10th week in a row

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Even babies buckle up. (The FAA in conjunction with the FDA does not recommend children get buckled like this.)

so this week i have decided to blog about my service learning project in another class, i figure it might work because it is all service learning.

I went to the Seville senior center for my other service-learning project. And for the first part of it we did a health screening.WHAT? One of the most important things that I learned at the senior center is that the people that are there really rely on the service that they offer. I’m talking about the fact that that they go to the art museums or the mall, just getting them out and about. In talking to the people during the health screening that is something that they look forward to everyday, and I realized that it is really important to have this in there life.

SO WHAT? It was important for me as a student nurse to go here and do these health screening. I learned that a lot of older people know little about so of the most common health risks. It is important because to me I will have to teach these older people about their risks that high blood pressure and high blood sugar have.

NOW WHAT? In the future as a nurse I will need to reflect on this because I will have to address the knowledge deficit that the older adults my have. And just like I did at this senior center I will have to assess there knowledge about the specific finding to make sure that know everything that they need to about the diagnosis.

Beckham had a photo shoot this week. I tried to tell him not to get to close to the dog because he has germs.

This week was great. I know that I had plans to work on the service learning project but that fell through thanks to a test that we had. I really enjoyed class and loved the good debate that we had. (Even if it got intense at times.) I really am very interested in the comparing of alternative medicine to “western” medicine. I just wonder why if it works so well do those people that don’t agree with it turn a blind eye? I don’t know how I feel about it. Naturally I am skeptical. They seem unreliable, where as they will work for one person and not another. However in class I learned that there are different classes of natural care. When Dena was talking about her oils vs. Wal-Mart’s. One thing is for sure, that no matter what I need to be the patients advocate and support then in what ever they choose.

So what? This has a lot of implications for me as a student nurse. I know that I need to be the advocate for the pt. and that I need to have a general knowledge of basic alternative medicine. This interests me a lot and I think that it will be the subject of a research paper in the future.

This has a very large role to me as a nurse. This idea of homeopathic medicine can affect compliance in a big way. I have a friend that in an attempt to rid her of a yeast infection tried many home remedies, including lathering her perineum with yogurt and placing a clove of garlic inside her vagina. She did this to avoid having to go to the doctor and getting an antibiotic. That same friend when she does get an anti-biotic she takes about half the prescription then saves the rest for later. This really can effect how pt. accepts care from me as a nurse.

the 8th

As a nurse i do not support giving candy to children. but Beckham ask me for this one and i couldn't say no.

Well this week was real productive. In the service-learning department we have done nothing. We have enjoyed the fact that the project is done. But for class we learned about exercise. This was a good thing for me to hear about. I knew the things we talked about, but it was good to hear the reminder.

For the service-learning project the next step is for us to write the paper. This is an important thing to do with any project. This is important because we need to look back and see what we could have done better and what we might do different again. And if you look at any nursing experiment people write a paper on it to educate others what they did.

With what we learned in class I have realized that it is important. We are learning about this because this is something that all the patients that we ever have will have to do. This is something that will help people recover faster. Just the smallest piece of exercise can help patients. So it is our job to teach them that and tell them the benefits of it.

Now what? Well with the service-learning project we are going to break up the project paper. And then we are going to meet and compile the paper and make the power point, and BE DONE!!! And that means that I will be that much closer to being a nurse. This is also helping me learn to work with colleagues that are not my favorite.

As for the exercise this has reminded me to get back to running. Last year I had planned to run in the salt lake marathon, however with the baby and everything I have not been the most faithful and I don’t think that I will make my goal. But I will commit to start to run now and maybe I can make the half marathon.

As an additional note I would like to formally apologize for being disruptive in class. I understand that it was rude and I assure you that I will not be troublesome in class again.