{Child Life}

Child Life Specialists help to make the hospital experience less stressful on children and their families

&
 

  • Cool sites

  • About

    I love the field of Child Life and enjoy having this blog to network, learn, and share information with other people who are already in the field, or interested in pursuing a career in it. I post anything and everything from internships, to tips for parents, and Child Life in the news. I graduated from the University of Utah last year with my BS in Human Development and Family Studies with a Child Life Emphasis. I am currently planning on applying for the Child Life Internship at Primary Children's Medical Center in the fall. For readers who are new to the field, Child Life Specialists help to make the hospital experience a less scary one for children and the entire family. They aim to do this by providing step by step procedural preparations including informing the child (in an age appropriate detail) about what they will hear, smell, touch, taste, and see during a test or surgery. Child Life Specialists also provide developmentally appropriate play, distraction during tests, emotional support to the patient as well as the entire family, sibling education and support, and bereavement support if necessary. If you have any questions, comments, or information you would like to see here, I would love to hear from you! Feel free to contact me at sweetblueair[at]gmail.com

Sep 18 2008

Question about internship applications

Published by wordsforeverything at 9:49 pm under Uncategorized Edit This

Out of curiosity sparked by recent events, I would like to pose a question mainly to internship coordinators or those who has successfully been accepted into an internship program. In your opinion and/or experience what is the importance of the presentation of the application for child life internships? In my (very limited) Child Life journey, it has been my experience that some programs prefer applications that are not presented in folders or any sort of binder, and do not like applications to be stapled. I’m just wondering why there seems to be such a huge difference in preference and no clear cut way of doing things. It makes it somewhat difficult to guess what certain programs want when they don’t clearly state their preferred method either way. In my opinion, if programs are using this as a cut off criteria for who is actually accepted into the internship program, the desired way should be detailed on their website or through other contact with the applicant. I am wondering what your experiences are? Any comments or suggestions are much appreciated.

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Mixx
  • Google
Possibly-related Articles:                                        (auto-generated)

One Response to “Question about internship applications”

  1. # Christinaon 23 Sep 2008 at 9:44 pm edit this

    I am a CLS who completed her internship in 2007. I would say, in general, that there is really no need for an internship application to be put in any type of binder, folder, etc. Although an applicant may think it looks more impressive, it is more of a pain for the application reviewers, since they have many applications to look at and those “extras” take up unnecessary space. I know at my hospital, the applications go through several people, so it is easier when the applications can be easily stacked and kept together without that extra bulk. As far as stapling and not stapling, that is probably not as big of a deal as the folder/binder issue. Presentation is important (following the directions listed on the application, keeping everything clean, typing as much as possible), but the actual content of the application and the quality of your interview is what will get you the internship. Try not to stress about the other details. :) Good luck!

Trackback URI | Comments RSS

Leave a Reply

Some Today.com contributors may have received a fee or a promotional product or service from a manufacturer for promotional consideration, while others receive no consideration at all. Each contributor is responsible for disclosing any such promotional consideration.