Blog 9 - Advisory Prep 3

1. State whether or not you currently have a mentor, and what the status of your interview is with that person (I have completed the interview, I have scheduled the interview, I have not scheduled the interview, etc).

• I do currently have a mentor, i have not yet scheduled my interview with her but i know that it would be easy to get an interview with her. 

2. At this point, your research is probably guiding your studies toward more specific areas within your topic.  Name the area or two you find most promising and explain your reasons.  

• I am more focused on caring for adult cancer patients and how to deal with them when they have no more treatment available. 

3. What kinds of sources do you think will help you in the next month to gain more research depth?  Where will you go to get them?

• In my opinion, I think that the best sources I can get are oncology nursing books/magazines. I will go get them either at the library or also ask my mentor to lend me hers. 

4. Write down a possible EQ.  Please don't worry about wording other than ensuring that it provides the option for multiple correct answers.  At this point, the senior team is most interested in understanding your thought process.

• What is the best way to deal with a patient that has no more hope or treatment? 

Blog-8 Independent Component 1 Proposal

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

• For my 30 hours of my independent component i will be working extra with my mentor. Aside from only going on Thursdays, i will extend that and go another day of the week as well. The down side of my mentors schedule is that she does not work weekends so i wont be able to work with her on weekends.

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

• Well to prove that i have gone an extra day a week that includes only my 30 hours and not my mentor-ship is by taking a volunteer sheet and making my mentor fill it out.  

3.  Explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

• By doing extra hours with my mentor, it will help me go into more depth about my topic because i will be able to learn a lot more and spend more hours with my mentor. That will be convenient for her and i because doing only one day a week isn't enough to learn all the aspects of nursing.

Blog 6- Advisory Prep

                                

1. What has worked well for you concerning senior project this year?  What has made it a positive experience for you?  

• The thing that has worked really well for me in my project as of now is me being able to find a mentor in nursing. This made it a positive experience for me because i wanted to do my senior project in nursing since the beginning but it was hard for me to find a mentor until my friend introduced me to someone she knows.

2. What are you finding difficult concerning senior project?  How can you adapt to make that portion work better for you?  How might the senior team help?

• I think the thing that I'm having difficulty with is the fact that the mentor I got is an oncologist nurse which is not the type of nurse I wanted. Even though I didn't get the nurse in the field I wanted, I'm still happy because I got a mentor in nursing and she can refer me to other nurses in different specialties and then maybe I can get a nurse in the field I would like. As of now, there is nothing I can do really but maybe ask her if she can introduce me to a neonatal nurse at her hospital. This isn't really something the senior team can help me with, it's something I would have to figure out myself.