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. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1KglgBgkgWYbkI5ZUtoeE15RkE0OVJQX2o5Zlc3YWU3cHlZ/view?usp=sharing 

Blog #16- Independent Component 2 Approval

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

• I plan to go to events that City of Hope has, and if that doesn't work out then ill have to do an extra 30 hours again.

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

• Well if there is events t City of Hope from here to April, i will be volunteering at them. If not, i will be doing extra hours, but with someone else that is not my mentor so i can get a different experience. 

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

• I feel like this will help me more, because ill get to spend a lot of more time with patients and hear their experiences and what they're feelings

Independent Component #1

• LITERAL
• (a) Write: “I, Alondra Gutierrez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 35 hours of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
• My mentor helped me complete my independent component because I did extra hours with her.
• (d) Explain what you completed.  
• While i was completing my independent component, i did what i usually do at mentor-ship which was shadow around with my mentor and help a little with the patients. Also some paper work and calling home health care companies to find out information about patients.  
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
  
• I asked my mentor if i was able to take pictures or videos for evidence but she said it wasn't possible because it can make patients uncomfortable or also their family members.
• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. 
• It helped me understand it better because i started learning new stuff about my project. So since i was spending more time with my mentor, she was able to tell me more great information. 

Lesson 2 Reflection

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?

• I feel really proud of my activity, i feel like it went really good. Also, i was able to say all the information i needed to say.

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

       AE       P          AP       CR       NC

• I feel like i would give myself a P because I did a decent job, and an AP because I didn't make research time 

     b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

• I did everything in the P consideration except the 10 minute research time.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

• The thing that worked for me in lesson 2 is that we were able to have a power point. 

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

• I would have rehearsed more so that i could be more confident and expand on my information instead of saying things quickly.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

• I honestly dont know yet, i will have to talk to my mentor about that so she can help me out and put input.

Third Interview Preparation

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

• I plan to interview my mentors colleague. She is in fact also a case manager and registered nurse. 

2.  Verify that you have called your interviewee to schedule an interview.  What is the date and time of the interview? 

• I don't know yet but tomorrow I'm going to mentor-ship and i will see her there so i plan to ask her. 

3.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you find research resources that would help to answer the EQ.

• What do you do to help a patient through their treatment process? How do you help their family?

4.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you think about other useful activities you might do to help you answer the EQ (IC2, possible experts to talk to, etc).

• I will most likely talk to more nurses and doctors or even ask if i can speak to their counselors if its possible. 

5.  Phrase two open-ended questions that help you to understand your interviewee's perspective on an aspect of your EQ. 

• Whats the most difficult part to see while your patient is going through treament?
• What do you tell a patient when their cancer cant be treated any further?