3rd weeks the charm

this is some of my family.. you guessed it, being healthy

This week we had no class! Yea! So my group and I took the opportunity to work on our service learning project. This was time will spent because it saved us about two hundred and fifty dollars. We contacted mina and worked out to have us use the service learning grant. So we went to dental hygiene and bought tooth brushes (for 19 cents each) and glo-germ. We basically got all of our supplies ready.

With our service learning project I learned more about the financial ends of projects. We worked with the lady in the nursing department that handles the money (I forgot her name) and she explained how a lot of the finances work. That was very educational. Additionally we have our first presentation coming up, that means that this week we need to get ready! The first one is on Friday and we have to get a plan together and test our products to see if it all works before we go in there. Everything will be great assuming that my wife does not have the baby on Friday!!!

This week for the service learning I am going to spend some time preparing a lesson plan and not doing a half-assed job. I have a tendency to want to “wing” a lot of things but that is something I want to change about myself. This project is turning from dreading to exciting.

week 2, one more than one

This is my wife, Tricia, and I promoting health in a real life situation.

This week was great. For class, all day, we learned about stress and culture. All day! I think that in first semester they should teach an entire class on culture and stress, so that for the rest of the nursing program we did not need to learn the same thing all over again. For the service learning project we have accomplished a lot this week. We got the approval and made the plan to start working on it. And we also decided what we were going to do, that was a big step.

With the discussion that we had in class opened my eyes for how some people live in the world. First off, I don’t have much stress. I’m really easy going for the most part and I don’t let things get to me. I learned that this is a bad thing as well as a good thing. For example, an exam should cause so eustress; I have a test the ends on Wednesday that I have not even thought about. It should cause me a little stress so that it would cause me to study for it. Also I never want to live like the people on hoarders. It stressed me just watching it.

This week with the service learning project we met with the principle of the elementary school that we are going to do our teaching at. I learned about giving a professional presentation and how to work in groups. One member of our group wants to make a glo-germ, but I would much rather buy it than make it. I just have to use the communication skills I learned last week to be up-front and tell him.

I WILL KEEP MY HOUSE CLEAN!!! I will also work towards becoming culturally competent. I realize that this will not be achieved in a day, or even a semester, but I will start now to become educated on cultures so to provide the best care possible for my patients. Culture is the thing that I currently consider the least important thing in providing care. However after class I know that it has a large role in healing and health promotion.

The service learning project is sharpening my people skills and communication skills in a professional atmosphere. I am going to continue to work on this project so as to have a valued role in the community.

week one, what a week

This week we learned about communicating as nurse, and what a large role commuicating plays in the world. We the talked about the verbal and non verbal forms of communicating. and for my service learning...well i have stressed about it, and that is it. i have some ideas, and our group is going to meet on monday and decided what we are doing. but i still am stressed because it is a big project.
With this disscusion in class, combined with class activites, it really made me think about how i communicate with other people. and after taking a good long look at me i realize that i dont communicate well. i really tend to shy away from alkward things or confrentation, and if i comtiue in this pattern as a nurse it could be destructive. so i know why were learning this, it is so when we need to tell someone something, they will get what we say and not something compleately different.
This service learning stuff im a little less clear on. i know why we are doing it, to benifit the community, and to help us learn how to interact with communities. but i just dont want to do it. but i know that once i get started on this it will be better, and it wont be hard to keep working.
Now What? i now commit to be an exellent communicator! im going to continue to develop my skills as a comunicator so no one can say they didnt know what i meant or anhything of the sort. this is a skill that will help me no matter what i do in life so i will likely use it forever, unless i have a bad stroke. but then i will just use non verbal communication. ok ok, if i was in a coma then i could not comunicate.
i have never really seen my self as the kind of person that is that involved with the community, and i dont imagine that i will be. i like the community, im just not to active in it. so i hope that this service learning "thing" will help me to learn how to interact with the community as a professional. and after i learn this i very well could never use it again.
well thats all for this week, until next week on HEALTHY DOUG, PROMOTING HEALTH. and yes i know i dont promote health in this blog, i just needed to have the phrase "promoting health" because the class is health promotion.