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.