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Summer Internship
Experience
Clemson-Seneca Pediatrics
Stephanie Gerrald

Introduction
S The goal of this presentation is to highlight my internship
experience with Clemson-Seneca Pediatrics during the
summer of 2015.
S What to look for:
S Internship site’s mission and goals
S Provider information
S A description of my day-to-day activities and duties
S Internship Projects

Clemson-Seneca Pediatrics

About Clemson-Seneca
Pediatrics
S CSP is a multi-physician, multi-office pediatric group owned by the
Greenville Health System
S CSP, along with GHS as a whole organization, is focused on
preventive care
S Mission: “Clemson-Seneca Pediatrics is dedicated to advancing
the care of children and promoting healthy families.”
S Goals:
S “serve as family resource for raising happy and healthy children”
S “provide as much education as treatment in order to help your
children thrive”

About the Providers
S Clemson-Seneca Pediatrics has five
providers that rotate between the
Clemson and Seneca office to ensure
that patients always see a familiar face!

About the Providers
S Dr. Lorraine Bruce
S Pennsylvania State University
S Special interests: food, insect allergies, ADHD,
special needs, breastfeeding support, learning
disabilities, newborn care
S Dr. Antoinette Bannister
S Louisiana State University Medical Center
S Special interests: asthma, nutrition, preventive
medicine, ADHD

About the Providers
S Dr. Jordan Dean
S Emory University School of Medicine
S Special interests: ADHD, breastfeeding
support, asthma and nutrition
S Dr. Atieno Ragwar
S Cornell University Medical College
S Special interests: health and fitness,
breastfeeding support, obesity and nutrition

About the Providers
S Beth Dickerson, NP
S University of Virginia
S Experienced in diagnosing and treating
pediatric illnesses as well as educating
children and parents on diseases,
conditions, and healthy living

Intern Duties
S Typical day-to-day duties include
S Retrieving patients from waiting room
S Taking vital signs from patients and conducting patient
interview
S Vital signs include height, weight, blood pressure, temperature
(if sick), head circumference of infants
S Vitals and information from interviews are entered into Horizon
Ambulatory Care (the web-based electronic charting system)

Intern Duties
S More duties are
S Cleaning rooms between each patient visit
S Prepping vaccines
S Hemoglobin tests
S Urinalysis
S Rapid strep tests
S Checking on the status of Prior Authorization forms for
medications through different insurance companies

These two pictures show me performing one
of the many urinalyses that I did this
summer. I learned how to interpret the
results as well as properly record them in
the lab book and the electronic records
system

Here I am on the phone with
an insurance company
checking up on the status of
a Prior Authorization form for
a patient’s ADHD
medications
One of my favorite things to
do was to prep vaccines.
Here I am drawing a vaccine
out of its vial.

Internship Projects
S I assisted in the redecoration of the waiting room to help
make it more kid-friendly. With an underwater theme, we
decorated the walls with colored fish that the children
really seemed to like
S I was able to sit in on an interview for an open LPN
position and give my feedback on the applicant to the
office manager

Conclusion
S My internship with Clemson-Seneca Pediatrics was very eye-
opening and rewarding. I learned so many news things about
the field of nursing and healthcare in general
S The nurses that I had the privilege of working with taught me so
many things and helped me every step of the way. I hope to
someday be able to teach someone the way that they taught
me
S This experience has definitely strengthened my desire to
pursue a career in nursing and I’m excited for what I’ll be able
to do in the future because I was able to have this experience

Sources
S "Clemson-Seneca Pediatrics." : GHS Children's Hospital.
Web. 25 July 2015.