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.