Senior Project and ESLRs

1. The ESLR that I have demonstrated the most throughout my senior project is the effective communicator.
2. Throughout the course of my mentorship I have greatly demonstrated my ability to excel in this ESLR in many ways. I am able to listen and help people who are older than me in many ways. Ways that demonstrate all levels of this ESLR.
3.  However while I work with them I recognize that it is very important to work on my own. I am never hesitant to take on my own tasks. With the American Cancer Society the first task I was given was for myself alone to be sent to a women's health convention and advocate/set up for them. At the hospital, due to the fact that the nurses are so busy it is my responsibility to go and help on my own. I am given my own tasks/ errands.

2 hour meeting answer #3

1. How can a family best cope with a breast cancer diagnosis?
2. A family can greatly cope and benefit from keeping in contact with and using The American Cancer Society
3. The American Cancer Society every year holds a numerous amount of events that greatly benefit all types of cancer. The american cancer society has many other types of programs for families such as support groups. Not only that they have programs for the diagnosed as an individual such as the look good feel better program. The American Cancer Society holds many ways for any individual to get involved.
4. Cancer.org really helped me because it leads to other links that I can use to learn more about the support programs and other programs available specifically I used the support group. link.
5. I plan to study the making strides against breast cancer event. I also plan to understand more of the breast cancer specific events and attending a breast cancer support group to further my understanding. 

2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1. How can a family best cope with a breast cancer diagnosis?
2. The family of the diagnosed should empower themselves with knowledge.
3.The family shouldn't leave everything up to the doctor. Nor should they expect that they are going to receive all the information needed from the doctor.
When people hear that they have been diagnosed with cancer their minds instantly go to death. While the doctor is talking they don't hear everything that has been said. It is up to them and their families to look up their diagnosis to fill in those blanks.
Knowing more about something always makes a person feel like they are more in control.
4.In all four of my interviews I was told from their professional opinion, the best way to cope with a cancer diagnosis is through knowledge. My interviews gave me this answer but the source that helped me support it greatly was "Stand By Her- A breast Cancer guide for men."
5.I plan to continue my study of my answer 2 by continuing to work at the American Cancer Society, and by sitting in and working with support groups to see if my answer really is true.

Senior Project Update

(1) What are you currently doing in your independent component? 
I have turned in the application to become a California Legislative Ambassador

(2)  An article titled "tips for friends and coping with cancer" really helped me with the other side of coping with cancer. Because of it I would really like to go and find a support group that doesn't deal with cancer patients themselves but with the people who are "indirect cancer survivors." I feel that there is a whole world that is entirely unexposed, the way a direct cancer survivors world is exposed. 

(3) Provide evidence from your independent component or the piece of research as something you recently did.  For example, a photo of something you working on for your independent component or your notes from the video you watched. 

Blog 9

1. What is the best way to cope with cancer?
2. I am not going to revise my EQ at this time.
3. Support groups, paying attention to the bodies physical needs, empowering yourself with education, and group therapy.

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.