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Mentorship Update 3/16/2013

Today I have had the opportunity to do an update on my mentorship. With that being said, below you can find a few pictures on what I have been doing or what I have encountered at my mentorship.

This picture is a handout that the nurses at Kaiser give out to patients. It basically talks about what  the 17P-injectable progestrone shot is, who should get it, the side effects of the shot, and what happens if someone should miss a dose. I decided to add this picture to my blog because it relates to my second answer which is reducing preterm birth. 

This is a picture of a ultrasound machine that doesn't work, however I  thought that it would be interesting to share it because I have never seen an ultrasound machine up close until the day that I took the picture. 

This picture is of the cover of the 3rd Trimester Packets that I make in the OB/GYN department. I constantly  have to  these packets because the nurses are always using them! Inside these packets, there is useful information to the patient which includes a handout about taking a tour of the L&D department, what to do after the baby arrives, along with other useful handouts. 

Senior Project and ESLR's

1.  What ESLR have you excelled in most in your senior project? 
I feel that I have excelled in the effective learner category.

2.  Please explain why you think you have excelled in this ESLR.
I have excelled in this ESLR because throughout the senior project, I have assumed responsibility for my own learning. Also I feel that I have gone above and beyond for acquiring more resources that could help me understand my senior project topic better such as getting more legitimate research such as articles from the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and also doing extra interviews. Also there have been a few occasions where I choose to better my senior project. One of them was when I changed my EQ. The first EQ that I had centered around gestational diabetes and after doing my third interview, I found out that the answers were going to be self explanatory and I wanted to challenge myself so I went looking for help and I came across infant mortality. I feel this is one of the best choices that I have made because it challenges me everyday. In the articles that I have gotten which relate to infant morality  it usually talks about the medication that they administer to mothers or babies which is complex and usually hard to remember or learn about. 

3.  Provide evidence from your senior project to support your claim (evidence is a photo of something you are doing, photo of something you made, etc).
The evidence can be seen through my Working Bibliography. Another piece of evidence that I have is picture of the book called Primary Care in Obstetrics and Gynecology. I got this book out of my own free will because it seemed as if it would provide a great overview of my topic, which it did. It was really helpful in making me understand what types of situations OB/GYN's go through which was great because it helped me get a better perspective on the foundation of my topic.

Mentorship Update: 2/26/2013

Now that I have had more time on my hands to update my blog on my mentorship, I thought I would share some pictures of some of the things that I was assigned to do while volunteering at Kaiser.

While at the hospital, I had to put these congratulatory cards in envelopes to mail/hand out to patients who had their babies at Kaiser. I thought this was a really nice gesture of the OB/GYN and L&D department because of the message that it had inside which was very thoughtful.

These are the Healthy Beginnings Newsletters or prenatal packets.  These packets consist of a newsletter numbered 1-10 which outline how far along the mother is depending on the newsletter. For example if the mother is in her first trimester, she would read the 1-3 and near the end of her pregnancy or third trimester, she would read newsletter 7-10. Every time that I go  to Kaiser, which is Tuesdays and Thursdays, I always have to make a new batch of packets because they are constantly running low. One time I made  two sections of packets in about 30 minutes which is about 50 packets overall, which resulted in REALLY dry hands! Although it might seem weird that I like making these packets, they are actually very informational because they have helped me learn more about prenatal care which is my first answer to my EQ.