1. I plan on following my mentor all over the hospital and shadow her schedule and learn about different types of invasive procedures of the heart and coronary arteries and eventually start to assist her.
2. Oralia Aragon, my mentor, has agreed to let me shadow her and during the process, we go to every floor looking for patients on her roster that need attention. Before we enter the room, she briefs me on what is wrong with patient and what it means in simpler form. When we enter the room, she introduces me and then she goes through with the patient the things they need to know. When we finish our round helping patients, she sits me down in her office and she has me look at angiograms. Angiograms are x-rays of the coronary arteries using a dye that shows up in the blood stream. I look for legions or clots and look at the final comments the doctors have said pertaining to the angiogram and see if my findings match theirs and go back for correction.
3. Following a nurse practitioner that works in Pulmonary functions lab is already a great qualification as a mentor. Doing check ups on the patients is even a learning opportunity for people who have had invasive coronary surgery.
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