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?