Service Learning

• Where are you working for your service learning?

For my service learning I first started off at a convalescent home in Rowland. While doing my hours, I was also searching for other hospitals. I found San Dimas Community Hospital, which is where I will now be doing my hours at.

• Who is your contact?

San Dimas Community Hospital

Kathleen Rivero

1350 West Covina Boulevard San Dimas, CA 91773

(909) 599-6811

Rowland Nursing Home

Wendy

330 W Rowland Ave Covina, CA 91723

(626) 967-2741

• Summarize the services you have performed to complete the 10 hour requirement

At the Nursing home, I helped nurses assist in entertaining the elders, taking them to their room, and also any little thing they wanted me to do. Since I just currently received my service learning at San Dimas Community Hospital, I am still in the process of attaining on what I will actually be doing. I know I will most likely be assigned to volunteer in the ER or MedSurge to help assist the RNs.

• How many hours have you worked?

At the nursing home I have worked about 13½ hours.

EHSS ;)

Which aspects of the ESLR are you focusing on?
    The aspects of the ESLR I am focusing on is becoming a Effective Communicator and Lifelong Learner.



How will you do this (or have you done this already in your S.P.)
    I plan on becoming a Effective Communicator through my service learning and interviews by asking questions regarding any information i seek to learn. I also plan on using the research checks by effectively taking notes and by using more reliable sources for my research. 



How will this help you become better, educationally? 
    This will help me become better educationally as it will help me understand the the basics of nursing thy I can hope to use in my everyday daily life now and in the future. 

Third Interview Questions

1. What is most important in being a registered nurse?
2. What educational path is the best to take when wanting to become a RN?
3. What do you think are the most important qualities a nurse should posse? Why?
4. How important is it to have a caring attitude toward your patients? Can some patients tell if you’re just treating them for the money?
5. How do you communicate with patients given their different ethnicities and culture?
6. Do you use any techniques or lessons you’ve learned from nursing in your everyday life? If so, what kind?
7. How does nursing affect you as a person?
8. How do you keep your continuing education current? Do you attend seminars, read journals, etc.?
9. How do you go about scheduling? Is self-scheduling an option, or does someone else dictate the schedule?
10. How do you go about managing your busy schedule?
11. What motivates you to go to work everyday and how does it motivate you?
12. What have been the most important lessons you’ve learned as a RN?

Self Reflection

                (1)   How do you think you are doing so far in your senior project and why?  AE, P, AP, CR, or NC

I think I have been doing fairly well on my senior project, although I could be doing better. I feel I deserve a P because I have done everything asked at a Proficient level. I understand I have yet to turn in my second interview, but I have done all that I can to try and get an interview at the convalescent home I am currently volunteering at; and due to the confidentially code and RN’s  very flexible schedule it makes it very hard to try and get one.

(2) What one thing do you think you have done well on and why?

I think that I’ve done well on is improving the improving the types of research I get for my research checks. I now understand the basics to becoming a nurse and the qualities a nurse must have. I have also focused more on what I need to learn more on and where I need to go on my project; and I feel the only way on obtaining the knowledge I seek is through service learning.

 
(3) What is one thing you would like to improve on and why? 

One thing that I would like to improve more on is finding my service learning. I have not yet been able to find service learning due to ride issues on being able to get to and from there and also most hospitals I have tried said they are not able to take me in. I am still trying to look for hospitals and hopefully by next week I should have one.

Science Fair Proposal

             1. What is your hypothesis?

If a teenagers BMI (Body Mass Index) is low, then the difference between their resting and active heart rate will be low as well.

2. Identify the dependent (produced), independent (manipulated) and control variables in your hypothesis.

Dependent- Difference between rising heart rate to active heart rate

Independent- BMI

Control variables- Teenagers 14-18 years old

3. What is the connection between your science fair project and your senior project EQ?  

The connection between my science fair project and senior project is that they both consist of obtaining a individuals pulse rate just as a nurse checks their patients pulse rate.

4. How will you perform the experiment?  Include the equipment you plan on using.

·         I will perform my experiment with the help of 40 volunteers. 40 being students 9-12 ( 10 from 9^th, 10 from 10^th, 10 from 11^th, 10 from 12^th)  

·         I will then gather all the students according to grade level, and have them sit comfortably for 5 minutes. I will measure their pulse rate and record the data.

·         After obtaining their resting heart rate, I will have them do a intensive amount of sit ups they can within a minute. I will then obtain their active heart rate and record the data. 

       5. Which category will your project be listed under?

        Physiology