I'm Ashley I'm a nurse practitioner and I work in the Mission Viejo Planned
Parenthood Health Center outside of work and I'm just a very busy mom I have two
little ones under three so they keep me very busy my name is Natasha
and I am a physician assistant with the Costa Mesa Planned Parenthood Center
outside of work I really like to travel with my husband we really love to get
out of the country but we can't always do that so a lot of times we'll end up
taking shorter day trips and one thing I really like about Planned Parenthood is
the scheduling we are scheduled to work four 10-hour shifts so we have a long
three-day weekend and that allows me to be able to have that time to go travel
more and see more places I'm Kelly I'm a physician assistant at the Santa Ana
Planned Parenthood health center outside of work I'm either cycling or going to
yoga classes and mostly hanging out with my husband and my cats at home and I
also have a book club that I really love a typical morning when I get in and
usually there's a patient that's ready to be seen within about 15 minutes but
it does give us time to go through as a medical assistant in the manager we do a
team huddle we go over the patients that we have scheduled for the day and I can
go through with especially with my medical assistant and tell them oh I
know this patient we're gonna need you to do this ahead of time just to help us
so that we can go you know as fast as we can and then if there's any spare time
after that we have a little bit of time to go over labs and documents patient
phone calls but usually we jump right in just seeing patients midday can be a
little hectic for our health centers it's usually when we see most of our
patient volume so it's really important that at that point of the day we all
come together as a team which we usually do really well usually that entails
communicating with the MAs who's gonna go to lunch first who's gonna take over
the very end of the day our last hour of the day we're finishing up with our last
few patients if we have any time to do you know phone calls we call our
patients back we make sure all our prescriptions got sent we work more like
a team at our health center so if someone's running behind and a patient
needs to leave we can jump in and help with that so it's a busy last hour but
the whole health center all the support staff are there to try to get everybody
out on time to get our patients out on time so that's really everybody's cool I
love the fact that at Planned Parenthood were able to help our patients right
when they're there with us and I know that because I went to Planned
Parenthood when I was younger I went to the Costa Mesa health center I felt like
it was a safe place for me to go to get my birth control and I felt like it
would be a safe place for me to work so as soon as I graduated I wanted to work
for Planned Parenthood I feel really happy to be so supported with case
managers who go through the labs and help result the negative ones it makes
me feel like I can do my job to the best of my abilities and that I'm fully
supported and I'm not alone and I'm a part of a really hard-working
well-organized team when I leave the health center I feel accomplished I feel
like I've done everything that I needed to do that day I'm not worried about my
patients I know that we followed protocols I know that we followed
evidence-based medicine I know that all the studies are there to back up what
I'm practicing and so it's a wonderful feeling to go home knowing that I don't
have to worry about my patients I feel happy that I have found a job that
allows me to work in line with my mission and wanting to help people
I'm wanting to just kind of have casual conversation with lots of younger girls
and coach them on how to have a reproductive life plan so I enjoy
knowing that I have a schedule full of young females who I get to kind of just
chat with and then help support whatever their dreams are so that makes me really
happy most days I feel really accomplished we
do so much in a 10-hour day we'll see anywhere between 20 and 40 patients in
one day and so I feel very accomplished with what we've done for the day and
ready to do it all over again the next day