such as nurse care or being a doctor. I entered more than 200 individuals

and checked their licenses. This helped me gain responsibility and the know how to

check licenses. Since I want to become a healthcare manager, I will need to check

employee licenses to insure they can practice medicine so this experience has been

beneficial. Over my internship period I also did lots of mailing projects where I would

stuff, create labels, and then put the labels correctly on the mail for different

departments. This taught me how to use excel more efficiently and teamwork

working with many different employees in the department.

During my internship I attended many meetings. These meetings ranged from

tabletop meetings for crisis planning, to event planning meetings. The tabletop

meetings I was a part of were to prepare the local organizations like the health

department and hospital for a crisis such as a disease break out. The health

department and Licking County Hospital worked together to run through the steps

they would take to create a smooth running environment and keep people calm.

These meetings were very interesting because each person has a different duty and it

was good to see it all come together and to know the community would be taken care

of in a case of a disaster. I also attended event-planning meetings. I learned the

structure of the meetings and what it takes to create an affective meeting. At the

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event planning meetings we planned out how the annual River Round up event

would be funded, supervised, and arranged. This event is a volunteer event from the

community and they take groups of community volunteers down certain sections of

the river cleaning up trash and debris. I learned quickly it was not as easy as it

sounds to plan large events.

Overall this internship has been a positive learning experience. I have learned

many things about public relations, communication, interaction, design, media,

business operation, and organization. I believe all of the things I have learned and

experienced will help me in the near future.

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