February post

My interview with Elvessa really helped me find my second answer and understand it more than from the research I've been doing. She helped me understand how using Personal Protective Equipment is one of the best way to protect nurses besides hand hygiene. She told me that when nurses use PPE (for short) that it protects the whole body of the nurse and that all the microscopic germs that nurses get from going to each patient can transfer to another patient. Also she told me that when they use PPE it helps protect not just the nurses but also patients because when nurses come in contact with a patient with an infectious disease it is possible that it can be transferred to another patient by the nurse. So when nurses use PPE they stop the spread of diseases and protect everyone including themselves.

Blog 16: Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?

•   How can nurses best protect themselves from infectious diseases?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

•  One of the best ways for nurses to protect themselves from infectious diseases is hand hygiene. 

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

•   One of the best ways for nurses to protect themselves from infectious diseases is using their protective equipment like gloves, face masks, scrubs, etc properly.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

• In hospitals, when their are precaution signs outside a patient's room, it means that contact with the patient and with anything that is inside the room is contaminated.
•  The two nurses that came in contact with Ebola while caring for an Ebola patient, used a special protective equipment to protect themselves from getting it themselves but some how they got it for the reason is that they maybe didn't put their PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) properly. 
• At my mentorship, anyone that enters a patient's room with any precaution sign on their or enter any isolation room, there is PPE provided in the front of the door to anyone who enters the room.

 5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

•  Staf, Guidance For Nursing. "Wipe It out One Chance to Get It Right."

 6.  What other source supports your answer?

• Case, Bette, and Joan Fox Rose. "Ebola and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Best Practices to Keep Nurses Safe."

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

• Working at a hospital as a nurse, they are at risk in catching a health care-acquired infection (HAI) so using the Personal Protective Equipment properly can lower the risk in catching HAIs. 
  
  a health care-acquired infection (HAI) or inadvertently spreading infection from one patient to another. - See more at: http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/static?pageid=811924#sthash.JIf2nNGb.dpuf
  a health care-acquired infection (HAI) or inadvertently spreading infection from one patient to another. - See more at: http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/static?pageid=811924#sthash.JIf2nNGb.dpuf
  a health care-acquired infection (HAI) or inadvertently spreading infection from one patient to another. - See more at: http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/static?pageid=811924#sthash.JIf2nNGb.dpuf
  a health care-acquired infection (HAI) or inadvertently spreading infection from one patient to another. - See more at: http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/static?pageid=811924#sthash.JIf2nNGb.dpuf

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

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

• For my 30 hours I planning to volunteer at the school's spring blood drive. Continue to volunteer at my mentorship and try to got their on Fridays and Saturdays for more than 3 hours. 

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

• I'll take pictures of me volunteering at the red cross and at me mentorship.

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

• This component will allow me get more hands on work, interacting with nurses and other volunteers when I join and volunteer at the Red Cross. At my mentorship they are restructuring the volunteer program so I will more than helping in the nurses stations but I will be doing more interactions with patients like clear off patient’s tray table before breakfast, lunch, and dinner to ease the process of meal tray delivery, transport patients requiring feeding assistance to and from the day room before and after breakfast, lunch, and dinner, ensure patient’s water is filled, and provide any other tasks within their knowledge base.

4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.
Senior Project Hours

Independent Component 1

Literal  

• (a) I, Adriane Parale affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 33 hours of work.

•  (b)       

• Ballard, Karen A. "Patient Safety: A Shared Responsibility." Online Journal of Issues in Nursing 8.3 (2003): Manuscript 4. Nursing World. Web. 03 Sept. 2003.
• "The Future of Nursing: Focus on Education." Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. National Academy of Science, 10 Feb. 2011. Web. 21 Aug. 2014.
• Ishan Mesa, nurse at Casa Colina
• Nurses: If Florence Can See Us Now (Documentary)  

• (c)Senior Log

• (d) To complete my 30 hours from my independent component 1, I attended Casa Colina every Saturday and threw November break for 2-3 hours a day. At times I would do rounds, which is I would go to each patient room and see if the need of any assistance. Sometimes I would go to each patient's room and see if the glove compartment is full with each size or do paper work and put incoming admins charts together. Also I watched a documentary on the foundation of nursing.  

INTERPRETIVE 

A film the gives a point of view of nurses across the country about nursing.  

I helped reorganized each nursing binder and threw away old paperwork.

2014 Annual Skills Day

APPLIED

This component helped me understand the foundation of being a nurse because it showed me that communication and interaction with patients is one of the keys in this profession. The film Nurse: If Florence Could See Us Now helped me understand a rare look into the complex, exciting and challenging world of being a nurse. Also volunteering at a hospital helped me understand that nursing is so important because people need to be nurtured and be supported throughout their treatment and stay at the hospital. 

January Post

This month all I did is go to mentorship and do the same thing, filing papers and help out patients that need in some assistance. If finished my 50 hours and my independent component last week. While doing my independent component, I've learned that it's important that nurses have to properly put on their PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) when it comes to taking care of patients with an infection.