Senior Project Reflection

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your 2-Hour Presentation and/or your senior project? Why?

A:  I am most proud of having able to bring Mauricia Copada, my second/third/fourth interviewee to speak during my two hour. It's a touch job to bring any kind of nurse in to speak due to the fact that she works full time and works in Pediatrics so I know she must be exhausted. But she ended up coming anyways last minute and took the day off just for me.  She told me the day before my presentation, "No mijo, just be yourself. You're a great young man and I'm really proud of you. I'm happy that there are still a lot of hard working young people like you. You are our future. I mean that with all my hearrt. I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't think you are great, for real." As you read, I am most proud of this because she really is a great nurse in general and I am glad I had the opportunity to share her knowledge/kindness to the audience.

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your 2-Hour Presentation (self-assessment)? Why?

I didn't memorize my whole presentation. I did look at my notes quite a few times but nontheless, I did meet the time required and I did educate them my answers and what a LVN is and the material was understood. I did fix some information I left out in the end but it was covered. The clarirty of my tone was just right and I had enthusiasm and my presentation wasn't boring like others. I entertained the audience while educating them at the same time.

AE            P            AP            CR            NC

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)? Why?

I give myself an overall assesment of a P because I did all that was required and not one component is missing. I tried my best in each individual component, even with obstacles in the way and I got them done. What I learned overall my senior project and what I acomplished is out of my belief. It is what Ipoly taught me even if I do receive bad grades. It has shown me that there is a reason for each project they give us because in the end we might be destined to do something great in the world. (Look at the last answer)

AE             P            AP            CR            NC

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

Finding articles was the easiest out of everything in the senior project. Nursing is a big branch spread out into many different little branches which gave me a variety of things to search up and use for my research. 

(4) What didn’t work for you in your senior project?

The service learning did not work very well with me. It took me forver to finally come to a place where it wouldn't be a hassle to volunteer at everyday.
Finding my interviewees came quite easy for me. Seeing that I had connections in Kaiser, I easily found my LVNs to interview.  It was just the laziness of actually getting them done was the problem and their busy schedules =.

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples. 

The senior project helped me to undestand what I really want to pursue as a career. I want to become a Nurse Practitioner. I want to be able to make a difference in the medical field;big or small. The senior project has also changed my unemployment title that I have as of right now. Ana Velasquez (Department Administrator in Pediatrics) offered me an employment opportunity to work in Pediatrics (which is my dream to work there). Of course I graciously agreed. Without the push from Melogno and the nudge from Mr. Ogden, this would have never had happened if I stopped trying to get volunteer service hours there. 

-Thank you I-poly. You did something right, 

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2 hour template

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Service Learning

Content:

(1) LIA Response to blog:

Literal

 

Hours: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10AZtNFY9ZCSqvEnftgWmb4m_YS5y8CgOJrqX7YUqAqQ/edit

Ricky, Maria, Ana

Activity Coordinators

Contact Number: (626) 960-1971

Interpretive

The most important thing I learned from this experience is making connections with the patients and being able to be emotionally stable and not take everything to the heart because if you do, then you won't be able to go throughout the day. For example, let's say you are with a patient who cannot eat from the mouth, but eats through a tube. Lets say it's lunch time and all the other patients in the convalescent home are eating except for them. They tell you they are hungry and you're about to give them food, when out of nowhere Maria comes along and says no she cannot eat from the mouth. She can choke. I was astonished yet saddened by this. I told her I'm sorry you can choke. Your nurse will be right with you to feed you. She starts to whimper and says she's really hungry but I can't give her food and I feel so bad. I feel like im neglecting her. The nurse told me to not worry about it. Just go on to finish my duties and her nurse will be here soon. Well after some time of being at Sierra Care View, I started to stabalize my emotions with the seniors there.  I know if they were to cry or get mad, it was out of caring and love and not because we didn't like them. It's because we care for their health.

    

Applied

Well like I explained above, this answered my Essential question because all the LVNs (from observing there) need emotional stability when dealing with patients who are in pain all the time, the ones who have alzheimers, the patients who are in wheel chairs for the rest of their life or the patients who cannot eat normally like the rest of the patients there.

(Unfortunately) Helping 2013 (Kidding, sorta)

Who did you interview: Gabriel Barreras
What day and time: 11:30
(1) What ideas do you have for your senior project and why?

• One idea I've have for a long time is law in general. I've always been interested in law and I want to be a lawyer for my future career.
• Natalie Luna is doing her senior project on criminal law. Yoy may want to talk to her for ideas about service learning or anything else and make you sure you specify what kind of lawyer.

(2) What do you plan to do to complete the 10 hours of service learning (working with an expert) which is due prior to senior year starting? Note: They also have to complete the 50 hours during the school year.

• I'm not entirely sure yet. I want to volunteer at a law firm. I have a cousin who is a lawyer, so I am hoping I can go to his firm and volunteer there.
• Before even summer starts, make sure you talk to your cousin and see how logn th process will take to start volunteering and if he says that you won't be able to volunteer, start searching elsewhere. That will give you enough time to look for another and have a backup place to get your hours done which are very crucial before you begin your senior year. Make sure you make great connections with the people at the law firm. It will help you answer your essential question. 

(3) What do you hope to see or expect to see when watching the class of 2012 present their two hour presentations?

• I would expect to learn a lot. I hope to see the environment and structure of the presentation so I can get an idea of how to setup my two-hour.
• Make sure you pay attention to how the overall structure of the senior presentation. I recommened you go to Natalie Luna's presentation. Pay attention because something might catch your eye that you would like to do for your two hour.  

(4) What questions do they have about senior project? What additional recommendations would you give the 2013 student about senior project? Be specific and note what you told them.

• The senior project is composed of two Independent Components, Service Learning, Science Fair, Interviews (4), Mini Presentation on your answer in response to your essential question. Make sure you have a service learning place or it will catch up with your interviews and log hours.
• For the five minute presentation, make sure your answer is not too general. Be as specific as you can. Make sure it ties around your essential question. DON'T miss the dates to turn in your senior project components. Check your Senior Project Contract all the time.

Independent Component 2

Literal

(a) Statement saying: “I, student name, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”

(b) Assisting Licensed Vocational Nurses with whatever they needed. Helping the patients in need and assisting their every need, of course with supervision of the nurses. Leading activities with the seniors in the convalescent home.

Interpretive

Significant parts of my volunteer work is getting to know the long-term patient and seeing how I, myself can improve patient care with nurses. I would tell the nurses that the patient needs attention or the patient needs your assistance. I would try my best to assist every patient in need when the nurses weren't there because at times the nurses would leave me alone with the paitnets. Imagine me surrounded by old folk. I would have gone crazy, but surprisingly I did not. I loved helping every single one.

Applied

Honestly, from just observing. Why you ask? Well all the nurses in the Rowland Convalescent Home are all bitter to be brutally honest. It is what it is. For example, looking at the nurses go from day to day task like taking the patients vital signs, to simply TRYING to be an empathetic nurse, or distributing their daily medication. What I've seen so far is that the staff try to push each other to improve the patient quality there. It's hard because all the nurses are ignorant to one another but they really do focus on their long-term patient. 

Grading Criteria

· Log (calendar or list)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10AZtNFY9ZCSqvEnftgWmb4m_YS5y8CgOJrqX7YUqAqQ/edit

Answer #3

Essential Question: What is most essential to being a Licensed Vocational Nurse?

Answer 3: LVNs feel the joy of seeing a baby born or feelthe pain of losing a long-term patient who became closer than expected. Emotional stability is crucial when being an LVN in order to survive the everyday emotional roller coaster LVNs endure with daily.

Evidence:
Mauricia Copado (my third interviewee)says she can't let her emotions control her every day tasks since she sees sick patients everyday in the Pediatrics Department. If she does then she will fall into a depressed state and won't be able to work.

Nursing is a stressful job where traumatic situations are common. The ability to accept suffering and death without letting it get personal is crucial. Some days can seem like non-stop gloom and doom. That’s not to say that there aren’t heartwarming moments in nursing. Helping a patient recover, reuniting families, or bonding with fellow nurses are special benefits of the job. Just don’t come to expect it. Leave the happy endings for Grey’s Anatomy. :) (Rowland Convalescent Home)

Nurses must have the emotional stability to deal with the stresses that accompany the nursing field. For example, nurses must have coping skills to handle patients who are in extreme pain. Also, nurses must care for patients who die from their injuries or medical conditions, or who die after their health was improving. Nurses must emotionally handle unexpected events and emergencies such as the ones explained above. (Article #47)

http://www.best-job-interview.com/nursing-interview-questions.html

Source(s:
Volunteering at the Rowland Convalescent Home.
Article #47
Mauricia Copado (Interviewee)