Blog 16: Advisory Meeting #2

Title:  Advisory Meeting #2

Label: Presentation

Due Date:  Thursday 2/27 by 8AM

Content:

What is the best way to ensure a premature baby grows healthy? 

Answer #2
To provide good communication between patients and the NICU staff to help influence the decisions parents make for their babies. 

3 details to support the answer

1. When parents feel dissatisfied in the lack of communication with the NICU staff, their stress and existing anxiety increases, finding it more difficult in establishing a close relationship with their baby. 
2. Trust and sense of being known and affirmed helps reduce a parents worries. Communication with the parents should be responsive, open and reflective. 
3. The communication helps meet the emotional needs of a parent, and proves how supportive the NICU is and can be. 

The research source (s) to support your details and answer

Research article: "Strengths and weaknesses of a parent-staff communication in the NICU"

Article from the journal of Perinatology: "Communicating with parents in the NICU" 

Concluding Sentence
Satisfactory communication with the parents and NICU staff is the best way in ensuring a healthy premature baby.

Born at 19 weeks

Today at Casa Colina I came across a nurse, I helped her do paperwork in the nursing station and she had asked me a couple questions one of them which was "why did you volunteer here? do you wish to pursue this profession?" I told her that I wanted to become a neonatal nurse and she told me that was wonderful that she's thankful for NICU and its nurses. Karina Moreno the nurse told me that she gave birth to premature baby Brandon Alexander Moreno at just 19 weeks into her pregnancy on November  29th. Karina told me that brandon was held in an incubator at the NICU and that he had to have 4 eye surgeries due to excessive scar tissue. Brandon Alexander Moreno had to be hospitalized for about 5 and a half months before he was discharged. Karina seemed very satisfied with her babys stay at the NICU.

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Premature baby at 19 weeks 

baby at 36 weeks 

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

Title: Independent Component 2 Approval
Label: Independent Component 
Due Date: Thursday, 2/13 by 8AM

Content:
1. Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours. 

• For my 30 Hours I plan on continuing my mentorship hours at Casa Colina in La Verne. At Casa colina I will do rounds of the east and west side of the hospital meaning going through each and every patients rooms. I will help provide patients with any necessities they might desire. Along with being an extra help for the nurses at Casa Colina by helping them put together the patients chart. In which has forms that the nurses use daily to record patients pains or medications they might be on. 

2. Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

• To show evidence of the 30 hours I will be completing, I will be posting pictures of what  the work I am assigned to do along with logging in my hours daily on my mentorship log.

3. And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

• Working with the nurses will help me comprehend the aspects of working with patients who are in need of objects and aren't capable of obtaining the objects themselves. 

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

Title: Independent Component 1 
Label: Independent Component 
Due Date: Friday 2/7 by 8AM 

LITERAL 
(a)“I, Michelle Ortega, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
(b) Ishan Mesa, nurse at Casa Colina
(c) Linked on the sidebar under "mentorship log"  
(d) To complete my 30 hours from my independent component 1, I attended Casa Colina twice a week for about 4 hours a day. Everyday is different sometimes I'm put to do rounds meaning I have to check in with patients and see if I can help them with anything they need. Sometimes I do paper work and put incoming admins charts together. When I do rounds I get to interact with patients but sometimes its difficult because it isn't as easy to communicate with them due to some patients having hearing problems or not being capable of speaking. 

INTERPRETIVE 

Made Patient and Education folders for incoming admits 

Added Extension number stickers to the patients tv so that it was easier for the patient to see and access

APPLIED

• This component helped me understand the foundation of being a nurse because it showed me how important it is to know how to communicate and interact with patients. Volunteering at the Hospital has helped me get a feel of what it would be like to have to work with patients and has taught me to be aware of how important it is have patience towards the patients. And I have realized that when working with patients and premature babies patience is key.