Friday, May 18, 2012
Monday, May 14, 2012
Blog 24:Independent component 2
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(a) “I, Sophia Mendez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
(b) I did 30 additional hours of service learning. I received proper knowledge on how to decontaminate instruments and how to wrap them.
I
I literally did 30 more service hours at the hospital.
A
How did it help you answer your EQ? The 30 extra hours of service learning helped me to come up with some of my answers to my essential question being "what is the best way to be a successful surgical technician?" through 30 extra hours i was able to gain facts that would later be used in my I search paper. It helped me reach my answers because I got to see first hand that my answers were stuff most of them did, including maintaining an operating room routine.
I
I literally did 30 more service hours at the hospital.
A
How did it help you answer your EQ? The 30 extra hours of service learning helped me to come up with some of my answers to my essential question being "what is the best way to be a successful surgical technician?" through 30 extra hours i was able to gain facts that would later be used in my I search paper. It helped me reach my answers because I got to see first hand that my answers were stuff most of them did, including maintaining an operating room routine.
Blog 25: service learning
(1) LIA Response to blog:
Literal ·
Log of specific hours with a total and a description of your duties ·
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_ahybGzsc03TWsyTXBFOUNtWG8
Contact Name & Number
Byron Mendez (626) 372-0227
Interpretive
What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?
-That is a hard question, I gained so much from this experience including; communicating with my dad better, I gained more knowledge, I gained back my passion for science, and I gained accomplishment. This whole year has been hectic but I must say I feel accomplished.
Applied
How did what you did help you answer your EQ? Please explain.
In many ways it let me see from a first hand experience what surgical technicians each do so i got to see their own rituals that they had and the standards being practiced. I got to see how they each play different roles, and i got answers to my EQ through paying attention to what one does, that the other doesn't showing me their differences and different ways to approach something.
Literal ·
Log of specific hours with a total and a description of your duties ·
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_ahybGzsc03TWsyTXBFOUNtWG8
Contact Name & Number
Byron Mendez (626) 372-0227
Interpretive
What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?
-That is a hard question, I gained so much from this experience including; communicating with my dad better, I gained more knowledge, I gained back my passion for science, and I gained accomplishment. This whole year has been hectic but I must say I feel accomplished.
Applied
How did what you did help you answer your EQ? Please explain.
In many ways it let me see from a first hand experience what surgical technicians each do so i got to see their own rituals that they had and the standards being practiced. I got to see how they each play different roles, and i got answers to my EQ through paying attention to what one does, that the other doesn't showing me their differences and different ways to approach something.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions
EQ: What is the best way to be a successful surgical technician?
1. Do you believe that having an operating room routine would greatly reduce the amount of mistakes that may occur during an operation?
2. How would you define a successful surgical technician?
3. Do you have an operating room routine you follow every time? If so what does it consist of?
4. Why is sanitation important to a hospital?
5. What would happen if one did not sterilize the instruments properly?
6. What would you say is the most common mistake in the operating room? How is it able to be prevented?
7. One of my answers to my essential question is "Treat each patient according to his/ her individual needs" do you agree that this is true? why or why not?
8. Why would you say it is important to not treat each patient the same?
9. Do advancements in medical equipment happen often?
10. How long does it take to learn to properly use?
11. Is it important to be up to date with all the technological advancements?
12. If you were to answer my essential question, how would you? (What is the best way to be a successful surgical technician? by successful i mean, feeling great accomplishment with yourself, pushing yourself to be the greatest, and just having great overall performance as a health care worker.)
13. What procedures do you take to assure the sterilization of instruments?
14. Why is there a certain way you must wrap the instruments?
15. What are the steps you take to sterilize instruments?
16. Do the instruments ever become unsterilized when in the storage room for too long?
17. What are possible negative effects from not having an operating room routine?
18. How often do you have to wash your hands to keep them clean from germs?
19. What type of attire do you wear in the OR?
20. What would you say is your biggest accomplishment, while being a surgical technician?
1. Do you believe that having an operating room routine would greatly reduce the amount of mistakes that may occur during an operation?
2. How would you define a successful surgical technician?
3. Do you have an operating room routine you follow every time? If so what does it consist of?
4. Why is sanitation important to a hospital?
5. What would happen if one did not sterilize the instruments properly?
6. What would you say is the most common mistake in the operating room? How is it able to be prevented?
7. One of my answers to my essential question is "Treat each patient according to his/ her individual needs" do you agree that this is true? why or why not?
8. Why would you say it is important to not treat each patient the same?
9. Do advancements in medical equipment happen often?
10. How long does it take to learn to properly use?
11. Is it important to be up to date with all the technological advancements?
12. If you were to answer my essential question, how would you? (What is the best way to be a successful surgical technician? by successful i mean, feeling great accomplishment with yourself, pushing yourself to be the greatest, and just having great overall performance as a health care worker.)
13. What procedures do you take to assure the sterilization of instruments?
14. Why is there a certain way you must wrap the instruments?
15. What are the steps you take to sterilize instruments?
16. Do the instruments ever become unsterilized when in the storage room for too long?
17. What are possible negative effects from not having an operating room routine?
18. How often do you have to wash your hands to keep them clean from germs?
19. What type of attire do you wear in the OR?
20. What would you say is your biggest accomplishment, while being a surgical technician?
Blog 22: Answer #3
- EQ = What is the best way to become a successful surgical technician?
- Answer 3 = Properly sterilize each instrument to reduce the risk of harming the patients health.
- Evidence = -Equipment may contaminate health care workers.
- -could potentially harm and spread throughout the whole hospital to infect.
- -Instruments not properly sterilized could spread diseases.
- Source = AST standards of decontamination.
- Association of Surgical Technologists.
Blog 20: Room Creativity
(1) How do you plan to address the room creativity expectation?
I havent put much thought into how im going to have the room but i think im going to put the taples in groups of six facing each other and put cloth and stuff over it to resemble an operating room.
(2) What activity ideas do you have for answer 1 or 2?
-I have some ideas but im not sure al to what exactly or how many i would like to do, i think i might just do 2.
-Wrap a sterilized instruments to make is accessible to the nurse or anyone who is sterile to use in the OR.
I havent put much thought into how im going to have the room but i think im going to put the taples in groups of six facing each other and put cloth and stuff over it to resemble an operating room.
(2) What activity ideas do you have for answer 1 or 2?
-I have some ideas but im not sure al to what exactly or how many i would like to do, i think i might just do 2.
-Wrap a sterilized instruments to make is accessible to the nurse or anyone who is sterile to use in the OR.
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