Blog 20: Exit Interview

Title:  Exit Interview
Label: Exit Interview 
Due Date: Tuesday April 29 by 8AM 

Content: 

(1) What is your essential question and answers?  What is your best answer and why?

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

1. By introducing the Creating Opportunities for Parent Empowerment program (COPE) informs parents on how to ensure healthy growth.
2. To provide good communication between patients and the NICU staff to help influence the decisions parents make for their babies. 
3. By assuring neonates get the right nutrition they need in order to reach the ideal weight to continue to grow and develop. 

My BEST answer would have to be the Creating Opportunities for Parent Empowerment program (COPE) because it informs parents on how to ensure healthy growth.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

I got to my best answer with the help of successful interviews with NICU nurses and also through research. 

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

I had a problem with obtaining research for my first answer. I resolved it by using some of the websites Mrs.Pittman recommended. I also would've wanted to volunteer at a hospital that had an NICU department and would've wished for a NICU nurse mentor, but volunteering at a hospital setting with nurses and different patients was good enough. 

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

The two most significant sources to help answer my EQ would probably be all four of my interviews and my mentorship at Casa Colina. Working at a hospital setting helped me understand the foundation of being a nurse and having to work with different patients daily. It showed me how important it is to know how to communicate and interact with patients. 

Blog 19: Independent Component 2

Title:  Independent Component 2
Label:  Independent Component
Due Date:  Friday 4/25 by 8AM

Content:  

LITERAL
(a) I, Michelle Ortega, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
(b) Ishna Mesa, RN and Unit support team coach at casa colina 
(c) Linked on the sidebar under "mentorship log"
(d) To complete my 30 hours for component #2, I volunteered at Casa Colina twice a week for about 8 hours or so. The days I would stay for as long as 8 hours I would do rounds of the east and west wing of the hospital and assist the patients. I would also help out the unit secretaries by making admission packets, putting together new admits charts, making copies, labeling, filing, and doing chart maintenance. 

INTERPRETIVE 
  

APPLIED
This independent component helped me understand that when working in a hospital setting with different patients it is important to communicate with them in a way thats comprehensive. Volunteering at Casa Colina has taught me to be repetitive when a patient is unsure about his or her conditions. To encourage them and always have patience towards them. And to shows them how supportive the staff is so that it can influence the decisions they choose to make. 

Fourth Interview..

Michele Atkins-Young was the fourth person I decided to interview. Out of all the interviews I did, I can say that this one was the MOST useful. She was very detailed and helpful as to answering my questions. She gave me a couple of items that are required to treat a premature infant. 

This is used to monitor the babies heart rate. 

 As small as it might look, this is the actual size of premature babies diapers. 

 This is used to take the babies blood pressure.  

This is an Intubation tube. A lot of the time when the babies are born early they are born with immature lungs. So the NICU put the babies in a ventilator and the tube is placed midway of the infants lungs so that with the help of the intubation tubes it helps provide the infants lungs with oxygen.