Blog 20: Three Column Chart First Draft

3 Column Chart: First Draft

Blog 19: Senior Project and ESLRs

1.  What ESLR have you excelled in most in your senior project? 

• I think I have excelled in the Effective Learner. 

2.  Please explain why you think you have excelled in this ESLR.

• I believe I have excelled in Effective Learner category because I manage what I do with my mentor, I do not need others to tell me what I need to do for my senior project. Then I incorporate what I have learned at my mentorship into my senior project components. 

3.  Provide evidence from your senior project to support your claim (evidence is a photo of something you are doing, photo of something you made, etc).

This is a photo of a three year old patient that my mentor is treating for Pink Eye. My mentor is talking to him about germs and how your not supposed to share drinks and etc with others. This taught me that it is important to tech children about that stuff from an early age and when they are older you can then talk to them about other stuff like STDs.

Blog 18: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

1.  What is the best way to promote STD prevention in youth?

2.  The third answer to my essential question is that parents need to use the media to make connections between that and sex talks.
3.Three details to justify my third answer

• Not all children or teens feel comfortable talking to their parents about sex and STDs. 
• There needs to be something that makes them more open to talking about the subject. Like something that they like to watch, then the parent can make a connection between the two and start the conversation. 
• Build a good line of communication from early on. If parents are not open to talking about sex or STD protection wheb kids are young then the youth will be less likely to seek out the parents when they are older and have questions.
•  The parents may use the media if they feel more comfortable to start the conversation. But they need to let the youth lead the conversation. 

4.  My 40th research article "Kids Health" helped me prove my third answer.
5.  The next thing I plan to study is different techniques used to promote STD prevention in youth. I plan on doing this because teens can hear information about STDs but they need to be interested in it or hear it in an interesting way in order to actually learn from the information given to them.  

Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

1) What is the best way to promote STD prevention in youth?
2) What are some ways STD programs can be implemented in schools?
3) Where have you seen STD prevention promoted?
4) If STD prevention is implemented in schools, in what grade do you believe it should start being done?
5) When given facts about STDs, who will teens listen to the most?
6) How can teens you reduce the risk of contracting an STD?
7) When children are at a young age, what should be taught to them in regards to STDs?
8) At what age should information about STDs be given?
9) How else can teens protect themselves against STDs, if they are already using condoms?
10) What needs to be done, in order for a school to implement STD prevention programs?
11) If abstinence is the best way to reduce the risk of contracting an STD, then why are so many teens still contracting them?
12) There are many ways people can contract STDs, so what other things should be talked about besides abstinence?
13) If schools do not incorporate STD prevention into their curriculum, then how will teens be informed about that?
14) At what age should teens get tested for STDs? And how often?
15) How should STD prevention be implemented in the teens lives?
16) What are different techniques that schools can use to get teens to attend the program?
17) If teens choose to be sexually active, why do parents get to choose whether or not the teen attends the STD prevention program?
18) Based on your knowledge of STDs, how do you know if you have one? And how do you go about treating it?
19) When talking to teens about STDs, what else should they be informed about?
20) How can the schools reduce the spread of STDs amongst their students?

Blog 16: 2- Hour Meeting Answer #2

1) What is the best way to promote disease prevention in youth in family medicine.
2) The second answer to my essential question is that teachers need to be educated on the different types of diseases so that they can then incorporate what they have learned into the curriculum. 
3) Three details to justify my second answer

• Each state needs to pass a law and policies on STD education, in order to allow teachers to teach youth about this topic. 
• Each state should come up with a training program to help educate teachers on the HIV and STDs. This will allow the teachers to inform the youth with accurate information in regards to the diseases. 
• Schools have direct contact with more than 56 million students daily, for at least 6 hours a day. For about thirteen critical years of their social, physical and intellectual development. 

4) The CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health helped me prove my second answer. 

5) I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by researching more programs that incorporate this method into their schools curriculum. 

Blog 15: Independant Component 2 Plan Approval

1) I plan on continuing my service learning hours with my mentor and learning more about the STDs in teenagers.
2) I think my plan of continuing my mentorship hours will allow me to complete the 30 required hours because I shadow my mentor and do office work. They always allow me to do both, unless the patient does not allow me to go in the room.
3) My independant component relates to my working EQ because I will gain knowledge in regards to my topic and I will probably see first hand encounters with patients that are going in for STD related illnesses.

Blog 14: Independant Component 1

Literal

• 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.