April Post

At my mentorship, training started for the volunteers. The first day of training, my instructor taught me the basics that I should kind of know. He showed me how to preform pastoral care rounds, know the information on the patient's board and know if they can have regular water or Frazier water, and deliver meals to patients. On the second day my instructor taught me how to make patient's bed, pass out water to patients, take dirty equipment from the soiled utility room to dirty side of Central Supply. 

Blog 19: Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) I, Adriane Parale, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 36 hours of work.
(b) -Heinasmaki, Terhi, and Ainna Fawcett-Henesy. "Infection And Infectious Diseases."
     -Frompovich, Catherine J. "Do Nurses Have It Right About Vaccinations?"
     -O'Connor, Anahad. "Health and Wellness - Well Blog - NYTimes.com."
     -Infection Control, Personal Protective Equipment/Body Substance Exposure by Citrus Valley Health Partners. 
(c) Hours 
(d) For my independent component two, at my mentorship I started my 3 day training for the new volunteer program. The first day I was assigned to shadow a Patient Care Technician. He showed me the basic elements of training, like answering call lights, delivering food trays and clear off all trays once staff has recorded % eaten, and proper application and removal of Personal Protective Equipment. Also I've volunteered at the school's blood drive and made sure that each downer checked in with their IDs and made sure that after giving blood they don't faint.
 
 INTERPRETIVE 
This really help me interact with the patients more and do more hands on work outside the nurses' station at my mentorship. The first day of training really helped me understand the importance of just the basics of my training which were knowing the visiting hours to making a patient's bed to knowing the proper application and removal of PPE. The blood drive also helped me understand that to make sure that if a patient/downer has traveled outside the U.S. that they have to make sure how long that person as been out. For the reason is that they have caught an infectious diseases after their stay outside the states.

     

APPLIED 
With the new volunteer program, the training that I'm getting helps me understand how nurses protect themselves from infectious disease by myself protecting too. The knowledge that a gained on my first day of training helped me understand my first and second answer which is hand hygiene and personal protective equipment. Also with the research that I did help me get more facts about my first two answers and a little more of my foundation of my E.Q. With the blood drive, my observations helped me understand how the nurses preform infection control in any setting. This component has allowed me to understand both of my first two answers more of the foundation because I was able to experience both of my answers. 

March Post

So all of March I did the same thing I would do at my mentorship, help out in the nurse's station, file papers, and walk around and make sure if any of the patients are in need of help. I started to do my independent component 2 at my mentorship and today the blood dive committee had a meeting with Thomas the blood dive coriander and just gave us information about the blood dive and rules for people to donate blood. But starting next month (hopefully) at my mentorship they will start this whole new system for the volunteers where they interact with the nurses more and the volunteers will start training soon with our instructor. And we get to be trained on transporting patients to the day room for lunch, how to feed them, and clear meal trays after hospital staff has recorded % eaten.

Fourth Interview Questions

1. What experiences have you had with patients with infections? 
2. What causes nurses to get an infectious disease? 
3. What can a nurse do to prevent infections from spreading?
4. What steps do nurses take to maintain low infection rates?
5. What are some of the things that hospitals are doing to prevent infectious diseases?
6. What are standard precautions?
7. How do standard precautions apply to all patients no matter their diagnosis? 
8. How could you help family members of a patient prevent infectious diseases?
9. How could you help the patient with infectious disease prevent acquiring it?
10. What are the medications that makes/prevent infectious diseases?
11. Besides hand hygiene, proper use of PPE, and vaccinations; how can nurses protect themselves?
12. What can you do if you acquire an infectious diseases?
13. If a patient is under the age of 18, what can parents do to prevent getting infectious diseases?
14. How do you keep patients that had an infectious disease acquiring it again?
15. How could the family prevent acquiring infectious diseases if one of their family members has been infected before?  
16. What are the common hospital acquired infectious diseases? 
17. How can the hospital help patients stop the spreed of infectious diseases?
18. Why we acquired infectious diseases?
19. How can nurses help patients with infectious diseases?
20. How can a patient in isolation recover then a patient that is not in an isolation room recover from an infectious disease?

Blog 17: Third Answer

Content:

Just like you did for answer 1 and 2 post your:
 

EQ: 

• How can nurses best protect themselves from infectious diseases?

Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*

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

3 details to support the answer (a detail is a fact and an example)

• Nurses come into contact with patients with different types of diseases and may contract infections, according to the CDC. 
• It provides some protection for nurses at work in the healthcare settings. 
• Vaccines are one of the best ways to put an end to the serious effects of preventable diseases.

The research source (s) to support your details and answer

• "Infection Prevention & Control." http://www.heywood.org/services/infection-prevention-and-control

• "10 Best Strategies for Infection Prevention and Control." <http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/10-best-strategies-for-infection-prevention-and-control.html>.

Concluding Sentence

• Vaccinations are like a invisible shield for nurses to protect themselves from infectious diseases.  

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