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Professionalism In Home Care

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What is professionalism? There are many definitions and approaches of professionalism of each and every person. My definition of professionalism is when a worker is trustworthy, approachable, knows how to handle the situation, being on time, organized, positive attitude, dependable, committed, respectable, and empathetic. When a person is in a professional setting they need to be there physically and mentally. It is not professional to be at work but discuss with your colleagues about what had happened when you were not at work.
I worked in a home care staffing company in Ann Arbor as an office assistant 2 years ago. In a home care staffing company, the company provided physical therapist, occupational therapist, nurses to home care where the patients needed care. My job as an assistant was to fax any kind of invoices the physical therapists provided to me to email or fax it to the company they were working for and sometimes visit their office for additional office matters. When the invoices reached to the company they were to log the work that was done and give a check so we can pay to the workers. …show more content…

They would either not have their checks ready neither did they log the paper work correctly and was giving a hard time to our company. When I visited their office to discuss what the matter was and while speaking and noticing the action of the office manager I knew where the trouble was. The office manager herself was not doing a very good job at her work.
Although I had made an appointment to meet her at a certain time, she was not there to meet me and because of her not being on time I had to wait an hour to get my work done. She had brought her lunch and was trying to discuss the work, which was very distracting and

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