- a) I, Jazmin Morales, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
- b) Stephanie Gamboa: Office Manager at Cora Med, (909) 865-5777
- Mentor is Emma Cook
- c) Log is on the side.
- d) I continued to do my hours at with my mentor. There I organized all the patients charts for 2012. I also learned how to take patients blood pressure be hand, without the use of a machine. I followed the doctor and through that process I learned how they approach patients when it comes to disease prevention. I also organized paper work for the doctor.
Interpretive
- This picture shows a patient getting their blood pressure checked. Throughout the time, I watched many patients get there blood pressure checked. Then i would practice on the nurses. It took me many trials to finally get it right. This is the first thing that all patients get checked before they are seen by the doctor.
- In this picture the patient is getting their weight checked. It is a part of disease prevention because children need to be on the right track with their weight. This will benefit them in the future when they are teens and if on the correct path from an early age they will reduce the risk of getting a disease.
- Here my mentor is talking to the teen about their medical history. I could not take a picture of the teen because they did not want to have their identity revealed. P.A. Emma ask them many questions in regards to being sexually active. Here is where I learned how to approach a teen about their sexual activity and how to give them advice.
- Here is a picture of urine samples, I watched the nurses perform pregnancy test on them. The nurses told me that many teen girls come in with symptoms of being pregnant but deny that they are, so they still perform the pregnancy test to find out if they are or not. During the time that I was volunteering I saw many teenagers go in without their parents.
- Here is a picture of my mentor writing a prescription for birth control for a teenager. The teenager has been sexually active for over a year and usually has unprotected sex. So my mentor talked to her about the consequences and informed her that she can still contract and STD even while using the birth control. Some times the teenager would not allow me to go into the room because they were uncomfortable with me hearing what they were there for. So my mentor would tell me what occurred after the patient left. She would discuss with me their options and what she told them in regards to the reason for their visit.
Applied
- This helped me understand the foundation of my topic because I got to see disease prevention taking place right in front of me. I understood it a little better, than when I just do research and read it. A specific example that helped me understand the importance of disease promotion in youth was when my mentor was telling me a story about a twelve or thirteen year old girl that was going out with an older teenager. He pressured her into having sex with him and she contracted an STD. She did not know the symptoms of STD's so when she went in for her yearly physical the doctor discovered that she had it. This shows me that even if a youth looks to young to be doing things that can put them in danger of contracting an STD. Its important to talk to them from an early age and inform them of the risks and consequences, I learned that the youngest age they prescribe birth control to is twelve years old. So basically its never to early to star talking about disease prevention.
