Blog 16: Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?

How can a Psychiatric Technician best provide quality care to a Psychiatric Patient?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

One of the best ways to ensure quality patient care is by assuring that the patient is at the center of care.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

One of the best ways to ensure quality patient care is by being competent in the field of nursing and pathophysiology.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

Answer 1

1. A One to One
2. Forming a Treatment Plan
3. Given specific medication

Answer 2

1. Knowledge of recognizing signs and symptoms of abnormalities
2. Knowing interventions and properly following the doctors orders
3. Evaluation of Intervention

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

Bed Number Ten

6.  What other source supports your answer?

Textbook of Basic Nursing and information gathered during my third interviews.

7.  Tie this together with a concluding thought.

Quality patient care is a difficult thing to find anywhere nowadays and being able to properly provide it is extremely important for the patients health.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1) I plan on doing more hours of mentor ship. I'll shadow my mentor and use the time to ask more questions to further my research.

2) Allow the teachers to call my mentor and verify my hours. Or I could record everything I do exactly how I do it. There would really be no other way due to patient confidentiality.

3) Talking to nurses and students who work with patients first hand would be more valuable than reading about studies.

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

LITERAL

(a) Write: “I, Edwin Giovanni Davila, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”

(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component. 
I completed my independent component along side with my mentor.

(c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.

(d) Explain what you completed.

For my independent component I successfully organized and executed a fundraiser to help the NAMI organization promote stigma awareness. In addition to operating the fundraiser I became more informed by doing various hours of research which included listening, reading, and attending testimonials of those directly affected by a mental illness. Then I also volunteered at two NAMI Walks in Affiliation with the East San Gabriel Valley Branch to inform others on mental stigmas and their effect on others.

INTERPRETIVE

Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
I believe that this project allowed me to go outside the box and do something that could really make an impact. Looking back to see all of the work that I have done to make a difference is very impacting not only to me but to others as well. Overall this component allowed me to go places I have never gone before and opened my eyes to see what some of the patients would go through before arriving at the psychiatric facility. Below are pictures of the two NAMI Walks that I was apart of beginning with the Huntington beach walk and ending with the Los Angeles walk.

APPLIED

How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this.

This component has allowed me to further understand how a mental illness has affect on not only the person who inhabits it, but, also the people in their lives. Listening to the testimonial of a 14 year old girl named Belle who shared that she had become clinically depressed due to being sexually abused at the age of 8, really opened my eyes and helped me finally understand that the patients I work with are not just patients, but they are someones brother, sister, or even parent. I no longer see the patients as “patients” I see them as individuals who are fighting their way through a life changing experience.  

Inside the World of Bipolar Disorder

In this video Dr. Michael Di Paolo, a clinical psychologist with a Ph.D., is giving a 1 3/4 hour presentation about the basics of bipolar disorder. Among with bipolar disorder he also speaks about the different stages of depression.

Blog 13: Lesson 2 Reflection

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson Two Presentation and why?

What I am most proud of during my lesson two was my organization of the presentation. I feel like the layout of my presentation was the most efficient to get the understanding and point across.

2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

      AE       P          AP       CR       NC

    b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

I believe that the reason I deserve a P is because I successfully met all of the P requirements stated in the contract.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

What worked best for my lesson two was my activity. It was very engaging and it successfully tied into relation with my first answer.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

If I were able to go back and present, I would use my time more efficiently not only in my speaking time but also with my activity time. I would explain my activity more in depth and check for understanding.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

For my second answer I am not very sure yet on what it would be, but I would relate it to what I have discovered while doing my independent component.

Blog 12: Mentorship 10 hours check

Content:

1.Q.Where are you doing your mentorship?

A. I am doing my mentorship at the Hacienda La Puente Psychiatric Technician program.

2.Q.Who is your contact?

A. My contact is my mom Silvia Davila.

3.Q.How many total hours have you done (total hours should be reflected in your mentorship log located on the right hand side of your blog like your WB)?

A.I have a total of 24hrs completed throughout the year.

4.   Summarize the 10 hours of service you did.

The newly added ten hours of service consisted of the Nami event that the class and I participated in, the fundraiser included all the Nami organizations of Southern California and all of the corresponding presidents. As I arrived we had to check-in to the event then after I had to go to the San Gabriel Valley both and assist in passing out information which is where I met Mr. Encinas. After three hours of touring and distributing information the 2 mile walk around downtown Los Angeles began. After the crowded one and a half hour walk we returned to the booth where people began to tell their stories on stage then the rest of my time there consisted of handing out recognition to individuals and organizations and cleaning up.

Blog 11: Holiday Project Update

Content:

1.Q. It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you do over the break with your senior project?

A. Over the winter break I worked alongside my mentor on finishing up my independent component.

2.Q. What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why?  What was the source of what you learned?

A. Throughout the break I attended various NAMI meetings held nearby. In these meetings we would listen to speakers who have had a mental stigma affecting their family in some way, from listening to the variety of the speakers they all mentioned one solitary phrase,”You Are Not Alone”. This helped me realize that no matter what one is going through there are always others that are supporting you every step of the way.   

3.Q. If you were going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers for your EQ, who would you talk to and why?

A.The person I would interview is the President of the East San Gabriel Valley Chapter, for being able to overcome such challenges in his life and for being around mental stigma without losing hope.