Blog 24: Last Presentation Reflection

                      

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?

• The thing im most proud of is the fact that I went over the talking time which I was most worried about. So it resulted in being able to make the one hour mark as well. 
• the reason why im proud of that is because it means that i don't get an NC on my presentation

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation?  Use the component contract to defend that assessment.

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

• P

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project? Use the component contract to defend that assessment..

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

• P

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

• I think the thing that worked the most for my senior project was the fact that I was actually able to find a mentor that was a nurse since the beginning of the year & that our schedules worked out too.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project?

• I would probably just request more time to work in the pediatric floor so I could focused on Pediatric Oncology 

(5) Finding Value

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

• I really liked how my senior project helped me understand so much about nursing on what a nurse goes through on a daily basis. Also I think being able to work with nurses was a big achievement for me because i was able to have self experience

Exit Interview

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?

• How can cancer treatment team best support a patient throughout their treatment process?
• Being supportive
• Understanding the patient
• Being able to communicate with patients/families
• My best answer is being supportive to the family but most importantly to the patient itself

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

• The process i took to arrive to this answer is mentoring with an oncology nurse and seeing how she handled things with her patients. she told me herself that being very supportive to a patient is the number one key so they know that there is someone there that is helping them through everything

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

• to be honest, I didn't encounter any problems because my schedule and the nurses schedule worked out very well. 

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

• Jennifer Ochoa (nurse) was one very significant and great source
• The City of Hope hospital website was another great source too
• They helped because they both gave me a lot of great information about being an oncologist and being supportive to a patient.

Blog 22- Independent Component #2

LITERAL
(a) Include this statement: “I, student name, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents ___ hours of work.”

• I, Alondra Gutierrez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 45 hours of work

(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.

• The 2 main sources that helped me with completing my independent component 2 was Elizabeth Davidson and Jennifer Ochoa 

(d) Explain what you completed.

• During spring break, I went to mentorship from Monday-Friday from 9am-5pm which is the time that my mentor, Elizabeth Davidson goes into work and the time she gets out. But I only worked with my mentor one day out of the whole week and we did a lot of patient paper work and logging in stuff into the computer. The rest of the days that I wasnt with my mentor, I was with my other great source, Jennifer Ochoa. We worked with the patients a week and had to do alot of medication giving and rounds and all that good stuff.

(e) Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.   

• I am not allowed to take pictures or videos because its against the hospital regulations. I asked before and they said I couldn't because it can make people feel uncomfortable. 

(f)How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 

• The component helped me a lot because I was able to actually live one of my answers for my EQ which is being supportive to the patients. During this time, I was there giving my full support to any patient and it makes them feel 1000x better.

Blog 20- Interview 4 Preparation

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?

• I plan to interview a nurse named Jennifer Ochoa. She is a registered nurse at City of Hope

2.  Post 20 open-ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. Your focus should be finding answers to your EQ.

1. How do you help a patient throughout their time at the hospital?
2. How difficult is it for them to cope with what they're suffering from?
3. How bad does the family take it?
4. Has there ever been a case where a patient rejects any type of treatment for cancer?
5. Whats the best way to help a patient through their treatment process?
6. What are the many different ways a nurse helps a patient depending on the type of cancer they have?
7. What has been your biggest accomplishment as a nurse?
8. What has been your toughest experience?
9.  What are the most common treatments for cancer?
10. What are the side effects of the treatments?
11. Does chemotherapy cause different effects on different people?
12. How do you deal with the side effects that patients get?
13. Has treatment ever gone bad on any patient?
14. Can you explain why some patients get chemo and some just get medication?
15. How bad have patients gotten because of the treatments given to them?
16. On a scale of 1-10, how difficult is it for you as a nurse to deal with their side effects?
17. Has there ever been a case where family members get extremely upset with you as a nurse?
18. If so, what has the family done that has affected you?
19. Do you love what you do?
20. Do you think you would be able to handle doing chemo?

Blog 19: Third Answer

• EQ 
• How can cancer treatment team best support a patient throughout the treatment process?
• Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*
• Talking to patients about how the feel.
• Patients tend to like talking to the staff of the hospital because it makes them feel better and makes them feel as if someone besides their family members care about them.
• 3 details to support the answer
• I went to a meeting at City of Hope and this was stated so i found it interesting
• My mentor also mentioned it to me 
• The hospital staff actually has experiences where the patients tell them their whole life story and thank the staff afterwords for listening because it made them feel better
• The research source(s) to support your details and answer
• My mentor
• Some of the hospital staffs experiences that Ive interacted with 
• Concluding Sentence
• I feel like this answer could be reasonable but im still kind of working on one with my mentor.

Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?

• How can cancer treatment team best support a patient through their treatment process?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

• My first answer to my EQ is providing support to the family but most importantly to the patient

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

• I still am not very sure about my second answer because I have not yet discussed it with my mentor, but as of now my second answer would be being understanding with the patients.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

• If you don't provide support, the patient feels hopeless
• If you're not understanding of the patient and what they're going through, they tend to get frustrated and mad because "no one understands them" 
• Support to the family also needs to be given because they are are the ones that are seeing this happen to a loved one of theirs.

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

• The books I'm reading really support my answer. 

6.  What other source supports your answer?

• Articles that ive read and i have on my working bibliography

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

• I think these answer really do go with my EQ because my mentor herself has told me that this is what needs to be done to support a patient through their treatment process.

Blog 17 - Interview 3 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  

• I did not only learn a lot of new things about nursing but also about case managers who play a big role in a cancer patients life. 

2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?

• I've been able to ask more questions while I'm interviewing and be more engaged in the conversations. 

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