Blog 24: Last Presentation Reflection

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?

- I'm most proud of having a lot of content information and not speaking so fast. For every one of my answers, I had a little over 10 minutes of content. As a whole, my entire presentation went from 8:05 to 9:20 with just one activity. I'm proud of being able to speak for so long without choking up so badly. 

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation?  Use the component contract to defend that assessment.

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

- I would give myself a P+ because I justified all my answers, I had audience engaged and involved, I was professional (especially about topic), and I was organized.

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project? Use the component contract to defend that assessment.

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

- I would give myself a P+ because I did everything that was asked on component contact.

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

- Having a lot of information and explaining it thoroughly worked. My activity worked great, it got the audience involved and thinking. 

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project?

- I would've cut content time shorter, to include all 3 activities in presentation to help audience understand what I'm saying a little more. 

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.

- The senior project has allowed me to learn a lot about the medical field that I thought I already knew, but didn't. I learned all about nursing, how to approach a patient, and just the basics about general healthcare. This will help as a foundation understanding when going into the medical field as a career. 

Blog 18: Answer #2

1.  What is your EQ?

- How can a primary care nurse best ensure the quality of care for their patients?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

- A primary care nurse can best ensure the quality of care for their patients by first addressing any spiritual/religious beliefs. 

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

- A primary care nurse can best ensure the quality of care for their patients by having constant direct communication with the patient. 

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

- With direct communications, less errors will be because the communication is direct: face to face.

- Direct communication avoids misunderstandings when something is passed down from a person to the next. 

- Direct communication avoids errors when trying to communicate through phone, text, or email; reassurance that the person is actually listening. 

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

- Kourkouta, Lambrini, and Ioanna V. Papathanasiou. “Communication in Nursing Practice.” Materia Socio-Medica 26.1 (2014): 65–67. PMC. Web. 25 Feb. 2016.

6.  What other source supports your answer?

- Fong, Jennifer Ha. "Doctor-Patient Communication: A Review." Academic Division of Ochsner Clinic Foundation. The Other Journal, 2010. Web. Feb. 6 2016.

- Shukla, Ajay Kumar. "Doctor-Patient Communication: An Important but Often Ignored Aspect in Clinical Medicine." Indian Acadmey of Cinical Medicine (Journal). 2010. Web. 5 Feb. 2016.

7.  Tie this together with a concluding thought...

- I have an answer # 3, self-reflection. I feel as though all three answers all tie in hand-in-hand and create a very powerful essential question. My answer #2, isn't as vague as I thought it would be, because I clearly address that it's not just communication, it's 'DIRECT' communication. 

Lesson 2 Reflection

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?

- I can honestly say that the thing I’m most proud of the most in lesson 2, was actually meeting time, and speaking a lot slower than usual. Usually, I’d just slur my words, mumble, speak really fast, and be done with it. However, this time, I was a lot slower than usual. Yeah, I was still pretty fast, but I was a lot slower than I’m used to. I’m also proud of all the information that was retained within my head, and for not reading word for word directly off the board. I’m just overall a lot happier and more content with this lesson.

2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE       P          AP       CR       NC

-  I would give myself a P.

     b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

- The reasons to why I think I deserve this grade, is because I did everything that was asked for on the “P Requirements contract”.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

- Walking around while presenting my lesson worked for my lesson 2, having a video as a hook worked, and allowing people to interact with one another during activity also worked.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

- If I had a time machine, I’d take a deeper breathe and speak nice and steady. Also, I’d arrange the classroom into pairs of two, allowing them to just have one partner to discuss their activity with.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

- I think my answer number two is going to be addressing medical history or background.

Blog 11: Lesson 1 Reflection

1. What are you most proud of in your lesson, and why?
• I'm most proud of my final lesson template component because it's detailed, it's very organized, and because it's easy to follow. 
2. What assessment would you give yourself on your lesson? Explain why you earned that grade using evidence from the component contract.
   
• Based off the component contract, I qualify for a "P", however that may not be the grade I get. Overall, I think that I deserve an AP, due to the fact that I cited more than 1 source and mentioned my mentor and my 1st interview. I believe that because of my fast speed in talking, I wasn't too clear, so that may be brining my grade down. In addition to that, I don't know if I proved that I had all the knowledge and points across the way I thought I did, so that may have brought me down as well. 
3. If you could go back, what would you change about your lesson?  How can you use that knowledge to give a better Lesson 2?
• If I could go back, I would change the overload on information. I think that because I had such an overload of information to provide the class with, I panicked so I spoke fast. I would change the way I grasp my peers' attention and the way I presented my points. I believe that for lesson 2, I should learn from all the mistakes that I may have done and improve upon everything. One thing I'll take into consideration is to practice my presentation more than twice; I should learn it and try to teach the class more on the topic, rather than just spit information that may not make sense. For lesson 2, I should be a lot more prepared of what's expected and I should be a lot more educated on my topic - making it easier to talk about.