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. 

Blog 7- Second Interview Preperation

1. Who is your mentor and where do they work?

• My mentor is Elizabeth Davidson and she works at the City of Hope hospital in Duarte. 

2. What are five questions you will ask them about their background? 

• What was one of your best experiences? 
• How long did it take you to find a job in your specialty after getting your degree? 
• How many years did it take for you to reach the point to where you're at right now? 
• I know that there are a lot of downfalls but what do you like most about your job? 
• What has been your biggest challenge throughout your job?  

Blog 5- Interview 1 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  Is there anything I would do differently for other interviews?

• I learned many things about this interview, i learned what i need to do to be able to go into any nursing are I'm interested in. I also know what books/articles/magazines/journals to read if i want to get more of an idea on nursing.
• I would record from the beginning because my mentor and i had a conversation in the beginning that i didnt record. I would also not be as nervous and ask more and more questions and expand them.

2. Did I get additional resources and contacts?  What is the most useful?  Why?

• I have not at the moment but once I start mentoring with her i plan to ask other nurses at City of Hope. 

3. What makes my interviewee qualified to help me? 

• My interviewee makes herself qualified in helping me because she is a nurse so she can help through the process and other things. I will also ask her for help to see if i can contact other nurses as well.

Interview Link: https://soundcloud.com/alondiee/interview 

House Advisory Prep 1

For my senior project topic, I would like to accomplish being able to fully understand every aspect of teaching little kids. Its not only about giving them a lecture and expecting them to understand what they have to do. There is different things you would have to do to make every kid understand. Every kid is different and they all learn differently. For younger kids I think its much harder due to the fact that they are either to shy to ask for help or it can also be because at a younger age after school tutoring isn't available for them. As a teacher we have to make sure they know what they're doing. On the other hand there is also standards a person that wants to major in teaching needs to meet and I want to accomplish to excel those standards and become a great teacher. In mind these are the primary things I would want to accomplish while I do my senior project, however I would love to learn a lot more about little kids and how they are have their unique way of learning and doing different things!

Blog 3- First Interview Preparation

I plan to interview Maria Montoya, a teacher that works with younger children.  I wanted to aim towards a topic that has to do with younger children and it's a great opportunity for me to try out in a teaching position; I find teaching younger kids more fun. 

My additional questions would be: 

What made you go into teaching and what made you decide what age to teach? 

Are you happy with the age you chose in teaching or do you wish you can do older kids?