Daily Journal
Day 1: 6/3/19
Waited in the lobby of building one of Hondros College of Nursing for my employer, Angela Turner, RN, to pick me up. We exchanged greetings when she arrived and she led me to her office. She explained what she does here and what she had to do today. We had to prepare sim labs for the nursing students. This involved giving medical mannequins IVs, wigs, tracheal tubes, fake cuts with fake blood and gauze, cleaning them, and resetting them. When the class arrived, I was introduced to other faculty members and sat in on the class. I then sat in on Professor Turner as she voiced one of the medical mannequins in a SimLab. This is where nursing students interact with the mannequins as if they were real life patients. We finished the SimLab and continued the lecture until I had to leave. Total Worktime: 6 hours.
Day 3: 6/5/19
Today I arrived an hour early and around the same time as the professor. We went to her office and proceeded to prep the day's simulations for the nursing students. We dressed and redressed certain mannequins. We prepped their arms for IV labs. We then broke for lunch. I left an hour early as the professor had to go to a conference in Cincinnati. Total Worktime: 6 hours.
Day 5: 6/12/19
Today I arrived around 9. They did skill test checks for individual medical students. We set about prepping more sim labs and then inventoried the medical supply closet. I counted and opened a lot of packages. I sat in on a few lectures. Went home. Total Worktime: 6 hours.
Day 7: 6/14/19
Arrived 2 hours later than normal at 11 am. Sat in on a lecture and watch a special simulation. This simulation was longer than normal and covered the admission process and the birth of a child. They call the mannequin "SimMom". Basically I watched a mannequin give birth. Then I helped Professor Turner deliver stuff and clean the lab. Then I went home at 4. Total Worktime: 5 hours.
Day 9: 7/9/19
Arrived around 9 as usual. Prepped a mannequin for a simulation (this included adding a beanie, arm band, and IV pull. Also cleaning his nose from sticky gunk). Helped create fake labels and fixed errors with white out. Proceeded to fill up simulated packets with distilled water for future sims. Sat in on two lectures and one simulation. Total Worktime: 8:15 hours.
Day 11: 7/11/19
Arrived on time at noon. Supervisor was forty minutes late due to dead car battery. Re-assembled dry injectipads. Total Worktime: 8:15 hours
Day 2: 6/4/19
I arrived and headed straight for Professor Turner's office. We began prepping more mannequins for more SimLabs. A single nursing student arrived to make up missed classes. Professor Turner turned on an educational video for the student and I sat in on it for a while. I then continued helping Professor Turner. The rest of the class arrived and Professor Turner and I could not prep the mannequins while the students were there. We sat in on their lecture and then headed to another building to check her mailbox. We came back and then she graded papers while I say in on the lecture. We are lunch and then supervised students during an exam. Then we headed back and continued prepping mannequins until I had to leave. Total Worktime: 6 hours.
Day 4: 6/11/19
Today I arrived and headed straight for Professor Turner's office. We sat in on lectures and I helped her prep more mannequins. Today we made fake poop and put it into an adult diapers for a simulation. We were then interviewed by Hondros College media people. We got our pictures taken and prepped more mannequins. Then we broke for lunch. After lunch, I helped her with more simulations and sat in on lectures. Then I left. Total Worktime: 6 hours.
Day 6: 6/13/19
Arrived an hour later than normal. They did skill test checks for individual medical students. We went to the other building and looked in her mailbox and for a certain staff member. We prepped sim labs. Then we had lunch. I sat in a lecture afterwards. I watched a simulation lab. Went home. Total Worktime: 6 hours.
Day 8: 7/8/19
Arrived around 9 as usual. Printed papers, relabeled manilla folders, wrote on the whiteboard, got out supplies for a new class coming in later that day. Set out sharps containers for IV practice. Went home at three. Total Worktime: 6:15 hours.
Day 10: 7/10/19
Arrived ten minutes early at 10:50. Sat in on lecture. Stapled many handouts for nursing students. Sat in on lecture. Went to lunch. Came back, set up simulation. Unfolded/broke down cardboard boxes. Washed pocket nurse "injectipads" and "popped their pimples." Left at 7:15. Total Worktime: 8:15 hours
Clara Schulze
Digital Portfolio
Career Interests
Medical Industry
Over the course of the Cancer project, I developed a large interest in the medical industry, and, more specifically, cancer research. When we began the Cancer project, we learned in Biology class about how cancer occurred on the cellular level. Sometimes a virus would interfere with the DNA copying process, and sometimes cells would just mutate and become cancer. In Wellness class, we learned about the many different types of cancer, their causes, their symptoms, and their mortality rates. It was interesting in both the macro and micro scale, so my curiosity slowly grew as we delved deeper into the project.
Before I explain my interest in Cancer research, I think a little background information on the Cancer project would be beneficial to the reader. The ultimate goal of the Cancer project was to create a video PSA that would advertise to people the symptoms, prevention methods, and seriousness of a chosen cancer. But before we could begin to create a PSA, we had to start from the ground up. The Cancer project began with, as I said earlier, learning about cancer. We spent a long time learning and researching the information needed to properly create our final product. Next, we wrote personal letters to someone close to us about a specific type of cancer of our choosing. After submitting these letters, we were put into large groups (9-10 people) according to whatever types of cancer we chose. Unsurprisingly, not very many people chose mouth cancer. Lung cancer was one of the more popular cancers, but mouth cancer is not as well-known and advertised. This is one reason why it should have been chosen over lung cancer or colon cancer; it’s not thought about as much as the others. When put into groups, we began brainstorming exactly how we wanted our PSA to look like and thought about who would go in what position. The positions to choose from were Director, First Assistant Director, Sound and Lighting, Scriptwriter, Camera Operator, Actor, and Editor. Each person had a job(s) to do, and we did them beautifully; we created a wonderful PSA.
Originally, the project was just another project to me. But, after we were put into groups, I really wanted to make a PSA that would encourage people to look out for mouth cancer. One of my main motivations behind this was because my biological dad died of tongue cancer, and I guess I felt a personal connection to that type of cancer. I wanted and still want to prevent what happened to my family from happening to other families. Consequently, I found myself pursuing extremely active roles in the project, as I ended up being a scriptwriter, actor, and editor. It was important to me that our project was genuinely remarkable. I developed the first draft of our script, and used a lot of my own research to do so. The first draft of our script is my first artifact, because it shows my dedication to the Cancer Project.
My second artifact is my research on cancer. I felt really interested in learning about cancer, so I had a lot of information at my disposal. The information contained in this document took me several days to compile, but I kept at it because of my interest.
Later in the year, I began a project for Honors Biology. We were to read a science related book and come out with a final product about the book we read. I chose The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. This book focused entirely on a famous cell line that was used for countless advances in the medical science. A woman who developed cancer in the 1950’s had some of her cancer cells taken away from her, which turned into the HeLa cell line. This book was really interesting because it contained even more in depth information on cancer and how cancer really worked. It old me why cancer cells could be immortal but normal cells could not. It was another contributing factor to my interest in a career in cancer research. My third artifact is Reading Post #4. In this post, I was doing an analysis of the latest section of the book I had been reading, and in this post I found out about the Hayflick Limit, which explains cancer cell immortality. At this point, I really knew that cancer research would definitely be a prospective career I would be choosing.
If I could help create a cure for any cancer, then that would be one less cancer for people to worry about. It would mean PSAs wouldn’t even be needed for that cancer. Of course, I know that different cancers behave differently, and there are already tons of experimental cures like wasp venom or a ketogenic diet, but doing something is better than doing nothing. In conclusion, if there is a way to eliminate even one type of cancer that can rip fathers away from their families—that’s something I want to strive for.
