May Rewind

Well Senior Year is practically over now and I am glad to say that I am officially graduating! I passed my Senior Presentation with an A, which is a major change from failing the 30 minute one. Now all that's left is the evening tradeshow on Wednesday and we are finished. It's been an amazing Senior Year and I absolutely loved all the new experiences from Prom to Hiking and all the work it was a great learning experience. I'm glad to leave iPoly on a high note.

Blog 22 Senior Project Reflection

1. I'm really proud of my Final Presentation and how my project turned out as a whole. I've learned a lot of information and I actually surprised myself with how much information I retained while presenting. This had been a remarkable improvement from the 30minute one I sadly failed. We've spent an entire 9 months on this project and it really is my baby.

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3. I met time, mentioned sources, and people were commending me afterwards so that's good. I'm pretty sure I'm graduating too.
4. I definitely would've prepared myself better with the 30 minute presentation and looked for more research to back up everything.
5. I now know what it takes to create a quality research paper with expert sources from the ESA which I showed through my iSearch paper. I'm confident on my ability to speak when called to seeing as I actually almost went over time during the Senior Presentation. I've also confirmed that I will take nursing after high school.

Hour Presentation Prep

I'm taking a break from working on my senior presentation to give a little update and a sneak peek of what's to come. I present tomorrow and have been working for the past week on my presentation. The content is good, in my opinion, it's just a matter of getting the information out there. Presenting for an entire hour is really nerve wracking and I have to give props to all the teachers that do it every single morning. As long as I get past that hour and meet all the minimum requirements I will officially be graduating! Whoops. I almost forgot that there's also that evening trade show next week, but it's no biggie. Here are a couple of props I will bring Thursday morning:

I actually had to return the dosage calculations one

I'm so proud I made this one myself!

Minus the badge on this one

 

Already  prepared for nursing school ;)

I am super excited and terrified! Wish me luck c:

Blog 21: Mentorship

Literal
Mentorship Log - 56 hours total

Michael Bravo (Volunteer Coordinator) - San Dimas Community Hospital

Interpretive
The most important thing I have taken away from volunteering with San Dimas Community Hospital for the Senior project is the experience I have culminated. Senior Project prompted me to take this opportunity which I never would have taken advantage of had I not been required to. I am almost certain after taking into full consideration my experience that I will not go into nursing. I have seen both the good and bad in it and don't think it is the best course to take. However, I am sure that health care is something I want to continue exploring and still holds my interests, perhaps the research aspect of it. What I have accomplished up to this point in time however is truly remarkable. Taking advantage of the Senior Project, I have explored a future career and have been given access to an experience that not anyone can get by just walking into a hospital. I've become an integral part of the health care staff as a volunteer by talking to patients and helping nurses with what I can. Apparently, I've even made it farther than many volunteers who I've heard left maybe after a month. By sticking it through, I learned more and more each day about nursing and the hospital setting as a whole too and how it is all integrated.

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Mentorship has helped me answer my EQ by providing a real life application of research to what I observed at the hospital. I watched as the entire health care team utilizes the patient assessments that nurses make. I've also watched many assessments take place (not up close for privacy reasons obviously). I see how nurses take an advantage of the interaction with their patients to communicate an understanding of what's going on and how they are doing in terms of health and recovery. These observations helped me cement my best answer as well as the others, watching all the measures staff take with sanitation and infection prevention every single day. My mentor, Aubrey Abiva, also helped  make my answers concrete through our interviews as well as discussing them with other nurses when I could.