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
Language Arts
Critiquing
This year in Language Arts class I believe I grew in critiquing.
One endeavor that proves I grew in critiquing is the Storybook Project. The Storybook was a project you did with a partner where you created a children’s book to teach young kids about peer pressure, effective communication or refusal skills. The Storybook PowerPoint critique was before the next endeavor’s critique and I don’t think I gave as good feedback when I did the next endeavor’s critique. Since I did better the second time around, I improved in my critiquing.
Another endeavor that proves I grew in critiquing is The Steal a Line Poem. The Steal a Line poem was just a poem but every stanza had a line from a book or a movie or something. The line had to be an exact quote and your poem had to be based upon it.
My first artifact that proves my growth is the PowerPoint we critiqued for the Storybook PowerPoint Critique. This is what other people critiqued and is an example. You can see we worked hard on it. We chose refusal skills and rhyming for our story. We used watercolors for pictures, but those haven’t been created yet at this point. This proves my growth because my partner and I didn’t respond as well to people’s critiques and suggestions than when we did in the Steal a Line Poem critique. Like originally, we were thinking, this is a dumb piece of advice and then after, we really gave it some thought and really considered it.
My second artifact that proves my growth is my Final Steal a Line Poem. You can see that I put a lot of effort into the rhymes and even listened to people’s suggestions. I know one green hat comment was to remove a stanza about how I didn’t seem to be making sense so I made it more obvious that I was talking about myself. A green hat comment is a piece of critique that gives someone a suggestion. There is a Green Hat, Black Hat, Red Hat, Yellow Hat, White Hat, and Blue Hat. Each is a different type of critique. We use these hats almost every day to critique our work. They are important guidelines at DRSS. A stanza is a basically a group of lines in a poem usually having 4 lines. This proves my growth because I responded better to the suggestions than when we did the Storybook PowerPoint critique.
In conclusion, I grew in critiquing and this will help me in the future. I grew greatly over a lot of endeavors and am now especially thoughtful. This will help me in the future because when I have to work with other people and listen to their advice, I can really apply it better and really think about what they are saying instead of brushing it off.
This is my 1st artifact, a younger version of my Storybook. We critiqued it in class.
This is my 2nd artifact, Final Steal a Line Poem. I named it "Dear Penn"