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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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.