Oncology in pediatrics.

A) My topic is Oncology in pediatrics. Originally when I was choosing my topic I had chosen nursing, not in any department in particular but just nursing in general. After going to my orientation and choosing a department to work in, I found I had interest in cancer, but not just anyone with cancer. I have had many past experiences with people who have fought cancer, however one experience stuck with me forever. When I was 10 my family and I became very close friends with a family my mom met at her job at the hospital. The daughter was my age and had tumors in her torso area. For months my family was there with them as she went through the treatment and tried to fight it off. The end result stuck with me for the rest of my life. It was from those memories that I decided I would like to narrow my topic down to cancer in pediatrics.
B)

• Effective Ipoly Citizen: I plan on becoming a much more responsible being through this project and overall to make sure that I am on top of things this year. I also plan to show that Ipoly has given me the proper skills to accomplish the tasks that will be given to me in other aspects of this project outside of being at school. 
• Effective Communicator: While spending time at the hospital I understand that I will be dealing with many sick people and that everyone I come in contact with will be at a different stress and emotional level. Through this I feel that I will learn how to handle "mood swings" better without feeling offended and be able to maintain my professionalism. 
• Effective Learner: I plan on making it my responsibility to do the research to further define cancer and the different types/forms it comes it. I understand that the nurses at San Antonio Hospital while there to assist me if needed, I am ultimately there to assist them, and I must teach myself how to properly do so. I also feel that overtime I will learn how to make the patients that I come into contact with feel more comfortable with me.
• Effective User of Technology: Throughout the course of my senior project, I plan to use all the technology I have available to me. In the medical field there are many different terms and medicines that I will need to define for my own reference and I plan on using technology to it's greatest extent to do so.