This week I have exciting news! After multiple meetings with my adviser, we both decided it would be more beneficial and impacting for me to change focus of my SRP, fulfilling a more administrative role in the Red Cross. Before, I was planning to participate in a multitude of different volunteer roles within the organization to understand the work the Red Cross does across the state of Sonora. For example, I was planning to work in the office helping respond to calls, work in the countryside distributing aid packages, and shadow first aid workers in emergency vehicles. This work certainly would have been interesting, but it seemed to unfocused and disorderly. 

I now plan to work in the largest clinic in Hermosillo, located on Blvd. Luis Encinas, helping the head of administration Paulina Corona. The Red Cross is one of the largest medical aid providers in the country but with all this work, they have not had the proper time or resources to develop a good way of organizing information pertaining to their patients or doctors. Part of my new task is creating a template for patient registration and retention to organize and store information for patient files. The clinic I am working in offers many specialist doctors in addition to a general practitioner so I will also be helping create patient registration sheets for specific doctors, for example the information asked by a gynecologist will be different from that of a dentist. Finally, I will be helping to better plan and schedule the hours of availability of certain doctors who volunteer their time in the clinic for only a few hours a week to make the most of that valuable time and lastly will attempt to track the most busy hours of the week to better manage our allocation of resources.

I believe my reassignment will prove more beneficial in the long run to not only the organization, but myself. It will be rewarding to be involved in building a steady infrastructure for this organization in order to help them provide even more good to their patients.