December Post

During break I went to volunteer for 3 hours on the 20th, 22nd-23rd, and 29th-30th. On the 20th, I helped out in the day room with some patients do some activity for Christmas. There was one table doing gingerbread houses and another doing Christmas trees and gingerbread mans. I helped out at the gingerbread man and Christmas tree table. 

On the 22nd, I had a task and it was to go to both nurse station and clean out all the research cabinets and take out all the binders. With the binders, I went to the conference office to throw away all the papers inside the binders and the broken binders too.  

November Post

On the 3rd and the 10th of November, I spent 3 hours helping nurses on the annual nursing skills day. It is about how well the nurses' skills have been improving and what are the new thing that are being changed in the hospital. The first day I was helping out the wound care table and my roll was to give a little quiz that had to do with the display board and they had to match the picture with the stage of the wound and the display board. Then on the last day the 10th of nurses skills day, I was working at the check in table where all the employees had to check in and get a guide to where they are suppose to go and get a stamp on every station they were supposed to go to. Then they would return the paper and take a survey.   

  During Thanksgiving Break, I spent my Tuesday and Wednesday mornings helping make admission packets and print papers for the packets for both nurses stations.  

Blog 10:EQ

Content

1.   Review this.  Confirm by stating "I reviewed the rule of three for writing an EQ."

Essential Question 
Once a topic is chosen, the student will develop a working essential question.  The purpose of the working essential question is to help the student build a strong foundation of research which will allow him or her to create an essential question that encourages depth and rigor in the chosen topic.  An essential question must:

• Provide a framework for studies (It calls for breadth and depth of research, Is not a yes/no question)
• Take a stance (It allows you to argue some point, Cannot be a recitation of facts or a list)
•  Format (It is specific, The wording makes sense)

I have reviewed the rule of three for writing an EQ.

2.  Review the following EQs and

• Tell us if each meets the rule of three.
• Tell why they do or don't.

 a.  What is the most important factor in healthy weight loss?

• Yes, it tells what is the person's topic and can be argued and supported with research.  

 b.  What is most important to securing a conviction in a criminal investigation?

• No, wording doesn't make sense if it was, " What is the most important factor in..."

 c.  What is most important in creating a hairstyle that best satisfies a customer?

• No, the wording doesn't make sense in the beginning. 

 d.  How can an anesthesiologist best treat chronic pain?

• Yes, the EQ is clear and allows for multiple answers with supported research. 

3.  Based on your review of the rule of 3 and your experience with assessing four EQs, please write another draft EQ for your senior project.  The senior team will be meeting with students shortly for EQ revision and approval; you are expected to bring your research notebook to that meeting with your EQ draft written inside in pencil.

What is the best way to educate and help nurses in protecting themselves and others from infectious diseases and illnesses?

Blog 9:Lesson 1 Reflection

1. Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your Lesson 1 Presentation and why? 
I'm proud that even though I was nervous, I got all of my points out and I knew everything that I learned from my research check. 

2. Questions to Consider
       a.What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 1 Presentation (self-assessment)? 
I would give myself a P. 

       b. Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 1 component contract.     
I deserve  P because I met all of the criteria for a P. I had a props the scrubs, gloves, the face mask, and the hair net, my lesson plan was accurate and on time, and I turned in this on time. I cited my articles and explained how it relates to my mentorship. Also demonstrated on how to put on the personal protective equipment.



3. What worked for you in your Lesson 1?

I think what worked for me is that I made time and I felt like I was very self-explanatory about how to use the protective equipment and how I found some answers for my working EQ.

4.  (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 1?
If I could go back in time I wish I could of practiced a little more. I had so much information that I wanted to point out but I guess that all the information that I knew kind of didn't come out as how I planned. Also I wished I used note cards so that I have all my information that knew on the cards.  

Extra October Post:October

This month at my mentorship wasn't that interesting. I did the same thing every time I went there; file papers, made mission packets for new patients, and put labels on patient's paper work. On the 25th both of nurses station was not busy at the time and I didn't know what to do. So I went to both patient's library/visiting room and organized the bookshelves for like an hour. When it was down to my last hour, I ended up just standing waiting for my hour to end in the east wing of the hospital in the patient library. Then suddenly a nurse was me standing and asked me to go to each patient room and check the glove compartment if they need any more of each size. I did that for a good solid hour until my 2 hours were up. Also this month, I interviewed my mentor and I learned so much about her journey on how she became a doctor in the Philippines and then a nurse here in America.  

Blog 8 - Research and Working EQ

1.  What is your working EQ?

• What is the best way to educate and help nurses in protecting themselves from infectious diseases and illnesses?    

2.  What is a possible answer to your working EQ? Please write the answer in thesis format. 

• Nurses that work with isolation patients should be informed about the how to protect themselves with the materials that are given to them.
• Staffing and other nurses should help each other in educating and training each other on how to protect themselves by using all of their resources. 

3.  What is the most important source you have used that has helped you come up with an answer to your working EQ?

• The most important source that I've used is where I go volunteer at every Saturday, by my observation and talking to other nurses on how they keep their nurses and volunteers protected and informed about ways to not get an infectious disease and transfer it to another patient.  

4.  Who is your mentor, or where are you doing mentorship, and how does what you are doing relate to your working EQ? 

• My mentor is Gloria Detabali and she has helped me in the past on understanding the nursing profession, she has told me that working in the profession is a very risky job because not matter how much you protect yourself from not getting the infected with a sickness or disease with vaccines or protective scrubs and gloves, you have a chance in getting it but having the right education and proper training it is possible that it will not get it.   

Blog 7: Independent Component 1 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

• For my 30 hours for my Independent Component 1, I will be watching videos online about nursing. I will also go visit my mentor Gloria at Citrus Inter-Community Hospital and observe and get advice on nursing. I've also kept in mind to take some classes in January that are related nursing like a diabetes class or a patient safety class.    

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence. 

• I plan to take pictures of me watching videos and talking to my mentor at the hospital about my topic to show evidence of 30 hours. 

3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

• I will create a journal and always keep my Independent Component 1 log up to date on what I learned and observed when mentoring Gloria and videos that I watched and that were recommend by Gloria and other nurses that she works with. 
  

Nursing Crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep1ZVAs88sM

This month during research check 5, I've discovered something interesting about nursing. This video talks about how healthcare sectors believe that nursing is in a crisis. Nurses are pushed to a limit with long hours and low salary packages. There is people that are still interested in the profession but early in the current government, they closed all the nursing colleges for a long time. Then they started opening it up but that has a lag effect because the nurses that are going into those colleges now takes four years to get through them. That's why some students that want to enter the profession, jungle getting the education from college about nursing and getting hands on training in nursing.

Blog 6: Second Interview Preparation

1.  Who is your mentor and where do they work?
 My mentor is Gloria  Detabali who is a RN at Citrus Inter-Community Hospital. She has a background of being a doctor in the Philippines.   

2.  What five questions will you ask them about their background?

1. How long have you been in working in Citrus Inter-Community Hospital? 
2. Where did you go to school? What made you choose to be a doctor then become a RN? 
3. How long have you been in the nursing and doctor profession for?
4. What are some challenges that you faced when you decided to become a nurse in America?
5. What is you best advice you can give to a person who wants to be in this profession? 

Blog 5: Mentorship and Research Reflection

Mentorship question: Describe your experience in how you found your mentorship?

• Finding a mentor was kind of hard for me to find. During the summer I didn't have a mentor at first, but a couple of weeks ago I found two mentors that will help me and answer my questions for my senior project. 

Research question: What has been your most important article you have read so far and why?

•  The most important article the I have read so far is a book called, "Change Your Career: Nursing As Your New Profession" by Barbara Arnoldussen. This book helped me discover the nursing profession more interesting. While reading the book, it helped me answer my EQ and also gave me more information about the profession that I didn't know.When I read the book, I found out that the nursing profession is branched to 36 different types of nurses. I didn't know that there is a pacifically for head and neck injures, helping a newly mother how to breastfeed, and that care and support patients that are diagnosed with cancer. Also, I discovered that there is a nurse that works at camps, government and private agencies, a flight nurse that helps transfer patients by helicopter or ambulance, and nurses that work in the Navy, Army, and Air Force to provide medical care for the soldiers.        

First Day Of Mentorship

I've visited Casa Colina couple of times before school started. During my time there, I had my first orientation of the hospital and then I was introduced to my advisers who are in charged in the department that I was assigned to. During the tour, I observed how the staff was courageous and how the hospital is very nice and neat. At my second orientation, I was introduced to where I was placed which was at Patient Safety. The three advisers of the department introduce themselves and explained the Patient Safety Program and duties. After that, one of the advisers gave a tour of the east and west wing of the hospital and showed where each office and cleanlinens and supply closets were located. Then an other adviser explained the proper way to wash hands and rub handitizer correctly. Then were given at clinical orientation about patient safety and what each patient wrist bands meant, like yellow wrist bands are for patients that are in risk in falling and isolation precaution signs were. Also explained each code meant like code blue is patient not breathing and what communication boards were used for; patient info, contacts, nurses, allergies, etc. I haven't had a lot of hands on volunteering experience there, so every Saturday I will be going there for three to four hours there to gain more knowledge about Patient Safety.  
 

Blog 4: Interview Preperation

1.Who do you plan to interview?  Why?
    The person that I'm going to interview is Elvessa my mother who is a nurse. I want to interview her because she has been in the field of nursing for about15 years, so she has experienced patient safety for a long time that she can guide me with my project.

2.You have to ask 5 questions.  What additional questions do you plan to ask?

1. How long have most nurses been on the unit?
2. What steps do you take to ensure safe working conditions?
3. What challenges is this facility facing?
4. How will you deal with difficult patients and/or their families?
5. Can you describe a time when you had to intervene for a patient, what you did, and why? What was the outcome? 

      Additional Questions 

• How do you motivate patients?
• What would you do if you were caring for an alert patient who suddenly got acutely confused and disoriented?
• How to deal with patients that have a hard time communicating with nurses? 
• What are the national patient safety goals?
• Do you learn something new every time you are at work? Like new technique or new discovery of a patient's illness. 
• What are some challenges that you faced with a patient? 

  
    
  

Blog 3: Topic Choice and Working EQ

1. List your topic:

• Nursing (Patient Safety) 

2. Write a question that helps to focus your research this month.

• As a nurse, what are some challenges that are faced in patient safety? 

  

Blog Post 2: Summer Mentorship

1)  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DcBqC-Wa085D5DGLuWPylIwBpJoXi5XmC4oiiMBEOhg/edit#gid=0

2. Mentors Contact:

Jack Griswold
Heart To Heart (CPR Class)
(714)-891-5620

Christine Chaaban
Casa Colina Centers for Rehabilitation
(909)-596-7733 x2154

3. Questions that raised up:

• What are the best ways to make a patient feel like they are in a friendly environment?
• As a registered nurse, is it a good place to start at rehabilitation center?
• What’s process of taking a patient to the next level of treatment?
• Do I want to be a registered nurse at a rehab facility or at a community hospital?

4.  The most important thing I gained from my mentorship is that the rehab facility it is a lot of interactions with each patient. I was able to see how the nurses get to communicate with their patient in so many ways. I got a better understanding about how to keep the patient happy and comfortable at there stay at the rehab center.

5. My senior project is about nursing. Being a volunteer at Casa Colina has taught me a lot of ways that a nurse interacts with their patients and how to help them progress from one level of achievement to the next at their stay at Casa Colina. The rehab center helped me by giving me a little experience with patients and interactions with some of the patients at the center.      

2-Hour Presentaions

1. The presentations that I saw were:
       Wednesday 5/21:
           -Dilan Desai: Pharmacy
           -Regina Rizo: Teaching Elementary
           -Viviana Bravo: Photography Galleries
       Thursday 5/22:
           -Michelle Ortega: Neonatal Nursing Intensive Care
           -Symphony Moreno: Photography
           -Jeremy Ethridge: EMT(First Aid)
        Friday 5/23:
           -Jackie Gaeta: Women's Nutrition
           -Angle Flores: Photography Studio
        Tuesday 5/27:
           -Christian Demesa: Clinical Pharmacy
           -Beladona Ontiveros: Bakery
        Wednesday 5/28
            -Ralph Hernandez: Pharmaceutical
            -Lara McConnaughey: Linguistics
            -Mark Patena: Hip Hop Dance Choreography
        Thursday 5/29
             -Allyana Salud: Nursing
             -Luz Cervantes: Cake Decorating
             -Daisy Zavala: Animal Care

2. What is the key thing to remember when doing senior presentations?
    
3. When going to all the presentations some of the things I picked up from them and I think that are important parts on senior project. When picking presenting in front of people/ fellow classmates, you have to look confidante, relaxed, give a lot of information about your topic, and don't use and read off your notes that much.

4. I've thinking of doing something related to the medical field like nursing, pharmacist, neonatal nursing care, or nutritionist. I picked those because I know some people that can get me mentors for those topics.

5. I enrolled myself it volunteer at Citrus Valley Medical Center- Queen of the Valley and at Citrus Valley Medical Center- Inter-Community. And I'm trying to enroll myself at Loma Linda University Health for my internship.