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
Wellness and Fitness
Stamina
This year I grew in my stamina in Wellness and Fitness. Stamina is being able to exercise and exert energy for a long time. I am performing differently in my Irish dancing and in Wellness & Fitness because of it. This difference is good, now I can do a lot more and exercise better. An endeavor that proves this is the Pacer Test because I got more paces the second time so I improved. I think that a lot of the games that we played in class really helped because they were a lot of the time, running games where we ran for a super long time and rarely got breaks. This was really pulling at my stamina and my stamina improved. I actually have an artifact for the Pacer Test.
My first artifact is the Fitness Assessment Log: 7th grade. You can see on my first Pacer Test, I only got 23, but on the second time, I got 38. The Pacer Test tests your endurance which is basically your stamina. When you get more laps, you ran for longer without getting tuckered out, this shows you have better endurance. You basically listen to a track that tells you when to stop and go, and he gives you less and less time to run a lap. Since I got better the second time, my stamina improved.
My second artifact is the Fitness Data Chart: 1st Quarter. It shows my growth (the heart rate differs because we do different exercises which require different exertions of energy) because Everybody Bean Bag Tag and Steal the Gold are both listed on the paper and are both very difficult games where everyone is constantly running (away from people or beanbags). When we did Everybody Bean Bag, the heart rates were 198 and 204 and when we did Steal the Gold, the rates were 204 and 174. I ran as fast as I could the entire time of each, except when I got out and I had to do excercises. That means my heart didn’t have to work as hard during Steal the Gold. Since the heart rate has a lot to do with my stamina, and it was after Everybody Bean Bag, it only further proves my claim because if my heart didn’t have to work as hard, my stamina is better.
Artifact #1
This is where we recorded the amount of sit ups, laps, push ups, etc.
Artifact #2
This is where we recorded our heart rates and RPE