I consider my career goal to be helping create hospital environments that are inviting and non-threatening to children. Thinking of Piaget’s cognitive theory, children form ideas about new information through assimilation and accommodation. If a child has a traumatic experience in the hospital, their schema of healthcare will be negative: "When I go to the hospital, I feel pain." I would consider myself successful if I can help that child accommodate their healthcare schema to be more positive: "When I see a CCLS at the hospital, I can play." By providing therapeutic outlets for children and teens, I can be a part of disproving the idea that hospital visits are always traumatic. In fact, I believe it is possible to help a child from ever creating a negative schema to begin with.
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader."
-John Quincy Adams
-John Quincy Adams