(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)

Answer 2

EQ = What is most essential to being a Licensed Vocational Nurse?

Answer 2 = What is most essential to being a LVN is alway playing your role in hospital quality improvement.

Evidence = Interviewing Mauricia Copado, I asked her what she believed is vital when it comes to nursing and she told me that you never stop learning. Nurses should be active learners and I asked her what she meant by "active learners" and she told me that nurses should look at where they can improve with their overall health care.

 Evidence = An Article I came across really opened my eyes because it explains that as the nation’s hospitals face increasing demands to participate in a wide range of quality improvement activities, the role and influence of nurses is also increasing, according to a new study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC). Some improvementsthat hospitals address to the LVN's are

Having adequate nursing staff when resources are scarce

Engaging nurses at all levels—from bedside to management;

Confronting traditional nursing education that does not always adequately prepare nurses for their evolving role in today’s contemporary hospital setting.

 Evidence = When volunteering at Kaiser Permanente, my Department Adiministrator Ana Velasquez told me who do the patients see the most. I answered her question by saying nures. She told me nurses are the heart and soul of the hospital. She told me even with the wonderful nurses they have, there will always be downfalls and mistakes being made everyday. She asked me to follow the nurses around and take note of how and what can nurses improve on. I took the challenege and got started right away. Something I found that they could improve on is taking time to input all the data recorded from the patient. I saw some nurses looked rush and scribbling out mistakes. Another thing is they looked rush. Patients shouldn't think you're in a rush. They should feel like you have all the time in the world to hear them out. The biggest important factor I saw that needs a lot of improvement is communication with the other nurses and physicians. Some get along well and others don't. They need to see that each one of them needs one another. The nurses need to communicate well with the physicians so they can administer the patients health correctly because any misleading information can not affect both their relationship, but the diagnosing of the patients health.

Source = For answer/evidence

 Mauricia Copado Interview 2

 Volunteering at Kaiser Permanente

 The Role of Nurses in Hospital Quality Improvement  by Debra. A Draper

The Product

Before volunteering/working in any medical environment, I had very little sympthay towards anyone really. If I was treated nicely or rudefully, I would do the same back. I was always taught to treat people how I would like to be treated. Of course, the little rebel that I am, that wasn't the case for me. It wasn't until my journey through the Kaiser Permanente Outreach Program that changed my whole aspect on this subject. In the medical field, whether you're a Nurse, Physician, Receptionist, you will get patients who look like they are in a hurry, worried about their child, anxious about going to the doctors, etc. You have to give them the benefit of the doubt which means assuming that their is a reason behind their behavior towards you because you really don't know who they are and they don't know who you are either. An example of this that I've encountered would have to be at the convalescent home I was volunteering in. There is this senior citzen who loves me so much and she was always sweet saying "thank you"and "I'm glad your here helping us". Except one day when I was passing out cards to each senior citizen, instead of starting on the right side of the room like I've done all the time, I started on the left because I was already there. Well she was on the far right and when I got to her she had her arms crossed and had this little snooty face on and she asked me in a angry tone why I skipped her. I told her I did not skip her that I was getting to her. She said, "No you don't like me anymore and I don't want to play." I thought about what I was going to say and I remembered "give them the benefit of the doubt. Look at where they came from and where they ended up now. I told her, "I like you and I would never skip you." She didn't forgive me but I myself was surprised I didn't answer rudefully. I was empathetic and I understood why she was upset. In the end she felt sorry and apologized to me. I told her not to be sorry. It is my fault.

Fourth Interview Questions

1. What is most important in being a Licensed Vocational Nurse?
2. What do you think are the most important qualities a nurse should have and why?
3. What type of mangement style do you work with best?
4. Is nursing a rewarding job?
5. What challenges have you faced during your nursing job?
6. What training did you through in order to become an LVN?
7. The difference between LVN's and and other nursing jobs out there?
8. How do you deal with the issue of being burned out?
9. Do you need brains for this job or people skills for this?
10. What should people do to get started on a nursing career?
11. Do you recommend to be a nurse?
12. What classes are you taking in order to be up to date with new LVN's out there? (Education)
13. How important is it to maintain a positive relationship with your health care unit?
14. When you are expecting a stressful situation how do you relax?
15. How do you go about making small or tough decisions?
16. Why did you choose to be a nurse over a doctor?
17. What has been the most important lessons you’ve learned as a LVN's?
18. How do you set priorties in your work?
19. Give me a specific example when you knew you did a good job as a nurse?
20. We have all tried being considerate of others. What are some things you have done to do that?

Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

(1) Write a description of what you plan on doing for your independent study component.
For my second independent study component I plan on going to Kaiser Permanente. I have already turned in my volunteer application and the lady said since I've worked there, my chances of getting to volunteer there are higher!

(2) Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement.

Ways on how I will plan to meet the 30 hour work requirement
-work with nurses
-help with projects they have in store for me (which they do)
-help out at the front desk
-shadow a nurse
-restock nursing supplies
-work with the doctors and see what they need assistance with

(3) How does your independent study component relate to your EQ?   

Well I will be working in a nursing environment full of LVN's, RN's, NP's, etc. I will not only get a view of a nursing environment but I will also be doing hands-on work that is related to nursing.