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Northwell Health

Healthcare Management Summer Associate

June - August 2018 • Long Island City, NY

What I liked

The people were so welcoming and made work fun

What I wish was different

The beginning was slow, so I wish there had been more guidance from the start

Advice

The more initiative you put in, the more you'll learn
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Disaster Recovery Intern

June - August 2018 • Melville, NY

What I liked

I have acquired an abundance of information from my internship so far such as hard skills as well as soft skills. Working closely alongside with Disaster Recovery Specialists on my team has allowed me to gain knowledge on how an application is structured and all of the recoverable options that are available for them. Depending on the criticality of an application, there is a Tier assigned to it. Tier 0 are the systems supporting underlying backbone or core infrastructure layer services. These systems need hot site recovery. Tier 4 are considered non-essential systems supporting standalone or departmental functions, operations, non-core clinical care services, non-critical business functions and infrastructure utilities. These systems are generally recovered through cold standby. A hot site means that a system has high availability, and is of Active/Active status. Active/Active is an expensive model of infrastructure which allows a server environment to be duplicated with another. Multiple servers generally host the same application and are in constant replication with one another so that the database servers that point to the application server are in sync. A piece of networking equipment known as a load-balancer monitors the traffic between the environments (if they are in separate data centers) and redirects clients to which ever server is less congested with other end users. Cold Standby-Build from Scratch refers to a system that needs to be built and started on request when a backup environment does not exist. This is the cheapest option of recoverability. Hot sites have minimal RTO’s (Recovery Time Objective) and cold sites have higher ones. The RTO is basically the time it takes for a system to recover and be back online. I have also learned a great amount about DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a service), IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), and PaaS (Platform as a Service).

What I wish was different

Perhaps getting exposure to different aspects of information security other than disaster recovery.

Advice

Any internship is what you make of it. Its important to ask a ton of questions and be persistent when it comes to work flow. You have a better chance of someone wanting to develop you if they know you are passionate.
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Finance and Operations Summer Associate

June - August 2018 • New York City, NY

What I liked

Great experience with immense learning opportunity and mentoring built-in. You really get to do real work!

What I wish was different

I wish communication had been better about return offers

Advice

If you want to have a hands on project management experience - no matter your field - and help people along the way, APPLY!
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Nurse Extern

June - August 2018 • New Hyde Park, NY

What I liked

I liked getting hands on nursing experience outside of the clinical setting. It really made me feel independent and i learned so much

What I wish was different

I wish it was longer!

Advice

APPLY!!! one of the best experiences i’ve ever had. i feel so much more confident in clinical at school now
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Research Assistant

May - August 2017 • New York City, NY

What I liked

I had an amazing opportunity to do research on what I am passionate about, while being closely mentored by an amazing healthcare provider and advocate.

What I wish was different

I wish that I had learned of my acceptance to the internship program earlier-- if I had, I could have applied for funding through Wellesley.

Advice

I would really encourage a future intern to network with all of the different professionals in the hospital!
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