Practicum Reflection Paper

When I first decided to expand my education, it had been so long since I had been to school, and I was very hesitant. I talked at length about my decision with my husband and with his encouragement, decided to enroll but still was not quite sure which degree program to enroll in. I knew that this was something that I had always wanted to do since I obtained my Associates Degree in Nursing, but I did not have the courage, nor did I want to give up the time with my family and children. I second guessed my abilities and my knowledge because it had been so long since I had been in college. Now that my children are about to graduate high school and

Furthermore, during this week, I met with Linda two times, each time for two hours and discussed in more detailed the "process improvement" project that she is working on. When I began my practicum at Chicago Proton Center, one of my practicum objectives was to be able to describe the Project management and Process improvement.Thus, most of my time this week was spent learning about this project and pleased to say that I successfully achieved this goal. Subsequently, I will explain in more details what are the various parts that go into this project, the general process of how the project was initially planned, developed, and completed. While the center struggles to meet its projected patients volume, Linda's project focuses to increase patients volume by improving communication across the departments within organization, to identify the issues that other departments have that affect the overall patient flow in the Chicago Proton Center.

During the first half of my Integrated Practicum, I was independent for the most time, applying my critical thinking, decision-making, communication, and research abilities, but I also asked for assistance or support from my Preceptor and CCD if difficult question raised. I followed the CHNC standards of building trusting relationship and demonstrated professional accountability, responsibility, and adaptability in approaching clients, groups, community partners, nurses, peers, and other professionals. I worked collaboratively in teams and fostered growth with other nursing students by sharing knowledge or alternative approaches or offering the topics to explore. I am confident that I am gaining the necessary

In my third and fourth week of the practicum, I have become more comfortable talking to my patients. These five days paved a way for me to actually be more confident and use my nursing judgement and communicate with my patients. I week four, I feel like I am starting to feel more like a nurse, what’s surprising is that the patients themselves, actually forget that I am a student. I did not even know that I had a powerfully voice. Every time I am educating patients, sometimes they are in the room with their family members, in the end I am not only talking to mom, but I am also educating the family members to. To my surprise, they all pay attention, and listen to me. They look up to me for answers. The best moment was when the night of the 27th, I helped another nurse with her C-section patient, I helped in getting her catheter out, and clean her, helped her walk (She was in bed for literally 5 days in labor and delivery, and fainted 3 times there). She was only 20, so her boyfriend was also scared, and it’s their first baby. We finally got her to walking. The next day, when I was coming out of my patient’s room for the first introduction after report change, this young man walked toward me happy, jumping as if he wanted to hug me, and all the sudden started telling me how his girlfriend is doing, how she is now able to walk, and doesn’t faint anymore. He was just thanking me of the job I did the night before. It was the happiest day of my life. Because my nurse was place on

Sitting in the crowd at my older brother’s graduation among thousands of others celebrating their accomplishments is when it all hit me, in just a few short months the house is going to be empty. It will be just me and my parents. From growing up in a big family to being an only child it was certainly a challenge for me. I'm used to a crowded sometimes chaotic home where I yearned for peace and quiet to now practically begging my siblings to come home and make noise again. Learning to adapt to these changes have shaped me to be the person I am today. Despite how hard it was to see my siblings leave me for college I got a new understanding of myself and personally grew a lot from these adjustments.

Brothers and Sisters, hear the words of the prophet Isiah. I know you're all skeptical about what is real and what is the nature of reality but don’t fear Jesus and Christianity are real.

Do you remember what your priorities were when you were eight years old? When I was that age (1965), I was in third grade. One of my jobs was to make breakfast on weekday mornings for some of my younger brothers and sisters. At that age, my primary goal was to figure out ways to get out of work around the house, so I could go outside and play with my cousins who lived in the neighborhood.

“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.” –Winston Churchill. I do remember my late grandfather narrating alluring anecdotes from his time in the Indian Air Force and a few of my late great grandfather’s heroics while he served in the British Army (1917-1946). I slowly started to develop a taste for war-time stories, military history as a whole which always intrigued me, possibly because of my family lineage. I am always curious to learn more about our past, about the mistakes made by our forefathers that however frivolous they may seem or sound but were enough to instigate a war.

I learned some pretty strange things in my middle school sex education class. However, I’d consider myself lucky! My class was the only one to have a speaker come in to talk to us. He taught about one thing, and one thing only:

I had the opportunity to take 2 hard college classes this year STEM, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine, studies and engineering, but I’m only going to talk about engineering because were eating lunch and I don’t think anyone wants to talk about diseases while they eat lunch.

Interpretation of Literature has given me an excellent opportunity to not only work on my analysis of novels, but improve my adroitness in creating an argumentative and interpretative paper and thesis. I developed a different mindset on how to go about starting and finishing a strong paper after dissecting each novel we read every class period. By taking a look at each one individually and picking out main points, I started to take notes on what we talked about for ideas on future papers. It took me a while to get ahold of everything, and I don’t think I’m anywhere near perfect yet, but with determination I have gradually learned the basics to the different parts of each interpretive paper. I’d say my weakest points that have slowly grown stronger are my abilities to write a thesis, and give good supporting evidence and statements to back it up.

Isn't amazing to think that every word you say and every action you undertake has the potential to change the world? I know that through my education at UConn, I can accomplish that goal.

The Father, the son, and the Holy Spirit have been recited so fondly that nearly everyone can pinpoint where it is from. For me, religion was more of an obscure and abstract painting, but more my family members it was always so crystal clear especially for my mother. Prayer at the dinner table was for good health, and that the food would nourish the family so that everyone may be healthy and live long lives. I have known a general story of God, the creator and father of all things on this planet, and Jesus, his son who sacrificed himself for his father’s creations. We sing songs to worship and honor Jesus’ choice to prevent us from falling too deeply into the faults of our choices. For me, Jesus is always around us and not at all, he is a whisper in the wind that beckons me to come closer, but I stumble and lose my way. When I am lost in a sea of religious doubt or confusion, I look to my mother who is there light the way.

The practicum took place in Fudacion Hogar de Cuenca. Fudacion Hogar is a clinic that has been in existence for 7 years. Doing a practicum in this clinic does help the students who want to pursue a career in medical field to see how medicine is practiced in other countries. This clinic allowed 12 of us to be stationed in different departments that they have such as urology, general medicine, laboratory, ophthalmology, allergology, physical therapy, pharmacy, dermatology, dentistry, traumatology, and hospital. Every week, we were given a schedule that showed us where we were supposed to be during the week. The schedule was well organized because each one of us got the opportunity to observe various department of the clinic. As for me, I was able to observe doctors in some of the departments such as general medicine, physical therapy, pharmacy, ophthalmology, laboratory, allergology, dermatology, dentistry, and hospital. In addition, I was able to learn some materials of each department.

After I take ACC 221 and ACC 222, this semester I decide to take ACC 321. The name of the class is intermediate financial accounting. Before I took the class, I heard the class is the most difficult class among accounting class because of there is a lot of materials to cover in very short time. There are around 15 chapters to cover in a semester so that we have to learn a chapter in a week because we have to use some classes to take the exams and quizzes. And if I want to learn this course well and get a good grade as what I did in ACC221 and ACC222. I will have to read the book, listen to the teacher carefully, do the quiz well, prepare for the exam well and finish all the homework online. It is very important to