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
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Internship
Introduction
My internship was located at Hondros College of Nursing. Hondros has several locations throughout Ohio and is dedicated to the education of young adults aiming to become nurses. As an intern, I assisted and shadowed a professor around the simulation labs and classrooms. Since the college wasn’t specifically looking for interns when I applied, there was no internship program with set requirements for me to follow. Otherwise, I was required to be dressed in business casual and maintain a professional demeanor.
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
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Internship Reflection
My internship was located at Hondros College of Nursing. Hondros has several locations throughout Ohio and is dedicated to the education of young adults aiming to become nurses. As an intern, I assisted and shadowed the Lab Manager, Professor Angela Turner, around the simulation labs and classrooms. Almost every day, a new class would be doing something called a simulation lab or SimLab for short. The professors were supposed to set these up for their individual class, but the Lab manager often had to pick up the slack.
As an intern, I also helped with the setup of SimLabs. SimLabs are when nursing students interact with a medical Manikin as if it were a real patient. The professor of the class goes to a backroom where they view the situation through cameras and voice the patient through speakers. The professor also has access to a variety of sound effects like farts and screams to further the medical simulation. There is always a predetermined disease and skit that the professor uses. When I helped with the setup of SimLabs, my duties usually included undressing and redressing Manikins, cleaning sticky residue off of Manikin limbs, retrieving and setting up props, and more. I ended up helping deconstructing SimLabs frequently even though technically the professors are supposed to do that themselves.
When I had spare time, I tended to sit in on some of the lectures for the nursing students. I also cleaned little devices called Injectipads. They were little silicon-like squishy buttons that the nursing students used to practice injecting. I found out from this that nurses and doctors do not immediately know how to stick their patients. It never occurred to me that this was something that needed to be taught. There are entire classes dedicated to the teaching of properly using needles with patients. I had to completely deconstruct each one, wash every piece, dry it all, reconstruct them all, and then put them away. I also had to do a little fun task Professor Turner liked to call “popping pimples.” The job is exactly like what it sounds like. When the students injected liquid into the pads, it left little pockets of water in the pads that formed pimples. I had to find those little pockets and pop them to get out the juices. It was a satisfying task. Another task I received was filling up simulated packets with distilled water. The packets were to going be used for SimLabs in the future as fake IV bags and other medical stuff. I would take a large syringe and squirt distilled water into each bag until it was full. Then I would close the bag with a separate cap and organize them all into a box. I probably filled up hundreds of them in all sorts of various sizes. Sometimes I labelled bags and folders for future SimLabs. I also sat in on many nursing lectures and watched educational videos. At one point, I was the score keeper for several jeopardy review games for the nursing students. These are just a few of many little duties I had to do throughout my internship.
Sometime in the middle of my internship, I did an interview alongside my mentor, Professor Turner, with a media team for their college. I was their first and only intern, and they were excited to have me at the college.
Because of this internship, I learned that nursing was not a job for me. Their duties are too grisly and they are required to be more polite than I would be able to handle. They have to do tasks like cleaning and washing patients, helping them go to the restroom, cleaning up vomit, and a number of other stuff. I can handle blood, but I am not sure if I can handle wiping a patient’s butt. Due to this revelation, I realized I want to do something with biology and/or healthcare, but not something that involves a lot of interaction with patients. Some career fields I am looking at are radiology and microbiology. I have always loved kids so pediatrics could also be a good route.
At the end of my internship, I had become friends with my internship mentor. I am friends with her on Facebook and she still follows my achievements as a student and a dancer. Sometimes we ate lunch together and she gave me advice ranging from college choices to leading a healthy lifestyle. It was a fun experience and I am glad I was able to have it.