Practicum Reflection

There are students that don’t eat lunch because they don’t like what is provided. If the students are back by the time the next class starts students should be able to leave. The school should give students a chance to prove they can be trusted. Schools should give them a specific amount of chances and if they ruin those chances they shouldn’t be able to leave anymore, but they don’t even give them a chance.

Reflection for practice in health care is predetermined skilled activity where individual evaluates and explains own ideas, feelings, behavior and intervention and provides clinical reason of its effectiveness. Reflection is a process of looking at own behavior and changing self rather than expecting others to change. While changing self, values and moral should be considered. However cultural background, workplace culture highly influences the values. For example: medical restrain: Medical restrain is restricting the movement of a patient with slight pain in order to prevent harming themselves and others. At the time when I used to work in an institution I have seen many cases of restrain. I

The behavior at lunch is strange, especially on fridays. The kids are stuck in class for five periods and they finally get free for thirty five minutes. All the kids yell at each other from across the cafeteria. A lot of kids screaming and the boy screaming like little girls. Not many of the kids are quiet and good. Some of the quiet kids quoted that “They are lucky to get of lunch alive”.

Nationwide students waist over 70% of fruits and vegetables,while others are sitting around without food at all in other places(Public brief). Some students only get the 2 meals they are provided with at school ,but they often are not provided with enough to eat. Its import for low income and less fortunate families to be provided enough time to eat to make sure they are receiving there energy and daily nutrients(Godoy& Allison). Increasing the school lunch time will also save the schools a great amount of money(Public brief). School lunch food wasted to cost $1.2 billion dollars each year,which is enough for a person to buy a new car everyday of there life(Public brief). A simple increase in time could save schools a bunch of money needed to improve the school building and faculty. Many cafeteria staff and teachers have reported complaints about how students aren't eating all their food and they have to throw it away(EHHI). Most of the time in high schools foods are sold à la carte instead of a full meal to avoid having to throw away or make more food(EHHI). As a result of the food waste cafeterias started using foods with more fats and less nutritious items to get students to eat( EHHI). Cafeteria are selling french fries and not the healthy food to make there money because students aren't eating enough of the

Tired of not finishing your lunch? Personally, I say lunches should be extended because, students have to eat fast, and the lunch lines are drawn out.

The first recommendation for Lacy Elementary would be to split lunch into three groups since the cafeteria is too small and the number of students exceeds capacity when split into two groups. This would ensure that no more than 220 students would be in the cafeteria at one time, making managing the population easier and reducing the amount of pushing and shoving. Students would be able to get through the lunch lines with less wait time. The expectations of cafeteria behavior should be posted in an area visible to all students and staff. Procedures for dropping classes off, student routines in the cafeteria, and dismissal of students from cafeteria need to be established and followed by all staff and students. Students should be required to enter the cafeteria, grab their lunch and sit in their assigned are of the

Students do not have the time to wait in line for five to eight minutes just to buy lunch in you cafeteria. Most students carry around their books in their bags from previous periods and do not have time to drop off their bags at their lockers. There is simply not enough time suitable for a student to get their lunch and have it comfortably on this campus.

Essentially, during lunch time, only two levels (6th and 7th) will be at the cafeteria from 12 to 1pm. The third level (8th) will pass to pick up their lunch and will return to the classroom from 12 to 1pm.

Students are not limited to what they can and cannot have, therefore the cafeteria runs out of food very quickly, there is not much of a selection, students are always cutting to get in line, students steal food because the cafeteria is so crowded they cannot tell when a student takes food without paying.

Since its opening over 40 years ago, California High School had an open lunch policy for seniors- anyone wishing to eat their lunch elsewhere could simply sign out and bolt. Within the past three years, we’d been asked by the district to collect data regarding open lunch. Over half of senior students were significantly late to post-lunch classes, despite no more than a third of students signing out. As students were urged to return earlier, increasing numbers of parents angrily stormed the office demanding the district accept liability for their

The schedule that we have now is one period of 1.5 hours followed by a small 15 minute nutrition break. After that we have another 1.5 hour period and then a 30 minute lunch. And finally after lunch two 1.5 hour periods. For a long day like that only 45 minutes of breaks is too short. The new plan would have a 1.5 hour period followed by a 15 minute nutrition break. Then you will have another period of 1.5 hours. After that you will have a lunch break for an hour. Followed by the third period that contains an hour and 15 minutes and finally the last 1.5 hour period. You will still have a start at 8:30am and the end of the day will be at 3:30pm as usual. Also you have 5 minutes to get to your next class so the periods are actually 1 hour and 25 minutes and 1 hour and 15 minutes for third period.

The role of the nurse is becoming more difficult nowadays, especially when dealing with patient safety. Patient safety risks can lead to several adverse effects. According to Van Rosse, de Bruijne, Suurmond, Essink-Bot, and Wagner (2016) there is a connection between a language barrier and patient safety that is affecting the health and improvement of the patient. During my practicum I have experienced many different situations where the difference in language has been an issue from both parts. The following situation made me realize the importance of patient safety and how language barrier can affect or delay the positive outcome of the patient.

I also learned that during peak hours of operation at both cafeterias the same amounts of workers are on duty, to deal with the mass volumes of students. Students find that when they receive their meals the food is often cold which is a health concern when food is not properly heated. This can cause other concerns for student health for example food poisoning, which I reluctantly got from eating food from the Howard university cafeteria. Some of the alternatives that I propose are to increase the amount of workers during rush hour times to decrease the wait time. Also increase food options in what is Howard’s food court “Punch Out," Determining what changes to the current system that will be most effective above will have to be analyzed in a most cost effective way.

It was brought to my attention that you are thinking about allowing all students in seventh through twelfth grade to leave the building during lunchtime. Students would be allowed to go off school grounds for lunch and will have to return back in time for their next class. According to this news, you are considering this change in order to give students freedom during this time of their day. It is well aware that you want to give students this opportunity, but I am against this proposal. Students in grades seventh through twelfth should not be permitted to leave the school grounds during lunchtime because they have limited time, may be tempted to do wrong, and there are better alternatives.

But if the administration would look at this from the student’s point of view, they could possibly see why students are upset by not having an open lunch hour. The administration seems to think that all students will act the same if given the privilege of an open lunch hour. But this is because they aren’t looking at this from a student’s point of view. Many students are well behaved in school, and deserve trust from teachers and such. If those students aren’t allowed an open lunch hour, because of some irresponsible student actions, then you could see why that could be irritating to the well behaved students.