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
Persistence
This year in History class over the course of many projects and assignments, I feel like I have grown in persistence. Persistence is one of the 5 Qualities. The 5 Qualities are five words (Creativity- making and doing cool things with what you’ve got, even if it’s the bare minimum, Persistence-trying hard over and over again even if you fail, Communication-talking through problems and working with someone else, Inquiry-asking tons of questions and being genuinely curious, and Collaboration-working effectively with other people) that we strive to be like here at DRSS. Persistence to me is one of the most important qualities because it supports all the others, you can’t be creative without being persistent, you can’t collaborate without persistence, you can’t ask lots of questions without being persistent, etc. Being persistent is like being all the other qualities at the same time. I used to not try as hard as I could, and I didn’t do things very well. As time progressed, I realized I need to work hard and try again or everything I do is in vain.
Like my first map quiz. A map quiz is sort of like where you receive a blank map that labels each state with a number. You get a second sheet with all the numbers on it and you try to match up the numbers with the states. The whole point is to help us 8th graders remember all the states. Not knowing all the states in your own country would be pretty embarrassing and not very helpful. A state is one of the constituent political entities that make up the USA. Our first map quiz wasn’t for a grade, but it was instead meant for the teacher to see how well you knew the map of the US. I got a 23/50, which is a failing score. I never had tried to remember my states until we had these map quizzes. It pushed me to remember. I started playing online states quizzes (courtesy of Mrs. Durkee and/or another student) and going over my states using expo and a dry erase map. By the time we had our next map quiz, which was actually for a grade, I knew every single one of my states. Over the next few map quizzes I most of the time got 100%. Eventually the quizzes also graded in spelling and I forgot the first ‘I’ in Louisiana or my ‘t’ looked like a ‘d’ and I lost points, but I have greatly improved. The more requirements, the more I have to up may game a.k.a. persistence. I also studied spelling especially from then on. I try harder. When I fail, I try again. This is the epitome of persistence, which is exactly what I didn’t do a while ago. Eventually, our quizzes will be worth 50 points and I will ace it. But only because I studied and tried and tried again on previous map quizzes.
My second artifact for my reflection is the Comic Book Project I made with a partner. The Comic Book Project was a project where we created a comic that shows the whole war between the British and Americans. We had to have several events from the war and we had to have pictures and cited information. The whole purpose was to educate ourselves and any others who wanted to read it. My partner and I’s first draft of our comic, to be honest, really sucked. It had all sorts of typos and no pictures and none of the words flowedBut we kept on working. We asked for critiques and used them to our fullest advantage. We looked at the rubric quite often and double-checked and triple-checked to make sure we had everything. We did hit a major bump near the end of the project because we made a bunch of changes and it was almost ready to turn in, but when we tried to reopen it, even from many different sources, it just wouldn’t open. I think it was a corrupted file. So we redid all of the changes we made the day before, and I tried to open it at home to continue to work on it, and this one was corrupted too. It corrupted itself as soon as we closed the file. I was very angry and stressed but I kept trying. Once I made all the changes I needed to make, I immediately converted it to a PDF and submitted it. Naturally, the original file was corrupted again so the only way I would ever be able to review it was through the PDF but at least I turned it in. This is us trying over and over again. At first, we just threw everything together, but when trouble came our way, we tried over and over again until we succeeded. This is evidence of huge growth in Persistence.
In conclusion, through my increased persistence that had been building up from map quizzes and projects (including that one), my partner I kept trying on that final file until I was able to turn it in (both of us couldn’t work on it at the same time because we were at home). Without persistence, that project would not be good or even around at all. I would not be able to do a lot of things I do, and if I tried to do the things I am doing today, back then, when I didn’t try very hard, my grade would not be great. Persistence is so important, because without it, nothing is achievable. The Wright brothers failed thousands of times, but that didn’t stop them, and they found their wings; they flew.
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