Blog 21: Indépendant Component 2

Literal:

• a) I, Jazmin Morales, affirm that I have completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
• b) The source that helped me complete my independent component was
• c) Log “Independent Component 2” located on the side of Blog
• d) During the time that I was at my mentors I worked on many things. I mailed out letters to many patients that needed to come in for a follow up due to their blood work. I organized the doctors I also shadowed the medical assistant Amber Razo and watched her process patients. I also watched her process blood and urine samples; though I could not do it myself she guided me through the steps and explained what was being done. Through this I learned how necessary it is to gain the patients trust and how important it is to ask them questions about their health history.

Interpretive:

This is where I would sit when the patient would not give me permission to go into their exam room. I wait for the medical assistant Amber to finish collecting information from the patient.

This machine checks patients urine samples to see if their pH, Nitrite, Leukocytes, Glucose and Ketone levels were normal. It also checks to see if blood is present. Many times teens would go complaining of a Urinary Tact infection, and Amber would run their urine in this machine. I was not allowed to run their samples but I would watch her. Many times the teens that were sexually active were the ones that had the UTI. 

These strips check for the same things that the machine above checks for, but it is not as accurate. 

This is the list that I had to highlight patients names if they were on another list that was for a follow up appointment. I had to mail out letters to them. 

This is Stephanie Gamboa, I would report to her every time I would go in to do hours, since my mentor is on maternity leave. I would also help her when she needed me to do things. 

This is the medical assistant Amber, which I shadowed for a few days to learn the procedure for when a teen comes in with concerns of an STD.

Applied:

• The way that this independent component helped me with my senior project was that it helped me answer one of my Essential Questions. I saw my first answer actually being enforce. My first answer was that, It is better to start informing youth from an early age about the consequences of being sexually active. The Medical Assistant Amber, was asking a thirteen year old girl about her relationships. The girl responded saying that she had had three serious relationships. So Amber decided to ask the mother to step out and the mother agreed, sometimes the parents are persistent and they will not step out. After that I stepped out as well and when Amber returned she informed me about the responses that the girl had given her. She informed me that it was the young girls first time to this family practice, and she had never been given information in regards to birth control. So Amber informed her about the birth control and asked her if she would like the doctor to prescribe her a prescription and the young girl said not at this time. But she was very relieved that she could come in and get it at any time without her mother knowing. She was comfortable enough to talk to amber and ask her questions, in which were relayed to the doctor to answer. This proves, that youth need to be informed about the consequences of being sexually active before they actually become sexually active. This girl was only thirteen and had never been informed about how she could obtain birth control, yet she had been in three relationships. 
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